Jurgen Klopp is min gespin about big-spending rivals’ challenge to his team’s Premier League crown.
While the German has only added £12m leftback Kostas Tsimikas to his squad, the likes of Chelsea (who have splurged a league record £230m on six new players), Manchester United and Manchester City have all added big names to their teams.
But Klopp believes the core of his span, which has won the
Champions League, Uefa Super Cup, Club World Cup and the Prem in the last 18 months, still has the advantage this season.
Ahead of Saturday’s season-opener against Marcelo Bielsa’s newly-promoted Leeds United, Klopp tells the BBC: “We’re a different kind of club.
“We got to the Champions League final two years ago, we won it last year, and became Premier League champions last season by being the club we are, by being led the way we are led.
“We cannot just change it overnight and say ‘so now we want to behave like Chelsea, now we want to behave like them now they’ve signed a lot of players.
“You cannot bring in the 11 best players in the world and just hope a week later they play the best football they ever will play. It’s about working together on the training ground.
"That will probably be an advantage for us.
“But we did it last year, pretty much that way. For our reasons, club reasons, we always want to improve, we always want to improve the squad, but there are different ways.”