“It will be interesting to see what other teams are doing, but we are more or less in our situation and we will deal with our situation like we always did.

“I think the philosophy of this club is pretty clear, we always did that.

“We will see how much we can, or how much we want, to spend and all these kinds of things. So, nothing really to say about it.”

Liverpool kick-off the new season this afternoon as they face Arsenal in the Community Shield at Wembley (4.30pm).