Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea FC has spent more than £200 million this summer after the two-season transfer ban was lifted. The Blues has been the busiest club in this transfer window who back-to-back signed Kai Havertz, Timo Werner, Hakim Ziyech, Ben Chilwell along with Thiago Silva and Malang Sarr arriving on free transfers.
On the other hand, defending champions Liverpool has not spent much money on buying players this season. The Red’s boss refused to spend big amidst the COVID-19 pandemic with only Kostas Tsimikas of Greece came as a back up for Andy Robertson.
In an interview, Jurgen Klopp talked about Chelsea’s spending and termed it as a club different than that of Liverpool. Lampard reacted to Klopp’s statement saying that was amused as the Reds have spent big on many occasions recently.
The two managers had clashed during Liverpool’s 5-3 victory over Chelsea last season where they were involved in a verbal argument. This was the second time and first of the season that happened.
But Simon Jordan of TalkSports considers the argument to be severely flawed. He said to the former Crystal Palace owner, Jim white about a big difference between the two clubs in England. His opinion backs Klopp’s statement as he termed Chelsea as a club standing on a sole man’s incredible wealth.
The former Crystal Palace owner said: “Nation-states and oligarchs are driving football clubs in a certain direction.”
“But Liverpool is a natural, organically iconic football club and, with respect to Chelsea, they are not. They’re a manufactured club on the demands of one man’s incredible wealth.
He also cleared the claims of Liverpool’s big signing by Lampard.
“The notion that Liverpool has somehow spent big, that’s a little bit silly really, because Liverpool sold £150million Coutinho which funded Virgil van Dijk’s move.”
“So, if you’re going to draw a parallel with the £75m they spent on Van Dijk, Frank, do it between the £75m Liverpool spent and the £75m you spent on your goalkeeper – see if that works!
“If Liverpool has sold £200m worth of players, say, Suarez and Coutinho, over the last five years and have spent £350m in that time, then they’ve spent a net of £30m a year.
“That’s not bad for a club that’s just destroyed the Premier League last season before the lockdown,” said Simon.
