Liverpool transfer news: Jurgen Klopp remains quiet over Alex Teixeira move as talks continue
The club’s chief executive Ian Ayre is currently negotiating with the Ukrainian Premier League side in Florida
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Your support makes all the difference.Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has refused to reveal any details about the club’s pursuit of Shakhtar Donetsk forward Alex Teixeira.
The club’s chief executive Ian Ayre is currently negotiating with the Ukrainian Premier League side in Florida having tabled a £24.6million bid, which has reportedly been turned down.
The 26-year-old Brazilian, who has also attracted interest from Chelsea, is believed to be rated by Klopp, but the former Borussia Dortmund head coach remained tight-lipped over his potential signing at a press conference ahead of Saturday’s lunchtime kick-off against Norwich City.
“I have nothing to say about this,” he said. “We could talk about a lot of players in the world and I could, if we had time for this, talk about the qualities they have.”
Klopp did, however, admit that the club had been forced to change its recruitment plans given his squad’s recent injury crisis.
“The whole situation changed obviously. I think I always said if our situation changed then we had to change our opinion,” he said.
“The January window is not the best and if you are under pressure then everyone wants prices where you think ‘Are they crazy?’.
“If you take a new player now we have two days to the next game, four days to the next so it is not a perfect moment. But we have to watch the market, to think about what makes sense for us now plus for the summer.
“If we find a solution which fits for both transfer windows, winter and summer, and a player could help us as quickly as possible then of course we would try.
“I have always said we will watch the market and we will see if something happens, there are a few days to go.
“If there is a good player and we see a longer option with time to work together and not only for three games and all the others come back then we would think about it. If it was possible we would try to do something what we would want to do in summer.”
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