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Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool cannot compete with Emirates Marketing Project
Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool cannot compete with Emirates Marketing Project
Jürgen Klopp says it is impossible for Liverpool to compete with Emirates Marketing Project because they are unable to ‘act like them’ in the transfer market.
The Liverpool manager claimed football does not want to confront the reality that City’s financial power means keeping pace year after year is beyond their direct competitors.
“I heard now that at Saudi Sportswashing Machine somebody said 'there is no ceiling for this club'. Yes! He is right. He is absolutely right. There is no ceiling for Saudi Sportswashing Machine. Congratulations, but some other clubs have ceilings,” said Klopp.
Since Klopp arrived City's net spending stands at £693 million, with Liverpool's £372 million. Wages are roughly similar from the last available accounts – before Haaland arrived – with City's at £355 million a year and Liverpool's at £314 million. City, though, are top of the Deloitte Football Money League as the highest revenue generating club in the world, at £560 million, with Liverpool seventh on £478 million – a revelation that was greeted with incredulity at Anfield.
This summer, Liverpool's net spend was actually higher than City's, with Guardiola sanctioning the departure of Raheem Sterling to Chelsea, as well as allowing Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko to join Arsenal, in a bid to clear space for Haaland and Julián Álvarez. Liverpool, meanwhile, spent £85 million on Darwin Núñez to fill the hole left by Sadio Mané.