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Jurgen Klopp has clarified what he meant when he recently said Liverpool were \u2018lucky\u2019 to have missed out on expensive midfielders such as Jude Bellingham, Moises Caicedo and Romeo Lavia last summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Reds were in desperate need of midfield reinforcements following a testing 2022\/23 season which saw them finish outside the Premier League\u2019s top four for the first time in seven years.<\/p>\n

Though they were not expected to shift many of their senior options, Liverpool received significant offers for Jordan Henderson and Fabinho from clubs in the Saudi Pro League and chose to sell the duo for a combined \u00a352m.<\/p>\n

That sped up Liverpool\u2019s midfield rebuild, signing Alexis Mac Allister from Brighton & Hove Albion and RB Leipzig\u2019s Dominik Szoboszlai by early July.<\/p>\n

Liverpool, however, had failed in their pursuit of Real Madrid-bound Bellingham earlier in the year and instead switched their attention to Brighton\u2019s Caicedo and Lavia at Southampton. Despite agreeing a \u00a3111m fee with the Seagulls, Caicedo opted to join Chelsea, with Lavia following the Ecuadorian to Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n

Ahead of Wednesday\u2019s meeting with Chelsea at Anfield, Klopp explained why he recently said at a fan event that Liverpool were \u201clucky\u201d to have missed out on Caicedo, pointing to the form of late summer signing Wataru Endo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was this night, I come in the stadium, the kids are playing and crowd is cheering \u2013 I forgot for 10 or 15 minutes I am a public person. So I thought: \u2018Oh no, that will create a lot of headlines\u2019,\u201d Klopp said of his Caicedo comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were interested in\u00a0Bellingham\u00a0and realised it would not happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole market for number sixes went up. Two number sixes left our club. The market heated up. We thought we could maybe do Caicedo. We\u2019d already done Mac Allister before. So we went in, he had an emotional agreement already with Chelsea and [Mauricio] Pochettino. Then Lavia had his own reasons. So we were there.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThen we found our top solution. That\u2019s what I meant [when I said], \u2018we are lucky\u2019. We found Wataru. All the time in our mind we had Stefan [Bajcetic].<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not clear at that moment he was so badly injured he could not feature at all. We already knew Macca could play the position. Dom was always on my radar.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf one of the \u00a3100m [targets] had worked, there\u2019s no chance to do another. So that door was open. That\u2019s how it went. That\u2019s what I meant when I said we are so lucky. Everything in the \u2018if not\u2019 scenario worked out.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to Mac Allister, Szoboszlai and Endo, Liverpool also completed the long-term signing of Bayern Munich midfielder Ryan Gravenberch prior to the summer deadline.<\/p>\n

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