Daily Mirror

PREMIER LEAGUE? JOSE IS HAVING A LAUGH

- FROM DAVID McDONNELL

JURGEN KLOPP has dismissed as “mind games” Jose Mourinho’s claim that Liverpool must win the Premier League following their huge summer spend.

The Manchester United boss said Liverpool must end their three-decade wait for the title after spending £175million this summer – £250m in 2018 with the £75m January signing of Virgil van Dijk (right).

But Klopp, whose Liverpool side take on Mourinho’s United in Michigan tonight, dismissed his rival’s claim as a futile attempt to pile the pressure on him ahead of the new season and laughed it off.

“It doesn’t bother me,” said Klopp.

“I heard he was smiling when he said it and he found it funny, so I’m really happy that Jose’s smiling – it doesn’t happen a lot of times! Would I speak about Jose if you didn’t ask me? Of course not. I’m not sure, but probably, Jose wouldn’t speak about me if nobody asked him.

“But I couldn’t be less interested. It’s completely normal. Jose tries everything – on one side to put pressure on people and on the other he does it to improve his own situation.

“If he goes on about spending money – and I’m not the best at counting money in terms of what we’ve spent in the last few years – but since we are both in England, probably he has spent a little bit more – at least net. “We tried to improve our own situation and hopefully we could do that. That’s it – nothing else. If our fans are now more optimistic after last season, plus the transfers that we made, then it’s perfect. “But, really, I have never had a problem with what other managers say. With Jose, it’s all good. I will meet him tomorrow. “Sometimes there are more things because of emotions but it never lasts longer than a minute or so. Then you carry on.”

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