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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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CJJ said:
"Liverpool are always operating at close to the line of what they can afford. They dont have unlimited money, so they do say no. But they also back their manager and spend what they can afford."

"We dont spend what we can afford. We spend what Levy allows."


Surely you can see how mental that juxtaposition is? Why have we been in the red and net spent £500m+ in the last 4 seasons if the first statement is so different? It is almost double Liverpool's net spend, with CL money and two PL titles in that time
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We generally have to over pay to get players in and we rarely get value back when players leave if you ask me. Lo Celso and Ndombele are the poster boys for that but they are not unique.
 
CJJ said:
People go on like it's chicken/egg, but are inventing a perspective of Liverpool that doesn't exist.
  • They don't have the big wage bill of City, Woolwich, Man Utd, or Man City.
  • They didn't "spend big" to win the league.
  • They didn't give their new manager players for a rebuild last summer, and only added one injury-prone midfielder who barely played
  • They don't buy big established "world class" players, but rather take calculated gambles
  • They got to the end of the season with the contracts of their 3 biggest players running out. One of their best players just left with a token transfer fee, but was effectively about to be out of contract. They've just put two 33 year old players on huge contracts.
All of the above is the reality of Liverpool that would cause utter outrage on here.

We probably could sign a £100m+ player if we won the league or the CL, but there's clearly just nuances separating Liverpool from this club, and it isn't anything to do with ownership - they just have been more successful with their gambles so far.

It is still far from certain whether or not that move will pay off for them - they still don't have a replacement for TAA yet, and have no succession plan for VVD or Salah. There's no obvious sign how Allison/Marmadashvilli will work. A lot of flaws in their strategy so far, in paying so much money in the area that isn't obviously where they needed to.


People will say that they are being clever doing business early, but they're now at the mercy of other clubs for the players they now need to shift (e.g. Nunez)
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bk_spur said:
We don't have a lot of money to spend. I judge our potential spends against how it might be invested otherwise. This is called "cost-benefit analysis". If you need an apple and a coconut, but trade the only three oranges you have for the apple, and then have nothing to trade for the coconut, you have to go without. This is part of what we call "economics"- how to allocate resources in a reality of scarcity.

On the other hand, it sounds like you live in some fantasy world where blowing a club record transfer fee on Kudus is no big deal. It doesn't seem like big-picture thinking is for you- maybe you should just stick to being a casual fan and collecting bobbleheads and kits, dawg.
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We already spent north of £50 million this Summer on Tel, Danso and Vuskevic. I reckon are going to spend at least twice that before the season starts. Around £150 million in the Summer window seems to be about standard for us in the last few years.
 
Crockett said:
We already spent north of £50 million this Summer on Tel, Danso and Vuskevic. I reckon are going to spend at least twice that before the season starts. Around £150 million in the Summer window seems to be about standard for us in the last few years.
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You forgot to count Roddy, Kulu, Porro...as well as Capoue, Mido, Leonhardsen, Claesen and good ol' Peter Taylor.
 
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Optimistic_Spur said:
Tough call. You would have to say eze because he knows the prem and he's known to be a great guy and character.

But simons potentially has a higher ceiling, no doubt.
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I’d lean Simons just because he’s got world class potential but he might take 6 months to really kick on.

Thing with Eze is he doesn’t play at his best for the whole season either. Usually turns it on down the stretch.
 
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