Liverpool will sign players that I want - Klopp

Jurgen Klopp insists he has no issue with the way
Liverpool’s transfer strategy is implemented and reiterated
he will have the final say on any incomings or outgoings at
the club.

Upon his unveiling in October, the 48-year-old was clear that
he had “the first and the last word on transfers” when
questioned about recruitment.

Former manager Brendan Rodgers, who claimed the same
when he was appointed, shared some insight on the dealings of Liverpool’s transfer committee over the weekend, revealing if he wanted a player that was not on a list of targets, he could not sign him.

The Northern Irishman stated business was more of a group
decision than his sole choice.

However, Klopp is not fussed about the collaborative
element of buying and selling at Liverpool, and maintained
that no player he doesn’t rate will end up working under him
at Melwood.

“I don’t know if anyone ever has the total say anywhere,” he
explained at the training complex on Tuesday afternoon.

“If we want to take, for example, Zlatan Ibrahimovic I don’t
know what his price he is at the moment, but he’s 34 and
you would have to pay £100m for example so I would think
I’d need to ask before signing him.

“I said from the first day when I came in here, that it’s like
how I used to work. Sometimes, my staff and myself have
an idea with a player we know, we heard about, we saw, we
heard about whatever and we get some information on him.

“It’s not my job then to cut videos or things like this, and
then there players our scouts bring in and say look at this -
we’ve heard about him, we’ve seen him, we’ve watched him
for a long time and we discuss this. In the end, it’s like I said
in the first press conference, if I don’t want a player to come
here, then he will not come.

“If the player I want doesn’t fit our budget, then he will not
come too. It is absolutely normal. There is nothing for me to
be surprised about, it’s a normal situation.”