The combo of Salah/Firmino/Mane can get even better with further coaching and the gelling of players behind them. They are basically undroppable. So unless we are selling one of them, you have to wonder where Mbappe, immensely gifted as he is, fits in.
Oxlaide-Chamberlain, Alisson and Van Dijk purchases cost us £185m or so pretty recently. Our best players have signed improved (expensive too) contracts.
I love the idea of having the next Messi/Ronaldo level talent at Anfield - but funding it without breaking our wage structure and our very sensible recruitment policy under Klopp looks very difficult and very high risk (can you imagine if he tore an ACL in his first 6 months of a very long and high-paying contract?) when we could intelligently recruit young, cheap, under-the-radar potential all over the place, choose our loan-locations shrewdly and either rake in the money of developed players or use them ourselves if they're good enough.
Realistically in the current market if Leicester are looking £90m for Harry bloody Maguire then Mbappe is a £250m player who'll want £400,000 a week. That sort of outlay simply isn't viable for us and we won't want to alter the market too much as we'd shoot ourselves in the foot long-term, as the Oil clubs, Juventus, United and Bayern will have the ability to out-spend us for the foreseeable.
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