Pep Guardiola’s response to Jurgen Klopp’s remarks about player transfers

DBasia.news –  Ahead of the Community Shield which took place at Wembley, Sunday (4/8), between Manchester City versus Liverpool, began with a nerve war between two managers: Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola.

Guardiola responded firmly to Klopp’s comments discussing the transfer of players this summer. Klopp rated Liverpool can not shop players at will with a large transfer money every transfer market, like PSG and Manchester City.

“I can’t say anything about what the other team is doing. I don’t know how they do it. We have to pay the bill. Sorry, everyone has to pay the bill, we have to pay the bill,” Klopp said.

“We invested money in this team. Now it looks like we didn’t do it, but we are not in this fantasy world where you only get what you want. You can’t do it constantly,” he stressed.

“It seems that there are only four clubs in the world that can do that constantly – (Real) Madrid, Barcelona, ​​City, and PSG. Whatever they need, they buy. You cannot compare it. Such is the situation. That is not criticism. I know people will think so, that I’m jealous. I’m not jealous at all.”

Guardiola was disturbed by Klopp’s words. With the Liverpool slogan “you’ll never walk alone”, Guardiola has denied Klopp’s accusations about City being able to buy players whenever they want.

“Does that (Klopp’s comment) bother me? Of course, it bothers me because it’s not true that we spent 200 million pounds on every transfer market. This is absolutely not true,” Guardiola said, quoted by the Telegraph.

“So this is Liverpool – you’ll never walk alone – this is not a small team, this is Liverpool. So, of course, I don’t like it (Klopp’s comment) because this is indeed not true.”

Guardiola outlined in more detail the comparison of Liverpool and Man City transfers. When Liverpool spent 131 million pounds to recruit Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker, City only bought Riyad Mahrez last season and recruited Rodri this season.

Mahrez was recruited for £ 60 million after the club sold Angus Gunn, Jason Denayer, Pablo Maffeo and Joe Hart.

“Last season we spent £ 17 million (net number) on just one player (Mahrez). Two seasons ago when we spent a lot this happened because I took over a team with 10-11 players aged 30 years or more, so I had to do it,” Guardiola said.

“But we couldn’t spend more than 200 million pounds last season and can’t do it again this season, so it’s the same. We bought one player (Rodri) this summer and reactivated the purchase clause for Angelino and that’s the fact.”