It has been a summer of contrasting futures at the Merseyside. Everton have moved quickly and efficiently, snapping up 7 senior players in the off-season following the mega-money sale of Romelu Lukaku to Manchester United.
The blue contingent wasted no time in reinforcing the team, signing Jordan Pickford, Wayne Rooney and Cuco Martina just to name a few.
Liverpool, on the other hand, have faced set-back after set-back, ultimately failing to land any of their top transfer targets in Naby Keita and Virgil Van Dijk. This has obviously led to some contention between the rival fans, with Liverpool’s failure in the market jeered at by the Everton faithful.
When questioned upon the matter though, Klopp had this to say, “First of all, I’m not interested in what other clubs are doing until we play them. So they can make the best business or the worst business, I’m not in it.
“I don’t know why they do the things they do, that’s why I’m completely fine. Yes, I heard, of course a few things that they have done. Strikers, good. Wayne Rooney, you don’t have to talk about. The centre-half came. Good. So a lot of really good business.Klaassen. So it’s all good.
“But, at the end of the day, just like us, they can only line up 11 players. Then we have to see what will happen. But all the teams have tried to get stronger.
“With Everton, usually derbies are really close games. I don’t think we have gone into any of the last few derbies thinking: ‘It’s only Everton.’ No. There is a lot of respect and if they’ve done good business, well done. But when we face them we still want to win.”
