Liverpool coach, Jurgen Klopp has come out to hail German and Bundesliga duo, Timo Werner and Kai Havertz.
Klopp recently revealed that it is a pity LFC could not sign Werner because the coronavirus pandemic has affected his team’s ability to compete in the transfer market.
According to him, the pandemic has interrupted regular activities at the club and they had to pay the price by watching Timo join a rival club.
He added that things will be more quiet at Liverpool because most clubs have taken a massive hit on their income amid the outbreak.
His words, “There are a lot of good players on this planet,”
“Timo Werner is a great player, Kai Havertz is a great player.
“Right time, opportunity – everything has to come together. Six, seven weeks ago, we didn’t know if we could play again this year.
“If we hadn’t played the second half of the season, we would have thought, ‘OK, when can you really play football again?’ And now it starts right away.”
“There are all sorts of rumours in England about who Manchester United are going to pick, Chelsea are going to pick.
“It’s rather quiet here (at Liverpool) at the moment, I think it’s safe to say. If you want to take it seriously and run a normal business and depend on income and have no idea how much you will earn… especially because we don’t know when we can start playing with spectators again.
“At the moment, all clubs are losing money. Without spectators, we have to pay back the season tickets and probably sell none next year. At least maybe without the first 10 or 15 games. The VIP areas won’t be packed and the tickets won’t be sold. This will have an impact on other partners and things will look a bit different.
“Discussing with the players about things like salary waivers and on the other hand buying a player for £50-60m, we have to explain.”
On the restart, “We act as if everything is already settled. It’s not settled. We use this little loophole we’ve been left to play football again.
“Everything else we have to see the moment it happens. We can’t pretend now that everything’s going to be fine in the future.”
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