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Jurgen Klopp explains lack of minutes for summer signing

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has insisted that summer signing Wataru Endo is a "super important part of the squad" and will "start games" for the Reds this season, having played only five minutes across the club's last three Premier League fixtures. Liverpool turned to Endo, almost relegated from the Bundesliga with Stuttgart last season, for around £16m in the same week that it became clear that Moises Caicedo and Romeo Lavia were both going to join Chelsea for a combined £173m instead. Endo made his Liverpool debut as a substitute for the final half hour of the club's Premier League opener against Bournemouth. He then started against Newcastle but was withdrawn inside an hour before the Reds eventually went on to mount a comeback win. Klopp;s message about Endo was similar after both Game s, saying after Bournemouth that it was "horrible" circumstances for the Japan international to come into after Alexis Mac Allister was sent off and that he ...

Transfer business Arsenal need to do after Jurrien Timber and Declan Rice signings

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At the end of what Arsene Wenger described as an 'average game' against Fulham in 2011, the Arsenal manager left the pitch at Craven Cottage to chants of 'spend some f***ing money'. On the back of a season tinged with the disappointment of a League Cup final defeat, Wenger felt the need to readjust fans' expectations ahead of the summer window. "We can't buy players for £50m," he declared. "That is a fact." The financial landscape at Arsenal has emphatically changed in the subsequent 12 years. Mikel Arteta - who was signed by Wenger in 2011 for considerably less than £50m - has already splurged more than £200m on three players this summer. Jurrien Timber (£40m) and Declan Rice (£105m), along with Kai Havertz (£65m), have been added to a squad which led the Premier League for 248 days last season only to finish behind Manchester City in May. Despite the eye-watering outlay, Arsenal's summer business is not yet completed. Here's everyt...