Jurgen Klopp's past comments have come back to bite him on the backside after Liverpool reached an £110 million agreement to sign Moises Caicedo.
The Brighton midfielder had been courted by Chelsea all summer, with the Blues having all of their bids rejected.
And just days before they meet at Stamford Bridge in their first Premier League game of the season, Liverpool have outbid Chelsea - smashing the British-transfer record in the process.
The Ecuador international is set to undergo a medical on Friday and become Liverpool's third midfield addition, reuniting with Alexis Mac Allister and linking up with Hungary captain Dominik Szoboszlai.The deal for the 21-year-old will eclipse the fees Liverpool paid for the likes of Darwin Nunez, Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker but Klopp has been called out for double standards.
In 2016, Klopp was highly critical of Manchester United's £89 million capture of Paul Pogba, going on record to say that, "the day that this is football, I'm not in a job anymore".
Speaking in a press conference, Klopp said: "If you bring one player in for £100m and he gets injured, then it all goes through the chimney.
"The day that this is football, I'm not in a job anymore, because the game is about playing together.
"Other clubs can go out and spend more money and collect top players. I want to do it differently. I would even do it differently if I could spend that money."Klopp's comments have emerged every time Liverpool have splashed the cash on a new signing and lead to him being panned online.
And of course it is the case again with Caicedo, who is line to become the most expensive player in Premier League history after Chelsea's £106 million capture of Enzo Fernandez earlier this year.
In 2019, the former Borussia Dortmund manager defended his comments and stood by them, trying to explain his point further.
"The market has changed more than I expected, but I stand by what I said over the Pogba transfer," Klopp told German TV when his opinion on hefty transfer fees had changed.
"Maybe things were lost in translation but my point was, if we reach a point where football is solely about money and not football, then I'm leaving; and I still feel the same way about it."
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