Klopp ‘fine’ after explaining Liverpool’s Alex Teixeira failure

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists he is “fine” having made no major January signings after baulking at Shaktar Donetsk’s valuation of Alex Teixeira.
The Reds, who brought in Marko Grujic earlier in January, were locked in extensive talks over a deal for the Brazilian, before being priced out by by the Ukrainian club.
The Reds manager claims the Reds do have money to spend but that they want to “work respectfully and responsibly” – which does not mean paying £53million for a Brazilian untested in Europe’s biggest leagues.
“It’s very important that you can trust us. It was a common decision on Teixeira,” said Klopp, making it clear that the whole transfer committee was in agreement.
“We said we can’t play this game until the end. We made offers, I won’t say too much about that, but they were realistic with the plusses of it being January, the Premier League, all the plusses you have when you make negotiations. But it was a case of: ‘If you don’t want it, OK, we can’t change the situation, both for now and the future’.
“It’s not that we haven’t got money but you have to work respectfully and responsibly. That’s what we do.
“It is not like you should buy and sell, buy and sell. In my opinion, usually I make a one-year contract with the players. I know they have longer contracts, but I say: ’Yes, if you don’t play the biggest rubbish in your life, I will trust you, you have to trust me.’
“And after a year, maybe he wants somewhere else, maybe I want him to go somewhere else. That’s football.
“Now in the middle of the season, I have been here for four months and nothing has happened on transfers. I am fine with that and we can go on working.”
Teixeira himself appeared calm at the failure to sign for Liverpool this month, though this alleged snapchat which appeared on Monday evening was in fact a fake.