It just strikes me as completely ridiculous people can claim he is in total control yet he isn't able to shift the overall strategy.
New television deal, increased stadium capacity and Jürgen Klopp at the helm and he has freely chosen Leicester's second choice leftback, Zielinski and Mane?
It's so ridiculous surely no one believes that.
So of course the budget plays a huge part in the transfer process.
If you worked for any normal company where you are in charge of purchasing then you often don't set the overall budgets or have free choice of suppliers but you have power over the stuff within your remit.
But you wouldn't claim you had total control over purchasing. The criteria within which Klopp is working is not going to change from Rodgers and as a result he has to deal with many of the same issues, compromising on the quality of players bought.
Why do you assume the players signed/targets are not that of Klopp's say rather than Klopp's say for a strategy that FSG are looking to carry on with?
A lot of people seem to be pretty much criticizing the players we are being linked with but if you look back at Klopp's time at Dortmund to being with us now, he seems to be looking to carry out the same sort of business. I get what the likes of Michael (BigMick) and others are saying about signing "proven" players but here are some of the signings that Klopp made at Dortmund, where he had control over transfers. A team where he had a lot of success.
Mats Hummels - Looked far from having a decent career when he was at Munich. Loaned and then signed for £4mill by Dortmund at around 19/20 years of age, and now regarded as one of the best defenders around and will be back at Munich next season after a big fee.
Piszczek - Free transfer to Dortmund at the age of 25 having hardly brightened the world of football and was relatively unknown but has been a key player for Dortmund and one of the most solid FBs around.
Lewandowski - A decent goal record in Poland led to a £4mill move to Dortmund at the same age as Hummels, 19/20. Was a back up player to the side at first but is now regarded as one of the best strikers around and since gone to Munich. Free transfer due to his contract but if he moved now, he would command a massive fee.
Reus - Although already had a lot of promise and an ever growing reputation so more known than the ones I have listed so far, he was still only 22/23 when he went to Dortmund for around £13mill.
Gündoğan - Virtually an unknown 20 year old when he signed for Dortmund but is now one of the best players around in his position and secured a move to City for a big fee.
Not forgetting the likes of Kagawa, Subotic and Bender either.
Also am I right in saying he has only spent £20mill+ twice? Mkhitaryan at around £24mill and Immobile at £22mill. On of those worked out and one didn't.
If them players were in that position and signing for us now, the views would be exactly the same to what the views are for our current signings/targets when in actual fact, there is every chance Klopps signings could go on to have the exact same impact as the ones listed above.
I think it's a case of Rodgers making so many bad signings to try and match the clubs player philosophy along with not really knowing what sort of team he wanted/strategy etc that has gotten people almost desperate now to see us sign "proven" players.
Klopp's not an idiot and he wont be backed into a corner over people above him trying to dictate transfers. He knows what kind of team he wants to build, he knows exactly what areas need to be improved on and he will have players he feels can genuinely make a difference on his list of targets.