Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has defended the signing of Alisson over Slovenian Jan Oblak. Klopp claimed that Oblak would have costed another £20 million. The German manager said, “Everybody thinks it’s a lot of money. It is a lot of money, but he could’ve left for crazy money.
Klopp said, “The clause for Oblak for example is 100m euros (£89m), so nice! The goalkeeper market is different because it’s not each year that there is anybody available. We didn’t know exactly if Alisson is available or not, but from a specific moment we realised obviously he is available and that’s the moment when we decided we want to go for him.”
Klopp added, “We are really fine with our goalkeepers. So there’s no doubts (about) Simon Mignolet – big quality, absolutely Premier League highest-level quality, Loris Karius as well. Yes, we all know what happened in the final, but we know as well why it’s not about that. It’s not the reason (for signing Alisson). We really wanted to bring in a player which we didn’t have before to be honest and that’s what happened with Alisson.”
Liverpool’s Premier League campaign begins on August 9th against West Ham at Anfield.
