Liverpool boss Klopp on buying new midfielder: We have more injuries, but... | OneFootball

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has again insisted a new midfield arrival isn't a priority.

The Reds already find themselves limited in this department having suffered injury blows to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Curtis Jones and Thiago Alcantara, leading to many supporters demanding the club to recruit in this area.

Klopp said, "It's not that we deny signing a player if we have a problem with injuries, for example, but it is a complete different situation to the beginning of the pre-season when everybody told me we needed a new midfielder and that was about the kind of midfielder. That is a completely different discussion. We didn't need a different kind of midfielder but if the right midfielder would have been available, we would have gone then as well.

"Now the situation has changed slightly: we have more injuries, that's true. But it can still only be about the right [player] and that is not easy. It is nothing to do with that it is now August already and at the end of August, the transfer window closes.

"It's just because it is 2022 and people have contracts until 2024, 2025 or 2026, that's the situation and that's why we have to be calm and sort our problems with the boys we have. It's all about solutions and only one of these solutions is the transfer market, all the other solutions are here."