I'm hopeful it's not a flat 'No', but more a case of 'The options we've looked at so far don't work for one reason or another but we're still looking and will say Yes if the right deal turns up.' I don't believe Gordon, Edwards and Henry are just sitting on their luxury yachts counting their money and telling Klopp to fuck off. The situation looks bad to us as fans because we're in the dark about what exactly they are doing, who they are talking to, why the options presented so far don't work. All we've got to go on is newspaper tittle-tattle.
I agree - they're not sitting on their luxury yachts to my knowledge - if they are, that's entirely their province. They do, so we're told, seem to be telling Klopp "No" however. Klopp's spoken as openly as he ever has to date on that subject. I'll take out everything but direct quotes.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/jurgen-klopp-liverpool-defender-transfer-23370437“I am not a five-year-old kid any more and if I don’t get what I want I start crying.
“Most of the time in my life I didn’t get what I wanted, so pretty much used to that. We talk about a centre-half, and yes, it would help 100 percent.
“But I cannot spend the money. I don’t make these decisions. There are people who are responsible for the whole thing, and I cannot make their decisions.”
“When I say this, I know of course what we would do in an ideal world, but the world is not ideal,”
“So we have to deal with the situation.
"We have improve with this squad - that’s my job, not sitting here and being disappointed or frustrated with some decisions. I think that would be read as an excuse and we don’t need that.
“It’s not a situation you want, but it’s a situation. And if you aren’t happy with a situation then work. That’s what we do. We believe 100% we can change that with this squad.” Make of that what you will folks. You can argue whatever you like, but if you're me, it looks like:
- the manager thinks a centre half would help - 100 percent
- the manager has 'talked about' that solution with unnamed people
- a decision has been taken somewhere saying that no money can be spent
- the manager doesn't think that's ideal
- the manager is getting on with it regardless.
This is arguably the best manager in world football. He's assembled a squad that's among the best in world football. We speculate about whether he'll want to further extend his stay with us at Liverpool or head off into the sunset.
So yeah - for me, do things for the manager that he thinks are ideal, especially when he's performed minor miracles to date. And doubly so when the decisions that no money can be spent aren't applied elsewhere, no matter how small the fee might be in comparative terms. We've signed two high profile kids since the window opened as I understand it. If there's a business case for that, I'm at a loss to understand why they can't see the one for the senior squad being reinforced, even in a rudimentary short term way, given the prize money and knock on impacts at stake.
