Arne Slot: Liverpool do not have ‘unlimited money’ to fix squad issues

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Arne Slot has insisted that Liverpool do not have “unlimited money” after spending a record £450m in the transfer market in the summer. And Slot suggested their funds would be limited in January, saying: “The outside world wants to believe we have unlimited money but that is not true.

“You insiders know – and you are the only ones because the outside world only talks about our spending – what we have brought in [money] to spend. You then have to accept that in certain games during a season you are short of a right full-back.

I fully believe in that way of working by the way.”Slot will only be able to take two senior specialist centre-backs to Tottenham on Saturday, with Joe Gomez joining Leoni on the sidelines, while midfielders Dominik Szoboszlai and Curtis Jones have taken their turn at right-back this season. “If you have four centre-backs for the season, two right- and two left-backs with Wata [Endo] and Ryan [Gravenberch] who can help you out, but then you have an ACL injury, that is not very helpful. ‘It is tough.