Klopp has warned that he will not be making wholesale changes to his Liverpool squad this summer, citing Chelsea as an example of how accelerated rebuilds can go wrong in the transfer
the Reds manager has intimated that his meeting with club owner John W Henry this week was not to specifically outline his budgetary demands
Jürgen Klopp:
"[The meeting with Henry] was good, he is a good guy,"
"I find it really funny what the expectations are on a talk like this that I sit there and put my ideas on the table and John says: 'How much is this? How much is that?' It is not like this.
We have a really good relationship and he is a really good guy who cares a lot about us and we will do business. I don't understand, football is crazy - it was always crazy - but everybody expects 'OK Liverpool is not doing well, so they need five, six or seven players bringing in'.
"I feel a little bit for Chelsea to be honest, because it’s not going well, I think they’re a top, top team, but on the other side it's good to see that you cannot just bring top players together and think it works out.
"You have to build a team and that’s what the guys there underestimated and gave their coaches a nearly impossible job to do.
"You cannot have two dressing rooms, you cannot train on two pitches, you have to create relationships, you have to create team spirit, and that’s the only reason why I’m a little bit happy about it."
Klopp added: "Chelsea will be fine in the end and they will be incredibly strong next year, but I’m using them just as an example. At the highest level, no, we cannot do it like that. And that’s what we will not do.
"You have to bring in the right players and build a new team. This team wrote a sensational story and now we start a new one, that’s it. How many players? We will see. We will see."
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