Jurgen Klopp leaves door open to further Liverpool transfers before deadline

New signing? Watford winger Ismaila Sarr is among the targets being considered
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David Lynch18 September 2020

Jurgen Klopp has left the door open to the possibility of Liverpool making further signings before the transfer window closes.

The Premier League champions are set to confirm their second acquisition of the summer on Friday, Thiago Alcantara joining from Bayern Munich in a deal worth up to £25m.

And they remain in the market for further reinforcements, with Watford winger Ismaila Sarr among the targets being considered - as revealed by Standard Sport last month.

A move for the Senegal international could wait until October 16, the deadline for domestic transfers in England, while signings from foreign clubs would have to be completed by October 5.

And so, with plenty of time remaining, Klopp is relaxed about the Reds’ ability to dip into the market if and when it is deemed necessary.

Asked about the prospect of adding more players, the German replied: “The window itself leaves the window open because it’s open until October 6 and longer in one way, I think. That’s all but it was always the same.

“I cannot promise we will do something, but I cannot say it’s 100 per cent sure that we don’t do anything.

“It’s a developing situation so anything could happen until October 6. A player [could] come to me and ask me, ‘Look, I want to go’.

“I don’t expect that but it could happen and then we have to react and all these kind of things.”

It was initially thought that Liverpool would only make their move for Thiago in the event of departures from what appears on paper to be a bloated squad.

But, while Standard Sport understands that the Reds remain confident of shifting a number of fringe players whose prospects of playing time look slim before the deadline, Klopp has insisted that a sell-to-buy approach isn’t always necessary at Anfield.

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He added: “It’s about timing. Sometimes you buy before you sell, sometimes you sell before you buy. There are different scenarios.

“Sometimes you don’t buy now but buy later when you sell later and sometimes you earn the money back in different ways.

“The only thing that is always true for us: what we earn with football, we spend in football. That’s the club; it’s probably a pretty short summary of the philosophy but that’s one of the key points.

“We cannot just say, ‘so now this year we need this and that’ - if we cannot afford it I will not insist on it.

“But we work constantly on improvement, that’s what we constantly do. Sometimes people like it and sometimes they like it later.”

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