Man City fury over Jurgen Klopp jibes turns Liverpool FC rivalry even uglier

Jurgen Klopp got one thing right when he spoke to reporters on Friday.

He said Manchester City would not like what he was going to say and they didn't. Not one bit.

The Liverpool manager had been asked how his team can keep up with the Premier League champions following the signing of Erling Haaland, the goalscoring phenomenon who has started incredibly since his £51m summer move. Adding one of the best strikers in the world to one of the best teams is a pretty fearsome combination, in fairness.

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First, Klopp could have said nothing at all. Managers generally know when what they say will generate headlines, and choose when to feed the media cycle and when not to.

He could have pointed to the £64m signing of Darwin Nunez (rising to £85m with achievable add-ons) and the £400,000-a-week agreed to make Mo Salah the best-paid player in Liverpool's history. He could have questioned why his owners had not spent even more to strengthen the team and the squad, given that - as this excellent article goes into detail on - some would argue Fenway Sports Group appear to have paid more attention to maximising their profits than giving the club more spending power.

Instead, the German coach played into the tedious and factually incorrect narrative that City have spent years fighting, that somehow they have stacked the game in their favour. "Nobody can compete with City," he said, and went on to say that the Blues were one of three clubs in world football (the others being PSG and Newcastle, the only other teams with backing from Gulf states) that can "do what they want financially" and 'have no glass ceiling' while everyone else including Liverpool