Jurgen Klopp namechecks three players Liverpool would have signed if they had 'unlimited' money

Jurgen Klopp has named the three players Liverpool would have signed if they had unlimited transfer funds.

Although Klopp did spend big on the likes of Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker, they had the lowest net spend out of the "big six" since his arrival in October 2015.

Liverpool boasted a net spend of £346 million, comfortably below the likes of Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea.

The figure makes Klopp's work at Liverpool that much more impressive after he won one Premier League, two Carabao Cups and one FA Cup, as well as going neck-and-neck with City at the top.

But Klopp has admitted that he would have sought three high-profile signings if money was no object for Liverpool, mentioning Kylian Mbappe, Jude Bellingham and Erling Haaland.

"Can you imagine LFC as the club with unlimited money?” Klopp said at a farewell event at the M&S Bank Arena, as per The Guardian.

“Imagine Kylian Mbappé came here. Imagine Bellingham came here, Haaland. It is not us, it just does not fit. We won what we won and we did it the Liverpool way. We had hard conversations and other clubs didn’t do that in the same time."

Klopp then praised Liverpool's Fenway Sports Group owners for the approach they took and how he always "felt supported" during his time on Merseyside.

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He added: “We built two new stands, a new training ground, we bought Melwood back – the dumbest idea I ever heard was that we sold it in the first place. The owners do what owners do. Surprise! The owners want to earn money. Sorry to tell you that. It’s not like they earn money on a daily basis: they invest something and that’s how the whole world goes.

“We should be really happy that we have these owners and not guys who bought London clubs and other stuff. I wouldn’t have survived a year at Liverpool (with them in charge). ‘Great development but not good enough, sack him!’ A year later: ‘Sack him’. Then finally they play football where people think they might be back and they sack the manager anyway. People always think the grass is greener but we have owners who really feel responsible for the club and work really hard as well to be successful. I felt supported. We did it as good as we could have done and I’m fine with it.”

Klopp, who finished with a 60% win ratio at Liverpool, is now set for a considerable rest period after running out of energy.