Jurgen Klopp has admitted Liverpool are unlikely to sign any players in January after letting slip that the club is not currently working on any deals.
Ibrahima Konate was Liverpool 's only signing of the summer, which followed on from the reactive budget arrivals of Ozan Kabak and Ben Davies last winter in response to Klopp's centre-back injury crisis.
But that hasn't stopped the Reds from continuing to be linked with players, with reports overseas earlier this week suggesting the they had even bid £10m for Poland international Kacper Kozłowski.
However, club insiders have dismissed such speculation, with manager Klopp hinting it’s likely to be a similar case of another quiet transfer window this January, when confirming that a player’s covid vaccine status would now have to come into consideration and could potentially scupper future deals when Liverpool weigh up their list of targets.
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“I got this question asked in the last press conference and didn’t think about it to be honest,” Klopp told reporters when asked what a lack of covid certification could mean for transfers.
“It was probably my fault because we are obviously not close to signing a player so I didn’t think about it but since then I have thought about it and, yes, it will be influential. Definitely.
“In a situation like this now, let’s take our situation now, if a player is not vaccinated at all, he is a constant threat for all of us.
“He doesn’t want to be a threat, of course. It’s not that he thinks, 'oh my god, I don’t care about the others', but he is.
“So we have to find different scenarios. So he has to change in a different dressing room. He has to eat in a different dining room. He has to sit in a different bath. He has to drive to wherever in a different car.
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“From an organisational point of view it’s a real mess. It’s a real mess. If you really want to follow the protocols, it’s incredibly difficult to do.
“If one gets covid and he was, in the last four days, around him, he will be in isolation. If we have to travel to a country to play European football, we come back and he has to get himself isolated. All of these kinds of things.
“Of course it will be influential. We’d have to do all these kind of things like building extra buildings for unvaccinated players. It will not happen so hopefully not.
“Hopefully it will not be necessary in the future.”
