Jürgen Klopp (ex-Liverpool manager)
October 2025

Klopp said he would “never, ever” have asked Liverpool’s board for a £450m window, noting that revenue growth and timing enabled the 2025 splurge on Florian Wirtz, Alexander Isak, Jeremie Frimpong, Milos Kerkez, Hugo Ekitike, Giovanni Leoni, and Giorgi Mamardashvili. Klopp contrasted constraints during his tenure with the current commercial uplift (kit deal, stadium) and insisted the issue was availability of funds at the time, not ambition. He framed City’s spending contextually, crediting competitive overachievement rather than lamenting Liverpool’s historical budgets