Jurgen Klopp has said he sticks by comments he made when Manchester United signed Paul Pogba in 2016.
Speaking after United secured Pogba's return from Juventus three years ago, Klopp said he would walk away from management if it became the norm for clubs to regularly spend big sums of money on individual players in the transfer market.
"If you bring one player in for £100million and he gets injured, then it all goes through the chimney," Klopp said after United secured Pogba's return three years ago. "The day that this is football, I'm not in a job anymore, because the game is about playing together."
Since making those comments Liverpool have signed Fabinho for £40million, Naby Keita for £54million, Alisson for £66million and Virgil van Dijk for £75million.
When Klopp was asked in an interview with German TV if his opinion on transfer fees have changed now Liverpool are spending big money with regularity, he said: "Liverpool is an ambitious club and if we didn't spend the same amount of money as others, we wouldn't be able to compete. Everybody's splashing the cash, so we have to do the same.
"Back when I was in Germany, Bayern had a bottomless pit of money, like £100m. In today's market, that gets you one centre-back. So this bottomless pit of money is enough to buy one player in today's world and that doesn't even cover their wages.
"The market has changed more than I expected, but I stand by what I said over the Pogba transfer. Maybe things were lost in translation but my point was, if we reach a point where football is solely about money and not football, then I'm leaving; and I still feel the same way about it."
