ESPN pundit makes comment on Jürgen Klopp’s £175m spending spree

Liverpool fans are made up with the way that their club has gone about strengthening and fortifying a good but not perfect team.

In Alisson, the Reds have a top class goalkeeper, in Fabinho a superb holding midfielder, in Naby Keïta a borderline world class box to box midfielder and in Xherdan Shaqiri, a lot more quality and pace on the bench.

Together, the four of them will cost Liverpool £175million and ESPN pundit Shaka Hislop believes that Klopp’s summer spending spree needs to be justified by a title challenge and not just a slight improvement on last season.

“If you’re talking about spending and spending being the precursor to winning stuff, then nobody’s spent more than Manchester City and Pep Guardiola,” Hislop told ESPN.

“I don’t think anybody’s squad is stronger, including Liverpool’s, than Manchester City’s. That’s just the reality of the situation.

“Now, the thing for me is, yes Jurgen Klopp has spent a lot of money and I think he’s had quite a honeymoon period without bringing home silverware.

“Yes, getting to the Champions League final eases some of those pressures that we were hearing around Christmas time last year about Jürgen Klopp and his spending and the media’s love of him etc, etc. But you put together that kind of run, I think it eases a whole lot of pressure.

The judgement on Liverpool will be how far they can push Manchester City. Whether they can win a cup, the FA Cup or League Cup or whatever it may be, I think it’s icing on the cake.

“Ultimately Liverpool will be again judged on pushing City domestically and if they can go deep, I don’t expect them to go as deep, in the Champions League this year. But they’ve got to, not just get out of the group stage, but get one or two rounds further in.”