Klopp: If I don't want a player, he will not come to Liverpool

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Klopp: If I don't want a player, he will not come to Liverpool - Jurgen Klopp insists he has no issue with the way Liverpool’s transfer strategy is implemented and reiterated he will have the final say on any incomings or outgoings at the club.

Upon his unveiling in October, the 48-year-old was clear that he had “the first and the last word on transfers” when questioned about recruitment.

Former manager Brendan Rodgers, who claimed the same when he was appointed, shared some insight on the dealings of Liverpool’s transfer committee over the weekend, revealing if he wanted a player that was not on a list of targets, he could not sign him.

The Northern Irishman stated business was more of a group decision than his sole choice.

However, Klopp is not fussed about the collaborative element of buying and selling at Liverpool, and maintained that no player he doesn’t rate will end up working under him at Melwood.

“I don’t know if anyone ever has the total say anywhere,” he explained at the training complex on Tuesday afternoon.

“If we want to take, for example, Zlatan Ibrahimovic I don’t know what his price he is at the moment, but he’s 34 and you would have to pay £100m for example so I would think I’d need to ask before signing him.

“I said from the first day when I came in here, that it’s like how I used to work. Sometimes, my staff and myself have an idea with a player we know, we heard about, we saw, we heard about whatever and we get some information on him.

“It’s not my job then to cut videos or things like this, and then there players our scouts bring in and say look at this - we’ve heard about him, we’ve seen him, we’ve watched him for a long time and we discuss this. In the end, it’s like I said in the first press conference, if I don’t want a player to come here, then he will not come.