Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has defended his teams’ inactivity in the transfer market, saying that big teams have always had stability rather than flashy new additions.
The only new players on Klopp’s staff for the season are teenage defender Sepp van den Berg and backup goalkeeper Adrian, as he kept faith with the men that took the Reds to Champions League glory last term.
The German coach said that the performance in last weekend’s Community Shield, where Liverpool drew with rivals Manchester City over 90 minutes before being defeated in a penalty shootout, was evidence his squad is ready to challenge in the Premier League and Europe next season
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“The big teams of the past – and I don’t say we are a big team now, that will be decided in a couple of years – they stay together for a number of years,” Klopp told the media ahead of Liverpool’s Premier League opener with Norwich City on Friday.