Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool's £40 million ($48 million) swoop for PSV Eindhoven forward Cody Gakpo will have an effect on his plans for the January transfer window.Klopp landed the highly-rated Gakpo during three days of negotiations with the 23-year-old's representatives over Christmas.Netherlands international Gakpo impressed at the World Cup in Qatar, prompting Liverpool to make their move before Manchester United could seal a deal for the rising star.
Another forward was not top of Klopp's list of priorities, with Liverpool's midfield still needing reinforcements.But the Reds boss was keen to keep Gakpo out of United's hands, even if he might now have less to spend in January. "I would say in principle it's like this for all people in the world: the money you spend has an impact on the money you can spend (in the future)," Klopp told reporters on Thursday."We know what we want to do and we will see if we can do it.
It's about money, of course, but it's more about how it always was, about the right players as we are really happy that we could get Cody."He is a young player with a lot of potential.
If he would have already been scoring 40 goals in Spain or whatever he would be unaffordable."These kind of things, it's all about timing.