'I was wrong' - Jurgen Klopp makes Manchester United U-turn after transfer criticism

Jurgen Klopp has admitted he was wrong after insisting Liverpool would never sign a player for £100million.

The Liverpool boss made a stance on big-money signings after Manchester United brought Paul Pogba back to Old Trafford in 2016. Now, the Merseyside club are set to splash £110m on Moises Caicedo from Brighton & Hove Albion.

Klopp said back in 2016: “If you bring one player in for £100m or whatever and he gets injured then it all goes through the chimney. The day that this is football, I’m not in a job anymore, because the game is about playing together.

"That is why somebody invented passes so these players can play together. It’s not about running with the ball because you can do it all the time.

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“Building the group is not my unique idea – it is necessary to be successful in football. Other clubs can go out and spend more money and collect top players, yes. Do I have to do it differently to that? I don’t know exactly how much money we could spend because nobody has told me up to this point ‘no, no, no you can’t do this’.

"If I spend money it is because I am trying to build a real team. You can win championships, you can win titles. But maybe there is a manner in which you want it. It is about how it is.”

However, the Liverpool boss has now U-turned on that stance, admitting the market has changed far more than he could have anticipated. He now concedes his comments were wrong.

"Everything changed. Do I like it? No. Did I realise I was wrong? Yes," he