BBC did some analysis into this with Kieran Maguire who’s a football finance expert.
They suggested we could do £200m this summer if we wanted to based on recent spending in previous windows.
You’d hope that sales of Kelleher, Tsimikas, Morton, Doak and Nunez would net you close on £100m. Then you’ve got possible sales of Elliott, Chiesa, maybe Bajcetic or Endo. Plus a CB addition would surely be because Gomez or Quansah have moved on. If we needed a Diaz replacement we’d have banked a good wedge selling him.
Not saying we break even or anything but I’d be surprised if our net spend exceeds much more than £125m this window.
I feel like, for one reason or another (Trent leaving, Robbo getting on a bit, getting ahead of the competition etc) the Frimpong, Kerkez and Wirtz deals were our immediate priorities this summer and we’ve had the funds already available to secure those.
But when those are concluded I wouldn’t be surprised to see a flurry of sales before we start to see us moving on a CF and/or CB… positions where maybe we’re in more of a ‘can make do if we need to’ place, and where targets will be decided based upon how much we’ve been able to raise.
We’ve pretty much recouped Frimpong. I’d expect if/when Kerekerz and Wirtz are done we will see some re-evaluation some outgoings and then we will go again, I expect someone like Jota will stay to bridge the period and signings we make in the second part of the summer will be players we already have options for.
The thing is, we don’t know much behind-the-scenes legwork has gone into those past transfers before they’re announced. When there isn’t a release cause, especially. I imagine that Alisson and Van Dijk, in particular, involved a lot of negotiations.
The public nature of these transfer negotiations is what’s unique, in my view.
Made for Liverpool then, London would be a disaster for that type of personality. Liverpool has always been considered a low key community when compared your other metropolitan locations.
I don’t think its protracted. Its just being played out a bit more publicly than we are used to. In an ideal world, it would have been kept quiet, but (as i said earlier) the German press were informed by Bayern Munich that Wirtz had rejected them…that was the cat out the bag.
Protracted was the Virgil deal. Even Alis was long in the making.
As others have said, its a £100m+ deal. We arent at the supermarket pondering whether we want a Chicken and Mushroom or a Bombay Badboy pot noodle.
The Thiago signing dragged on for weeks. It was Bayern pushing that one. Most of the noise over this has come from Bayern, although for different reasons.
We don’t usually see the working on these deals. I think Dom was 48 hours from rumour to signing, but I don’t think the conversation went, “Do you fancy a game? Cool! Sign here.”
I’d be shocked if we don’t end up signing him. He wants LFC, no one is even denying that and Leverkusen won’t keep him against his will and with the contract situation.
