{"id":587,"date":"2016-08-12T13:59:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2016-08-12T13:59:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:59:26","slug":"liverpool-football-club-transfer-rumour-round-up-august-12th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/liverpool-football-club-transfer-rumour-round-up-august-12th-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Football Club Transfer Rumour Round-Up: August 12th 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
For those of you that haven\u2019t read one of my transfer pieces before and you\u2019re only here for the gossip, then you might want to skip to the bottom of the page. I\u2019d hope that you\u2019d stick around, though, as I like to put something of an opinion piece about what\u2019s gone on over the past week in the bit before I talk about the players we\u2019re almost certainly not going to sign\u2026<\/p>\n
Obviously most of what\u2019s gone on this week has been about the build-up to Sunday. At the time of writing we\u2019re just over 48 hours from the start of the new Premier League season and our match against Arsenal. I may well touch on that, but there are one or two other things that I think need a mention before we turn to our impending battle with the Gunners as well as the rumours of our ins and outs.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s genuinely bizarre how many Liverpool fans seem to be obsessed with the notion of J\u00fcrgen Klopp not having bought well enough in this transfer window. So many football supporters in general seem to fixate on the idea that money solves all problems. That\u2019s kind of understandable; after all, it\u2019s what the press have been telling us for years.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s odd, though, is that Klopp has made absolutely clear that that is not how he likes to work. Here\u2019s a quote from him:<\/p>\n
\u201dOther clubs can go out and spend more money and collect top players, yes. But if you bring one player in for \u00a3100million or whatever, and he gets injured, then it all goes through the chimney. Do I have to do it differently to that? Actually, I want to do it differently. I would even do it differently if I could spend that money. I want a special team spirit \u2013 I don\u2019t feel it is necessary, I want it.\u201d<\/p>\n