Jurgen Klopp's comments from when Paul Pogba re-joined Manchester United for a then world-record £89 million fee are doing the rounds again after he splashed out £70 million (with a further £5 million due in add-ons) on Southampton defender Virgil van Dijk.

At the time, Klopp questioned spending obscene money, in the range of £100 million, and said he'd call it a day.

As quoted by the Daily Mail, he 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.

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"That is how everybody in football understands it. You always want to have the best, but building the group is necessary to be successful.

"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.

"I don't know exactly how much money we could spend because nobody has told me, 'No, you can't do this.

"If I spend money, it is because I am trying to build a team, a real team. Barcelona did it. You can win championships, you can win titles, but there is a manner in which you want it."

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There's a bit of a contradiction from Klopp there, given that he's just paid a world-record fee for a central defender. We know the market is crazy, but he's looked like a bit of a hypocrite here - and social media has been quick to bring those aforementioned quotes back around.

Klopp speaking in July 2016 about us signing Pogba for a big fee...

"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." pic.twitter.com/GVpu6N6yD1 - Full Time DEVILS (@FullTimeDEVILS) December 27, 2017





2016:

Klopp on Pogba: "If you bring one player in for £100m and he gets injured, then it all goes through the chimney"

Gave an half an hour long discussion on how he could build a team for that money.

2018:

Succesfully bids £75m for a defender.

Hypocrisy.@UnitedStandMUFC #LFC - Baibhav Mishra (@mishra_baibhav) December 27, 2017

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Klopp was bitching about Pogba fee



"The day that this is football, I'm not in a job anymore, because the game is about playing together"



*signs a defender for 75m* - FIGHT4MUFC (@mufc4thefans) December 27, 2017

Klopp when United signed Pogba: "Other clubs can go out & spend more money & collect top players. I want to do it differently. I would even do it differently if I could spend that money."



Today he signed Van Djik for £75M.



But the media will say only Mourinho is a hypocrite. - LJ:tm: (@Mourinholxgy) December 27, 2017

Will Van Dijk justify his price tag?