Five reasons Liverpool do not need a marquee summer signing

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Big Team + Big Names + Big Budgets = Big Success?

As the Premier League reaps more and more money into its ever expanding coffers each year, the pressure on its clubs to pull off expensive signings of the biggest names in football in order to please the fans is an obligatory demand.

While no club in England has yet to make a “marquee signing”, the post-Euro/pre-Premier League weeks are bound to be awash with exciting superstars making their way to these shores.

However, do the elites need to look for big names to please their fans and empty their bank accounts?

Here we give Liverpool fans FIVE reasons why their team do not need to make a marquee signing this summer…

Returning Loans

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While Liverpool will undoubtedly look to the transfer market to strengthen this summer, it is easy to forget that they have a number of players returning to Anfield from loan spells.

Mario Balotelli, Lazar Markovic, Luis Alberto and Andrew Wisdom are all potential first team players who will be heading back to Merseyside.

While the enigmatic Balotelli may not be welcomed back with open arms by Reds fans, the other three are all young, hungry stars who may flourish under Jurgen Klopp.

Quality not Quantity

Liverpool have managed to uncover some genuine talents over the past five years without breaking the bank.

Phillipe Coutinho and Luis Suarez were not global stars when they arrived in the city and were purchased for comparatively small sums.

If any man were to find these hidden gems around Europe, Jurgen Klopp would be a good bet.

Experience tells us it doesn’t work

How often do overpriced, egotistical superstars come to the Premier League for tens of millions of pounds and fail to impress?

You only have to look at some of the recent signings at Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge to know that sometimes, the Premier League is just too much of a challenge for supposed megastars.

While Liverpool have been comparatively wise in their spending in recent times, they must be careful that they do not fall into the overspending trap, that so many of their rivals have been prey to in recent times.

Youth

Alongside the talents of the first team at Liverpool, the club are also blessed with some fantastic products of their youth system who have been largely ignored by their managers in recent times.

While Klopp gave significant playing time to a handful of young stars last season, the club would be wise to look deeper into their home grown youth teams to find their next revelation.

Pedro Chirivella, Allan and Marko Grujic are all extremely exciting young talents who could make a breakthrough this coming season

Klopp at Dortmund

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Ilkay Gundogan, Robert Lewandowski, Shinji Kagawa, Mats Hummels and Lukasz Piszczek were all signed by Jurgen Klopp during his time with Borussia Dortmund. W

hile that list now looks like the beginnings of a World XI, the combined transfer total of these unknowns at the time was just £10million.

The German manager has proved in the past that he can turn also-rans into superstars and there is no reason why he cannot do it again at Liverpool without having to break the bank for a marquee signing.