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Jurgen Klopp would like you to stop talking about transfers, please

Jurgen Klopp has had enough of the English press nagging him about Liverpool's transfer plans. (Omnisport)
Jurgen Klopp has had enough of the English press nagging him about Liverpool’s transfer plans. (Omnisport)

Kloppo is sick of it.

By any objective measure, Jurgen Klopp has done well in his time as manager of Liverpool so far, since taking over for the fired Brendan Rodgers early into the 2015-16 season. He ended the Reds’ skid, got them back up to eighth place — still tied for their worst-ever finish in the Premier League era — got them playing attractive soccer again, instilled some belief, forged momentum, won the fans over, and even oversaw an unlikely run to the Europa League final.

But one thing about English soccer hasn’t agreed with him. The national fixation on transfers.

That caused him to lash out, in a very friendly and Kloppish way, about the absurdity of it all when he was asked about Liverpool’s plans for the remainder of the summer transfer window.

“I really [can’t] wait for the day when finally the transfer window is closed, because I can’t believe how obsessed you all are with this,” he said in a press conference on Monday.

“You don’t believe for a second in improvement on the training pitch,” Klopp continued. He seemed to suggest that the solution isn’t always buying a new player, that sometimes improving or retooling an existing player is the answer.

That’s certainly fair. And he made a plausible argument. “I understand that [the win against] Arsenal was not a perfect game — we scored four so obviously we can score goals, but we conceded three so obviously we have a defensive problem,” he said. “Then we play at Burnley, we have 81% possession but cannot score a goal [and lose] so now you can say we need another striker if you want.”

Simply put, the media puts too much stock into results in assessing a team’s issues and needs in the player market. Or so reckons Klopp. There’s truth to that.

And it wasn’t the first remarkable utterance by Klopp lately.

In a recent interview, he questioned the sanity of people who care what football managers — like him — have to say.

“A football manager is listened to in a way that actually makes you wonder about the intelligence of the human race,” he told Stern, a German magazine, according to the Guardian. “I recently met a famous brain surgeon in New York and in his brain, when it comes to intelligence, there are definitely 80 percent more light bulbs alight than in mine. But what happens? He started to stutter because he is crazy about football and this person from [Liverpool] was suddenly standing in front of him.”

You do you, Kloppo.