Jurgen Klopp insists Liverpool will not “spend the big money or whatever” this summer.
Liverpool spent the most of any Premier League side in 2018, with Virgil van Dijk, Alisson, Naby Keita and Fabinho all arriving for more than £40m each.
The Reds are one point off the top of the Premier League table with eight games remaining, and are in the Champions League quarter-finals where they will face Porto.
The temptation might be to continue to spend and build on such progress, but Klopp says he will avoid that “main problem” that Liverpool have faced over the last ten years or so.
“I don’t want to talk exactly what we will do, but I don’t think this is a team at the moment where we have to spend the big money or whatever,” he told Sky Sports.
“The best way to do it is bring together a group of players, try to develop them altogether and then stay together for a while.
“That was maybe the main problem of Liverpool for the last decade. When they had a good team after a season they went all over the world. That will not happen this year for sure.
“It [Liverpool’s development] is massive. I think the steps are really obvious but it is still about a natural confidence.
“We have to start looking at ourselves how other teams see us. When you think about how Bayern faced us here – I saw Bayern playing a lot in the last years but I never saw them being that defensive-orientated. When Manchester City came here, it was similar.
“They had a lot of respect for us but I am not sure we always have the same amount of respect for ourselves.”