Jurgen Klopp reveals why Liverpool lost out on Moises Caicedo AND Romeo Lavia to Chelsea last summer… and insists they found their ‘top solution’

Jurgen Klopp has revealed the reasons why Liverpool failed to sign Moises Caicedo and Romeo Lavia in last summer’s transfer window.

The midfield duo both eventually ended up at Chelsea following mega-money moves, with Caicedo costing the Blues a whopping £115million and Lavia joining for £58m.

Liverpool were in the market to plug the gap left by Fabinho and skipper Jordan Henderson following their moves to Saudi Arabia as Klopp was keen on signing three players to help replace them.

But their attempts to sign Caicedo and Lavia fell flat on its face, with the pair snubbing the Merseyside club for west London and Klopp has revealed exactly why it played out the way it did.

‘We were ­interested in [Jude] Bellingham but realised it would not happen,’ Klopp said when outling his midfield rebuilding strategy. ‘The whole market for No 6s went up. Two No 6s left our club. 

Midfield duo Caicedo (left) and Lavia (right) ended up at Chelsea following mega-money moves

‘We thought we could maybe do Caicedo. We’d already done [Alexis] Mac Allister before. So we went in but he [Caicedo] had an emotional agreement already with Chelsea and Pochettino. Lavia had his own reasons.’

While it may have been a body-blow to miss out on the pair, Klopp insists there was a silver lining to it all and the club were able to find what was actually the best outcome for them.

‘Then we found our top solution,’ Klopp continued. 

‘We found Wataru [Endo]. All the time in our mind we had Stefan [Bajcetic]. It was not clear at that moment he was so badly injured he could not feature at all. 

‘We already knew Macca could play the position. Dom [Szoboszlai] was always on my radar. If one of the £100m [signings] had worked there’s no chance to do another. 

‘That’s what I meant when I said we are so lucky….