It took Jurgen Klopp a superb few years to get Liverpool correctly firing, which is little shock judging by his first few signings.
The German boss has spent simply shy of £900million of 45 gamers since shifting to Anfield in 2015, however had a reasonably cost-effective first season on the helm. While the likes of Sadio Mane, Joel Matip and Georginio Wijnaldum would be a part of on the finish of the marketing campaign, the primary title by the door was Marko Grujic, who arrived for £5m in January 2016.
The midfielder was a highly-rated teen making waves in his native Serbia on the time, and the likes of Chelsea, Juventus and Inter Milan had been monitoring him earlier than Liverpool managed to snap him up. But Grujic, now 27, didn’t make the grade on Merseyside and left after taking part in simply 16 instances for the membership.
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These days, he is plying his commerce for Porto and is an everyday in Serbia’s nationwide group. As such, he’ll be standing between England and Euro 2024 glory in a number of months’ time.
The Three Lions, who’re one of many favourites to win the event, have been drawn in a bunch towards Serbia, Denmark and Slovenia. They’ll face Serbia of their opening match on June 16 in Gelsenkirchen earlier than battling it out with Denmark and Slovenia on June 20 and June 25 respectively.
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Grujic was arguably probably the most excessive profile signing of Klopp’s first switch window, although his arrival was considerably overshadowed by the weird seize of defender Steven Caulker, who joined on mortgage from QPR.
With the likes of Wijnaldum, Jordan Henderson, Philippe Coutinho and Emre Can forward of him in midfield, Grucij struggled for minutes and finally left on mortgage, spending the 2017/18 season on mortgage at Cardiff City. He then spent two years at Hertha Berlin earlier than leaving completely in 2020 to affix Porto.
Klopp was a central determine in luring Grujic to Anfield and even flew to Belgrade to persuade the teen to select Liverpool over different choices accessible to him on the time.