Jurgen Klopp: 'Liverpool did not need Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang'

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has revealed that he turned down the chance to chase Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang before the striker completed his switch to Arsenal on deadline day.

  "Auba is really a good guy. Of course, reading the newspapers, you ask yourself if all these things must happen," Klopp is quoted as saying by The Independent. "But in fact things are mostly not that controversial as they are presented. In the end everybody will be happy. In the first half of the season he also scored often although last summer he wanted to go to China allegedly. "He is a great player but he does not play in a position for which we urgently need new players."