Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has branded Tammy Abraham and Mason Mount as ‘£60million players’ahead of Liverpool’s trip to Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
Klopp also compared the current Chelsea side to his Dortmund side which won two Bundesliga titles in a row. Liverpool takes on Chelsea for the second time this season, the first being the UEFA super cup game last month where Liverpool won on penalties with Tammy Abraham missing the crucial penalty.
Despite that defeat, Klopp was full of praise for Chelsea’s young side.
‘It’s a really exciting team. It reminds me a little bit of my team at Dortmund years back,‘ he said.
‘They were really young and people always spoke about that, but they only played because they were that good.
‘Chelsea brought in (Christian) Pulisic in the summer, I don’t know about the money but it was £50-60million? All the players around him now have the same value. Tammy Abraham is a £60m player, Mason Mount for sure is £60m, maybe more. Hudson-Odoi was already that. Jorginho is still young, Kante looks like he could play for the next 20 years, Kovacic, Barkley, then the experienced guys around them, Pedro, Willian, Giroud.
‘If there was one club in the world where a transfer ban didn’t hit that bad, it was probably Chelsea because of the transfer policy in the last few years with these players on loan. High-quality players.
‘Abraham didn’t learn where the goal is at Chelsea, he found it in different places. They are just a good team, they have all my respect. They are a proper contender for everything. Now we play there and we want to get something.’.
Klopp’s Liverpool drew against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge last season with Daniel Sturridge scoring a stunning strike late in the game.
