Yes that's the difficult part. It's easier when you are a club challenging on all fronts with loads of cash to burn. These clubs can just go for the more proven up and coming young players. Like when Chelsea signed Hazard who although very young was already Ligue 1 Player of the Year. This summer many top clubs will be fighting for the gems at Monaco especially Mbappe who is likely to cost even more than Martial. For someone like us we will inevitably have to settle for players a tier or two lower, which increases the risk of course - example Markovic. It's just the sad truth that we are not capable of competing with the super elites. We lost out on Ousmane Dembele to Dortmund because frankly Dortmund is better than us at the moment. Have little to no chance of signing Pulisic. And this is not a lack of money, Dortmund themselves run on a much tighter budget than ours. Sad thing is these are not even the top tier wonderkids that we are losing out on.

Wouldn't call Lovren a favourite of Klopp. If he was Klopp wouldn't even be looking at 50m Van Dijk. However bad Lovren is, he still is the 2nd best CB in the squad and our record with him and Matip starting is still decent.

Chelsea didn't pay a tremendous amount for Kante though, it was around 30m which is a massive bargain in the current market. Everton and Tottenham paid the same amount for Bolasie and Moussa Sissoko respectively, think about that.