Michael Owen asks Rio Ferdinand if he thinks Jurgen Klopp’s stupid in heated Liverpool row | Football | Sport

Ferdinand said that he did not, but felt that a change of policy was necessary despite the limited funds that the club may have if they fail to finish in the top four of the Premier League.

“I say hats off and well done for that [competing at the top level],” Ferdinand added. “But we’re talking from this moment now where it seems people are asking is this cycle over? How do they stay at this level they were so consistent at the last couple of years, are they gonna go and buy squad-fillers?”

Owen responded: “I don’t feel like they are doing that. The recent players they’ve bought, they’ve had three players approaching 30 – [Sadio] Mane, [Roberto] Firmino and [Mohamed] Salah. Everybody can see it’s coming, Jurgen Klopp can see it’s coming, so Jurgen Klopp’s like before it hits us square in the face we’ve got to start bringing some youngsters in.

“They’ve kept Salah, Mane was gonna go anyway – he wanted to go the year before and Liverpool did really well to keep him an extra year. He was going anyway and Firmino’s now going in the summer, so in Jota, in Diaz, in [Darwin] Nunez, they’ve actually refreshed that part of the pitch. That’s for the future, that’s hopefully signed off now for the next six, seven years.”

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