Jurgen Klopp reveals Liverpool are 'still looking' at transfer market but reiterates happiness with squad

Jurgen Klopp will not sign players for Liverpool if they are not deemed an improvement on what he already has
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David Lynch24 July 2019

Jurgen Klopp has revealed that Liverpool are still on the lookout for potential reinforcements this summer.

But the German insists he is content to go into the new season with the squad he currently has at his disposal if the right players cannot be found.

Despite record revenues and their status as European champions, the Reds have made just one signing during the current transfer window - the £1.3million acquisition of teenager defender Sepp van den Berg from PEC Zwolle.

Klopp admits that he and Liverpool's recruitment staff are still looking to add, with a defender capable of providing back-up to Andy Robertson believed to be among their targets.

However, the manager has no interest in making signings that do not represent an improvement on what he already has.

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“We are still looking, but it will not be the [biggest] transfer window of LFC,” he told the Liverpool Echo. “It just will be a transfer window.

“We will see what we do, and if we haven't done anything by the end it will be for different reasons.

"It's about using this team. In the transfer window, you have to build a team that you think you want to go into the season with. But I have that team already.

“If we can bring somebody else in that makes it even better, we will see. But if not, this team is already there. And again we will have to find solutions at different moments.

“We have to find solutions during the season. Yes, you find sometimes the solution in the transfer market and we have done that. I don't have to name the players, everybody knows.

“But otherwise you have to find the solutions on the training ground and that's what we do now.”

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Klopp has been criticised for suggesting that fit-again players such as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Rhian Brewster are akin to new signings.

But the Reds boss doubled down on that assertion, adding: “Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain... come on. Fit... if that's not a new signing, then I don't know.

“To buy him, after the impression we got when he played for us, what do we think the price would be to buy that level of player?

“Rhian Brewster, Joe Gomez, Adam Lallana, it's all clear. We have these players, now we have to use them.

“If they are playing, then good. If not, then they have to push the others. That's how it should be. That's how good squads work, and that's what we believe in.”

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