Jurgen Klopp claims he had a conversation with Liverpool club chiefs in which the question "Can we get Jadon Sancho?" was asked.
Liverpool were showing an interest in the 20-year-old when he was looking for a way out at Manchester City. Klopp concedes that Liverpool quickly learnt they wouldn't be able to snap up the forward, because 'English clubs don't like to sell to other English clubs'.
But the German praised the fact Sancho was heading to the Bundesliga, which he described as wonderful, and a team he knows very well in Borussia Dortmund.
Klopp said in 2019: "Buying English players is a smart idea because we would never have a chance to get Sancho. "We are not blind – we saw him, we liked him and then we think: 'Can we get him?' No. "B
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