FSG may block Liverpool transfer after ‘£100m’ bagged – pundit
Liverpool may not do any business in January if the owners believe making the top four is an impossibility – despite the club reaching the money-spinning Champions League knockout stage.
That’s according to former Hibernian striker Tam McManus, speaking exclusively to Football Insider about the Reds’ need for fresh faces.
Liverpool lost 2-1 to Leeds United on Saturday (29 October), leaving them eight points off the top four.
McManus insists Liverpool need new players if they are to have any chance of playing Champions League football next season but fears FSG won’t give Jurgen Klopp any money to spend.
“It’s one of those, Liverpool need to reassess where they are in January,” McManus told Football Insider‘s Ben Wild.
“Do they have the money to go out and buy the players they might need to get them into the top four?
I’m not sure. We know how important that Champions League money is. It’s worth something like £100million to clubs who reach the later stages.
“If Liverpool don’t have that money next season, if it’s not guaranteed, then it makes it hard for them to do the business they need to do.
“If they are still in touching distance of the top four after the World Cup then maybe they will go for it and risk it but ther is a lot of competition now.
“If there is no chance of them making the top four by January, which may happen because they go to Tottenham before the break, then maybe the owners will say Klopp has nothing to spend in January.
“They are in a really difficult spot.”
Liverpool are next in Premier League action against Tottenham on Sunday (6 November).
Klopp’s side sit 9th in the Premier League.
In other news, Kieran Maguire has suggested that a new announcement proves Liverpool ‘hold their owns fans in contempt’.