Jurgen Klopp has insisted that Champions League qualification won’t have any impact on Liverpool’s abilities to persuade potential transfer targets to join the club this summer.
Liverpool currently sit fifth in the table, a point behind Manchester United and three points behind Newcastle United. However, both clubs possess a game in hand on the Reds, meaning Klopp’s men need either team to drop points if they are to stand any chance of finishing in the top four.
Set to undergo a major midfield revamp this summer, Liverpool have already withdrawn from the race to sign Jude Bellingham in favour of adding multiple new arrivals.
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And while a lack of Champions League football will make things more difficult for the Reds financially in the future, Klopp has insisted it will have little influence over transfer talks Liverpool hold with players and their ability to attract players to Anfield.
“It is not about that (Champions League football),” the German told reporters. “When I talk to a player, if I am allowed to talk to the player which is rarely the case to be honest, but in the moment where you are allowed to talk, you realise in his eye, but then it is already clarified.
“We cannot tell anybody in the moment that we will definitely be in the Champions League next year. So if he is talking to us then it is probably already clear that he knows about that situation.
“It is just a general thing. I think if you join a club, it’s not that you want to reach something together with the club or not. What the club created before is one thing.
“It is obvious that we have to fight for being part of the Champions League and to fight for trophies and if you want to be part of that you are more than welcome.
“There is only one thing which we cannot guarantee this year and that is Champions League football but all the rest is still the same as it was before. It is a fantastic club with a really, really good football team and an even better one, hopefully, probably, next year. That’s not so difficult.
“I have barely faced a situation where you are in talks with a player, everything sounds great, then at the end he says, ‘Okay, now see you if…’ That happens, not really often.
“It is still Liverpool, we are really attractive for a lot of players and should not forget that. That’s why I’m not concerned by that fact.
“Everything is more difficult without Champions League, that is how it is. Especially in the long term, we should not do these kind of things more often.
“But apart from that, it’s absolutely okay the situation we are in. From a talking point of view and a convincing point of view.”
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