Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has been quoted as sounding rather grumpy about the big spending in this summer’s transfer market of rivals Liverpool.
Discussing his own side’s relatively quiet summer in which only Fred has come in as an obvious addition to his first XI, Mourinho couldn’t resist a little dig at Liverpool for ‘buying everything and everybody’, as quoted by the Metro.
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Jurgen Klopp’s side have added four players to their squad this summer – Naby Keita, Fabinho, Xherdan Shaqiri and Alisson. Technically, this is just one player more than United, even if Diogo Dalot and Lee Grant are not likely to become regulars.
On top of that, many Liverpool fans on Twitter are now pointing out that United’s net spending since Mourinho took over is still considerably higher than Liverpool’s.
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Loading ...The Merseyside giants likely have more money to spend after selling Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona in January for big money, so it’s hard to criticise them for simply throwing money at everything.
Here’s how fans reacted to this latest Mourinho dig…
? | Mourinho: "Liverpool are buying everything and everybody."
Net spend since summer 2016:
Jurgen Klopp ~ £114m
Jose Mourinho ~ £307m pic.twitter.com/6T7A4PI2eI— Watch LFC (@Watch_LFC) August 5, 2018
Since 2016 net spent: Mourinho -£307 Klopp -£114. That's all…
— Thun (@Thun2819) August 6, 2018
Mourinho: "Liverpool are buying everything and everybody."
Net spend since summer 2016:
Jurgen Klopp ~ £114m
Jose Mourinho ~ £307mKlopp: pic.twitter.com/eUURRvFrZU
— Fans Extra (@FansExtra) August 6, 2018
What are you on about? You've spent £280m net since Mourinho arrived, we've spent £150m net since Klopp arrived.
— CDM (@casinooasis14) August 5, 2018
? | Mourinho: "Liverpool are buying everything and everybody."
Net spend since summer 2016:
Jurgen Klopp ~ £114m
Jose Mourinho ~ £307m pic.twitter.com/IYwR2kjspy— TiagoARMANI™? (@tiago_sebago) August 5, 2018
Klopp = ?
Mourinho = ? pic.twitter.com/yVUhkDzMEb— Roy (@roycummings10) August 5, 2018
dont matter Mourinho is making a fool out of his self… constantly making remarks about Klopp and liverpool??? klopp dont mention that fool
— christopher salt (@christo13540800) August 5, 2018
Only time Klopp's spoken about other teams/managers was the Pogba deal, while Mourinho can't go a week without talking about us Pep Wenger etc ??
— R8 (@Nabyllionaire) August 5, 2018