In an effort to posture for negotiations, Ajax officials such as manager Frank De Boer have constantly claimed that it would take an "absurd" transfer fee upwards of £27 million ($43 million) to secure the services of Luis Suarez.
Given such, Liverpool chairman Tom Werner was asked Wednesday whether or not the club still could make marquee signings like the £22 million paid for Fernando Torres in 2007.
His answer was simple: "Yes."
"Look at our history. The Boston Red Sox have the second-highest wages in baseball and we have been as successful, if not more, than the New York Yankees," he explained.
He went on to say that Liverpool is a top-four club and that it would spend accordingly, reports ESPN.co.uk.
"We consider ourselves to be a big-four club, and we have a lot of resources. At the same time, we need to figure a way to grow our club because no one is happy with the status quo at Anfield because we need to increase our match-day revenues.
"We have a very high wage bill and it shouldn't be such that we are 12th in the league right now. I don't want to get the wage bill down, I want it to increase and we have the resources to do that … but we are not going to be making decisions which do not improve the fortunes of the club long term.
"Everyone knows our long-term goals are to restore the lustre to the club, and we want to honour our great history by winning more trophies,'' Werner added. "This has obviously been a somewhat frustrating period for all of our supporters so in the short term we just want to see some progress and hopefully under Kenny our fortunes will improve.
