Gabby Agbonlahor believes Jurgen Klopp’s feedback about Man Metropolis’s spending energy stem from a frustration at simply how good Erling Haaland has been.
Klopp stated nobody can compete with the monetary may of Gulf-state owned Metropolis, Paris Saint-Germain and Newcastle.
The Manchester membership have been removed from happy about these feedback and claimed they infected tensions forward of their bitter clash at Anfield on Sunday.
Metropolis privately briefed that they felt Klopp’s feedback have been ‘borderline xenophobic’.
The Liverpool boss strongly refuted those suggestions and a authorized grievance has been made.
Former Aston Villa striker Agbonlahor believes Klopp’s feedback weren’t xenophobic however moderately was on account of frustrations over Haaland.
The Metropolis striker has lit up the Premier League since becoming a member of from Borussia Dortmund, scoring 15 league targets in simply ten video games.
Agbonlahor informed talkSPORT Breakfast: “Once you have a look at him, perhaps he’s frustration at how good Haaland has executed.
“If you look at both squads, Liverpool have been going toe-to-toe with Man City in the last three or four seasons and in the summer Haaland has come to City, Nunez has gone to Liverpool, yes they’ve signed Kalvin Phillips as well, but it’s not as if they’ve bought five or six more players.
“He’s just a bit frustrated with how his team have underperformed.
“Is it more frustration from Klopp at how good Haaland has done and Nunez hasn’t so far done as well.
“I don’t think he was trying to stoke the fire, it’s just a bit of frustration that in future transfer windows he knows he’s not got the money to go and buy Bellingham for £120million.
“Manchester Metropolis, if I used to be them, I most likely would go and purchase Bellingham.
“Ilkay Gundogan is in his 30s they usually may say ‘yeah, we’ve acquired the facility to go and purchase Bellingham as a substitute of Liverpool as a result of we would like him at our membership and never yours’.”
When requested particularly in regards to the feedback over spending energy, Agbonlahor added: “I believe he’s acquired some extent. You see Newcastle, Paris Saint-Germain, Man Metropolis, the sum of money they’ve acquired and the quantity they will pay their gamers, the quantity they spent on transfers.
“You’ll be able to see the place it’s coming from, however it’s simply unusual to listen to it when he’s been going toe-to-toe with Manchester Metropolis.
“They beat Man Metropolis, I assumed they have been the higher group. They have been unusual feedback whenever you aren’t far behind them within the high quality of the group.”
