Jurgen Klopp insists his 2016 comments criticising the eagerness to splash the cash in modern football are still true despite his own lavish spending in recent times at Liverpool.

When Manchester United signed Paul Pogba in 2016, Klopp was critical and adamant he would “even do it differently if I could spend that money”.

But since then, Liverpool have made Virgil van Dijk and Alisson the most expensive defender and goalkeeper of all time, while the club have also spent more than £40million each on Mohamed Salah, Naby Keita and Fabinho.

And following the signing of Alisson on Thursday, Klopp’s 2016 quotes resurfaced and were put to him in a news conference, drawing a fiery response.

“That’s a problem, whatever you say, no one will forget it,” Klopp told reporters on Saturday.

“It’s still kind of true. I couldn’t have imagined the world could have changed. £100m for Pogba was a crazy number, but since then the world changed.