Fenway Sports Group are looking for new shareholders at the club, unlikely to completely relinquish their influence, but happy to sell a controlling stake.
Any sale would bring with it uncertainty for Klopp as manager, but he is not worried, looking forward to seeing what happens and hopefully having more spending power to compete with Manchester City.
‘In the structure we had we were obviously able to spend money but we always had to look and say: “What did we earn?”’ he said. ‘That was always the situation.
‘The two biggest transfers we did in the past with Ali [Alisson] and Virg [Virgil van Dijk], we all know how it happened. We got some money from Barcelona [£142m for Philippe Coutinho] and spent it wisely, I would say.
‘How we did it so far brought us to where we are, fine, but fresh money is no mistake, let me say it like this. Nothing gets cheaper. There is the inflation rate for all of us and in football as well. Sometimes you have to spend.
‘We are really happy, really happy, to give all our young kids a chance. I am so positive about the impact they will have in the future whenever that starts. Like Harvey [Elliott] now, Stefan [Bajcetic], Calvin [Ramsay], Ben Doak, Bobby Clark – really interesting. They all are. But from time to time you have to throw in proven quality. And in an ideal world, they are young as well and not 35.
‘From time to time you have to take some risk and we will see. I have no idea what will happen but I am positive about it. If in the end it is not positive, then I can start worrying, but I just think everything will be fine.’
Klopp’s assistant Pep Lijnders said he and the German are not naive to the possibility that new owners could want a change in management, but is not worried about that potential situation.
‘Of course, when we signed the deal [at Liverpool], it was with them [FSG] but we are not naive to not think football doesn’t change,’ Lijnders said. ‘But, I have so much respect for them.’
He added: ‘Everybody who knows us as a club knows we have a strong relationship with the [current] owners.
‘I always know the owners act in best interests of the club and always have done. The statement was very clear.
‘You are just speculating. Statement was clear. It’s nothing new for a club to try to find new investors. For me, they are good owners.’
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