Jurgen Klopp insists there will be no mega-money transfers for Liverpool this summer and doubts whether the likes of Kylian Mbappe, Erling Haaland and Jadon Sancho will be on the move.
Clubs across Europe are still counting the cost of the coronavirus pandemic and having to play behind closed doors, meaning there is a lot less money available than there has been previously.
Liverpool have regularly been linked with the big-name trio but Klopp has always tried to play down the likelihood of the club breaking the bank to bring any of them to Anfield.
Even Manchester City’s regaining of the Premier League title from the Reds will not prompt a change in policy, with the prospect of failing to qualify for the Champions League reducing the money available to Klopp.
Asked what might be possible transfer-wise, the German, who believes much of the business will be done late in the window with clubs assessing their finances and Euro 2020 also to take place, said: “Not a lot.
“It depends on what happens if someone wants to leave, if we sell. We can never really plan early.
“Not playing Champions League doesn’t help obviously, but it’s not our biggest problem. The market will be really strange.
“I hear about really big money moves… is Kylian Mbappe going? Haaland? Sancho? I don’t see that happening a lot this summer because the football world is still not in the same place it was before.
“The situation is better than I would have thought a year ago but the financial situation is a year where everyone suffers.
“We will see how the market will develop but for sure it won’t be an early market.
“It’s not good if you don’t go to the Champions League, but there is still a chance and while there is a chance we should not speak about it as no chance.”