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Chris Rock once said that men are only as faithful as their options. Similarly, football managers generally only get morally huffy about the disgraceful and distorting amounts of money in the game when they don’t have any money themselves. Or at least when the teams they’re supposed to be competing against have more money than them. So we can’t really be too critical of Jürgen Klopp for saying, when belts were a little tighter at Anfield a few years ago: “Other clubs can go out and spend more money and collect top players, yes … Do I have to do it differently to that? Actually, I want to do it differently. I would even do it differently if I could spend that money … You can’t say at the end: ‘Only 11 best players will play together and let’s see what happens.’ The day that this is football, I’m not in a job any more.”

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