Jurgen Klopp confirms Liverpool WILL sign more players this summer… as Jordan Henderson and Fabinho get set for shock Saudi moves

Jurgen Klopp has said more fresh faces must arrive at Liverpool before the first game of the Premier League season and has asked fans to trust him. 

The Reds have already bolstered their creative options by signing Alexis Mac Allister from Brighton for £35million Dominik Szoboszlai from RB Leipzig for £60m.

However, a Saudi storm has jeopardised their plans with Jordan Henderson completing his Al-Ettifaq medical and Al-Ittihad and Bayern Munich chasing Fabinho. 

The turbulence has left the Merseysiders needing to line up first-team midfield options in the event of their departures and Klopp confimed the club are not done in the transfer market yet.

‘There are so many things to do, he said, speaking on the club’s We are Liverpool podcast. ‘The transfer window is open. If my day would have 28 hours at the moment it would not be a problem – I could fill them easily!

Jurgen Klopp said that ‘new players have to come in’ before the new season begins

Jordan Henderson and Fabinho look close to the exit door, giving the Reds a summer headache

‘With all the things you have to do left and right, my main focus and energy has to go into the training sessions then that’s what I do. Then either side of the sessions I can try to help with other stuff.

‘Still three-and-a-half weeks until the first game of the season. A few things have to happen before then, definitely, transfer market-wise as well.

‘That is clear now. And it will happen. New players have to come in. We will have a good team.’

Multiple midfield options have been linked with Liverpool.

There has been speculation surrounding a swoop for Southampton’s 19-year-old starlet Romeo Lavia, but his £50m price tag could deter them considering his relative inexperience. 

The club are also costing up a move for Crystal Palace man Cheick Doucoure. The south London side have slapped a £70m valuation on the Mali international but are yet to have their resolve tested by a bid. 

Earlier in the summer, it looked as if their interest in Nice’s Khepren Thuram had cooled after acquiring Szoboszlai, but the departures of Henderson and Fabinho could revive that.

Southampton are confident they can secure £50m for the highly sought-after Romeo Lavia

Cheick Doucoure has emerged as a target after an impressive debut Premier League season

Klopp was speaking on Liverpool’s new We are Liverpool podcast ahead of the season

Further afield, they could look at the likes of Fiorentina’s Sofyan Amrabat, who impressed at the World Cup for Morocco, or Bayern Munich’s Ryan Gravenberch. 

Klopp also said: ‘Seven-and-a-half years ago… I said that we have to change from doubters to believers.

‘I didn’t know [at] that time that this will kind of be a phrase of that period because we all change. So, I was not sure at that time and maybe I was a doubter in the beginning – but I became a massive believer.

‘But, of course, the last years, nearly winning the quadruple but not doing it actually, and then having the season we had, that can create some doubt, I know that.

‘Then people want to change – on one day they want to change the team on 12 positions and then the next day only one. And then we change and then it’s the wrong player, ‘No, no, not him’, and stuff like this.

‘What I would like to ask for: trust us.

‘We feel really responsible for what’s happening here and we will do absolutely everything to have a season, in the best possible understanding, we will never forget. That’s the plan.