Yeah, I'm sympathetic too, and I've been an advocate of it myself, but to me, it boils down to this: Klopp has said he wants two players of quality in each position on the pitch. There are two CB positions. We have Matip who is the best of the bunch, and I'm a fan, but he can't really be relied upon with his injury record and some iffy performances. We have Lovren, who I think is utter log and manages to paper over the cracks every now and again with good performances. All of the CBs in the premier league have good games in them, doesn't mean we should go and splash out on James Tomkins. He (Lovren) is not good enough. Klavan is a fucking joke.
Therefore we have one, maybe, good centre back at the club. One. Klopp, supposedly, should be wanting four. If he thinks Lovren and Klavan are good enough to be getting consistent games at this club then I've got to be asking serious questions. We should have been targeting Van Dijk AND one other.
Ideally, what I would've liked to have seen was:
Matip
Van Dijk
Sexy CB #2
Lovren (I would've preferred Sakho over him, but he obviously has pictures of Klopp skullfucking a pig so that was never going to happen).
Klavan stripped and sold for parts.
Not sure about Gomez, either, he could break down at any moment, like he has done in the past. Twice. Plus his middle name is Dave. DAVE.