There is method to Reds' £300m spending spree madness

FORMER Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was well-documented during his time at Anfield about his resistance to spending large sums of money on transfer fees.

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Klopp was famously quoted as saying: "If you bring one player in for $100 million or whatever and he gets injured then it all goes through the chimney."

“The day that this is football, I’m not in a job anymore.”

Klopp, of course, is no longer in the hot seat at the Reds, but even he's needed to change his tune as the Premier League champions have blown away their competitors during the current transfer window with a host of big-money signings, most notably Florian Wirtz.

The German international cost Liverpool an initial £100 million, topped up by a further £16 million in potential add-ons, which makes Wirtz's total package not only the most expensive player in Liverpool history, but the Premier League's priciest ever player too.

“I know that I once said that I’m out if we pay £100 million for a player.

But the world is changing. That’s just the way the market is. There’s no question about it, it’s an insane sum.”