and that he and his bosses were sometimes obliged to pay big fees in order to sign players that can help the club continue challenging for trophies.
Of course, one could argue that the transfer market has been out of control for some time now, because of 'The Neymar Effect', with Paris Saint-Germain's genuinely shocking decision to meet the €222m ) buy-out clause in the Brazilian's Barcelona contract - something the Blaugrana understandably considered unthinkable - creating
It's worth noting that nearly all of those deals proved disastrous, primarily because they made no sense.However, what we're seeing now is different, even more illogical. Indeed, asillustrates with the ridiculous deals listed below, in 2023, inexperienced, unproven players are moving for mad money, meaning Klopp is quite correct: the transfer market has now completely lost its mind...