Liverpool's transfer strategy will go beyond Bundesliga, hints Klopp
Jurgen Klopp has vowed that Liverpool’s summer transfer activity will not only focus on targets playing in the Bundesliga.
The former Borussia Dortmund manager has already finalised the signing of Schalke 04 centre-back Joel Matip and continues to be heavily linked with the likes of Bayern Munich's Mario Gotze and Cologne's Jonas Hector.
Klopp, however, has insisted that he will cast his net wider and not simply focus on targets from his homeland, where he spent the entirety of his career before arriving at Anfield last October.
“We see in Germany that clubs need to be afraid but I think not,” he told SPORT1, a German television channel. “I do not think that Liverpool has become more interesting for German players through me.”
“If we have an interest in a player we don’t require him because he’s German or plays in Germany. That would be nonsense. We look but not only in the Bundesliga.
“In fact we are really global at the start,” he added. “It is much more important not where the player comes from, but that it is the right player for us.”
Source: Independent
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