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Jurgen Klopp says the spending power of Liverpool’s Premier League rivals doesn’t bother him as he insisted: “I want to do it differently.”

The Reds have brought in six new signings this summer at a cost of around £65million with Marko Grujic also arriving following the £5.1million move he agreed back in January.

Liverpool have recouped around £40million in sales and their outlay is set to be dwarfed by the likes of Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United, who are all working on bumper deals which far exceed the Reds’ most extravagant purchase – the £30million swoop for Southampton’s Sadio Mane.

However, Klopp is adamant he isn’t jealous of the cash being splashed by Pep Guardiola, Antonio Conte and Jose Mourinho.

“If you bring one player in for £100million or whatever and he gets injured then it all goes through the chimney,” Klopp said.

“The day that this is football, I’m not in a job any more, because the game is about playing together. That is why somebody invented passes so these players can play together. It’s not about running with the ball because you can do it all the time.

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“Building the group is not my unique idea – it is necessary to be successful in football.

“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.

“I don’t know exactly how much money we could spend because nobody has told me up to this point ‘no, no, no you can’t do this’. If I spend money it is because I am trying to build a real team.

“You can win championships, you can win titles. But maybe there is a manner in which you want it. It is about how it is.”

United are working on a world record £100million deal for Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba, while City will have to break the £50million mark to land Everton defender John Stones.

Chelsea have already spent big on Leicester’s N’Golo Kante and Marseille’s Michy Batshuayi and are now pursuing £40million-rated Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly.

Klopp’s success at Borussia Dortmund was based on developing world class talent rather than buying it and he’s sticking to that approach at Anfield.

“If you all swim in the same pool, the pool is too small - you all go for the same players,” Klopp said.

“There are a lot of players outside that pool - good players on to the next step in their career. We try to find them.

“The best player of the last season is good to know but it is more interesting trying to find out who will be the best next year.

“If you knew it now that would be a really cool transfer! It would be much cheaper too. That is what we work for.

“It is not about being creative because creative is cool or something. It is about finding the players who can make the next step with us.”

Asked if he would ever do a deal like the Pogba one, Klopp added: “I’m not really interested in things from other clubs. They can do what they want and spend as much as they want.

“I don’t know exactly how much we have spent so far. For five or six players we could have bought one player for the same money but I don’t care.

“I have no influence on what other clubs do so why should I think about it? I am not the moral guardian of the league. I won’t say ‘oh, come on, that’s too much money’.

“We’ve spent a lot of money. It’s all about perspective. I am pretty sure it will stop somewhere.

“(Gonzalo) Higuain! (who went from Napoli to Juventus for £75.3million). Whatever. Where there is money somebody else will take it.

That’s how it is in the football business. It’s not my problem.

“If we are convinced someone is the right player then we think about money. Then we have the price, then we have to ask and work at it.

“Is this something we should do? If we agree then we will do it but only then for the right price.”

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