Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says seeing Premier League rivals spend big this summer.
Klopp has overseen the €100m signing of Darwin Nunez from Benfica, while Fabio Carvalho has arrived from Fulham.
Klopp said in Singapore today: "It happens every year. [It does not change] our chances in our specific games against our rivals, whoever they may be – and I have figured out we have around about 19! They always do that and we try to do it as well. I don't think our chance is worse than last year or massively better than last year, not at all. Look, we played now for a while consistently on a pretty high level and that's really difficult to do, to be honest. It's not that we just think now we will be good again.
"Winning a Premier League is the most difficult thing I have experienced in my life and I have done the job already for a while. That's what we try to prepare for, that we are ready for Fulham and then for all the others in the league. Of course, before that, we play Man City and we try to be ready for that as well, but really we respect all the opponents in the Premier League and that's really difficult and nothing to do with who they signed or who came in and stuff like this. The good news is in the end they can only line up 11. We have the same number and then let's give it a go.
"That's what we try. We can improve, we have to and we want to and that's what we are working on. Then, we can be again this one team that nobody wants to play against and if we can be that then we have a good chance to win some football games."
On how the transfer market has changed during his career, Klopp stated: "A lot, obviously a lot. These kind of things happen. The numbers [about Darwin Nunez] you are telling are not right, but it's not a problem – I know which kind of number is going around in the world out there. When you want to sign a striker as exciting as Darwin is, that's the market and you have to pay the price.
"As I said, it's not the price you mentioned and not the prices going around, but it's no problem. I said so many things in my life and life caught me then later and showed me that my imagination was obviously not clear enough for how quickly life can change. That's how it is. After that, we bought a centre-half for quite a decent fee, we bought a goalie for quite a decent fee.
"Our situation is always the same, we try to level it somehow, the things we invest in the boys and in the players we sell, it's kind of that it's not going out of any kind of range and that worked so far, but I know, I heard it immediately. I forgot that I said this but everybody reminded me and then I thought, 'Oh, OK, yeah…' I've said worse things in my life, to be honest, but that's one of them."
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