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In his comments about the spending power of rival teams, Klopp had said: “You have the best team in the world and you put in the best striker on the market, no matter what it costs, you just do it (City and Erling Haaland). What does Liverpool do? We cannot act like them. It is not possible. Not possible.

“There are three clubs in world football (City, Newcastle, PSG) who can do what they want financially. It’s legal and everything, fine, but they can do what they want. They will say ‘yeah but we have…’ but it’s exactly the fact. I heard now that at Newcastle somebody [sporting director Dan Ashworth] said ‘there is no ceiling for this club’. Yes! He is right. He is absolutely right. There is no ceiling for Newcastle. Congratulations, but other clubs have ceilings.”