Jurgen Klopp has insisted Liverpool will not be forced into a midfield signing that does not make sense.
The Liverpool boss has repeatedly stated that he believes the club’s transfer business this summer is over, despite calls for a big-money arrival in midfield.
Reports have suggested that the club are willing to wait until next summer to strengthen in the middle of the pitch though, even with Thiago, Curtis Jones and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain all currently ruled out of action.
However, while Klopp has admitted the situation has changed with a number of injuries in that position, he has no intention of bringing in a player that is not right for the club.
“It’s easy for us to bring a midfielder in, it’s not so easy to bring the right midfielder in - for money reasons and contractual reasons,” Klopp told Sky Sports. “Most of the time they go hand in hand.
“It’s not that we deny signing a player if they have a problem with injuries. It’s a different season to the beginning of the pre-season, when everybody told me we needed a new midfielder - it was about the kind of midfielder. And it’s a completely different discussion - we didn’t need a new kind of midfielder.
“But if the right midfielder would have been available, we would have gone there as well. Now the situation changed slightly, that’s true. But it can only be about the right midfielder, that’s not easy.
“It’s because it’s 2022 and people have contracts for four, five six years - and that’s why we have to be calm and solve the problems with the boys we have.”
