Of course it's been skewed by the sale of coutinho. But their transfer policy is actually similar to ours.
Before the coutinho sale, under Klopp they had signed 3 players with deals of 30 million or above (Mane, Salah and Oxlade Chamberlain). I'll go as far as saying no coutinho sale meant no Van Dijk, no keita and possibly no Fabinho. Hell, at the beginning of the 2018 summer window, klopps net was 700k. (Which included Keita cos they paid for him early)
They splashed that summer, yeah. And then spent fuck all this, (followed by presses in which Klopp said a lot of the same things pochettino had the previous year...happy with his squad, better to not lose anyone and so on)
in my opinion, they spent next to nothing this summer , despite the champions league windfall, because they spent it all (this summer's budget)the previous year. And no significant sales meant nothing significant to spend.
But similar dealings for us is , in the eyes of some of our support, Levy not backing the manager, whereas Klopps been backed to the hilt. IMO that's horseshit.