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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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CJJ said:
This is 'so far' including the £200m or so this summer:

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Man City leapfrog Liverpool in net spend table with January splurge

Forget the league table, it's all about the Premier League net spend table. And neither Man City nor Liverpool are in top five.
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Now do wages sure.
 
FightingIllini said:
That's not what the Deloitte figures say.

And I don't want to be a check your sources guy, but



We're losing the forest for the trees here though.

We can sign Alexander Isak. We could have signed Florian Wirtz. Maybe couldn't have done both, certainly can't sign 11 of those guys, but the club's strategy has conspicuously avoided going anywhere near the maximum of what is possible for a marquee individual acquisition with our financial capacity.
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Are you mad? Guaranteed Leeds
 
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How can Liverpool afford Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike?

How are the Premier League champions able to spend so big on so many players and does it impact their PSR prospects?
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Sorry that this is paywalled, there is a graphic in here that contextualizes the whole "Liverpool have built up for this summer and Spurs have had a higher net spend" very well

At the end of 2023-24 the cost of assembling Liverpool’s squad, across transfer and agent fees, was £749.4m, the seventh most expensive squad in the world but well behind Chelsea (£1.4bn), Manchester City (£1.1bn), Manchester United (£943.9m) and Woolwich (£882.4m).

Correspondingly, annual amortisation costs hitting the club’s books were well below domestic peers; Liverpool’s amortisation bill of £114.5m last year was over £20m behind Spurs and £75m less than Chelsea. After a quiet summer in 2024, amortisation won’t have ticked up much, if at all.

Wirtz’s £100m fee, plus assumed agent fees on top of around 10 per cent, alongside a four per cent transfer levy payable to the Premier League by clubs on all new signings, will add £21.4m to Liverpool’s 2025-26 amortisation bill, with a further £22.7m per season following thereafter until 2029-30 (a small sliver, £1.9m, will fall into 2030-31 as a result of the club’s May 31 accounting date).
The deal for Ekitike, meanwhile, adds a further £13.4m to 2025-26, £15.7m a season to the end of 2029-30 and around £2.3m into 2030-31 (despite signing a six-year deal, Premier League and UEFA rules mean his fee can only be spread over five years for PSR purposes). Alongside the recent signings of Frimpong and Kerkez, Liverpool have added around £54m a season onto their amortisation costs, or almost half what their amortisation bill was in 2023-24.

Even so, that would still only push them a smidge ahead of Manchester City’s bill that year, who have spent plenty themselves recently. Liverpool will have narrowed the gap in amortisation costs to the rest of the ‘big six’, and have possibly surpassed Spurs.
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Tl;dr, it is true, but the effect adds up to a pretty small difference that is being reversed by this summer's splurge from Liverpool.
 
FightingIllini said:
That's not what the Deloitte figures say.

And I don't want to be a check your sources guy, but



We're losing the forest for the trees here though.

We can sign Alexander Isak. We could have signed Florian Wirtz. Maybe couldn't have done both, certainly can't sign 11 of those guys, but the club's strategy has conspicuously avoided going anywhere near the maximum of what is possible for a marquee individual acquisition with our financial capacity.
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If the player agrees to the terms of the contract we offer and wants to sign for us ....
 
CJJ said:
The answer, as I'm sure you know John, is that we don't.

Not that you've shown a lot of understanding of finances so far, but liverpool had an offer turned down for £120m already. I have no idea why you would even choose to suggest we have that kind of money floating around
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Depends on who you mean by 'we'.....Levy certainly does not but he's the patsy in the (cheese) room. The people (our owners)who really have the money are simply not that interested in forking out vast amounts of wonga unless there is a guaranteed future return involved.

I know I'm probably flogging a dead (hercules) horse here but how can two opposing factions be so far apart in their outlook yet be so close in their delusion?

ENIC are never going to change their business model and no amount of protests are ever going to remove them unless the price is right.

Therefore the best thing the anti and pro brigade can do is to stew in their own shit & pi$$ in their armchairs while us mugs carry on supporting the primma donna's on the field.
 
Bill-bao Bob said:
Cos I don't wanna be those clubs. Every one of those clubs mentioned have a horrible underbelly - yet you get loads on here, every transfer window, daydreaming that we were like them.

It's the behaviour of children.

Fact is we don't know how this window has gone til it's well past closed.

It's social media/influencer performative culture gone mad.

'Waaaaaaaaah United have signed a player! Waaaaaahhhh Liverpool have signed a player! Look how wonderful they are! Why can't we be like them?'

Get a grip.
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You lot say this bullshit every summer and every summer were left short and the ones who were moaning about it earlier and saw it coming are proven right.

How dare fans aspire for their club to actually behave like a big club for one fucking summer window, what children we are. But go on keep caping for this ownership whilst they charge us ticket prices on par with clubs who actually show ambition in the transfer market.
 
Richard Arlison said:
It’s exactly about the point you making because the total cost of a transfer isn’t just the transfer fee. Wages and agents fees also need to be accounted for. Liverpools total spending on their squad has been a lot more than ours for the last how many years
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Lol. So the MGW bid is bollocks to you, despite being very visible and widely reported, but Liverpool's totally opaque transfer finances are crystal clear and factual.

As if that isn't a case of confirmation bias or backfire effect, I don't know what is...

Enlighten us how their net spend of -£30m last season was actually more than our £91m net spend.

Did they give Chiesa's agent their PL prize money?
 
ginola92 said:
You lot say this bullshit every summer and every summer were left short and the ones who were moaning about it earlier and saw it coming are proven right.

How dare fans aspire for their club to actually behave like a big club for one fucking summer window, what children we are. But go on keep caping for this ownership whilst they charge us ticket prices on par with clubs who actually show ambition in the transfer market.
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Every transfer window we hear that we should be more like some other team.

Not long ago people were sucking off Everton's window.

If the window closes and people think we've not done enough then fine...have a good rant.

There's still a month to go though and people are crying cos the club aren't informing them directly of what deals are being worked on.
 
CJJ said:
Lol. So the MGW bid is bollocks to you, despite being very visible and widely reported, but Liverpool's totally opaque transfer finances are crystal clear and factual.

As if that isn't a case of confirmation bias or backfire effect, I don't know what is...

Enlighten us how their net spend of -£30m last season was actually more than our £91m net spend.

Did they give Chiesa's agent their PL prize money?
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What does visible and widely reported even mean?

It’s transfer season, 99% of it is utter wank
 
citizenabel said:
Depends on who you mean by 'we'.....Levy certainly does not but he's the patsy in the (cheese) room. The people (our owners)who really have the money are simply not that interested in forking out vast amounts of wonga unless there is a guaranteed future return involved.

I know I'm probably flogging a dead (hercules) horse here but how can two opposing factions be so far apart in their outlook yet be so close in their delusion?

ENIC are never going to change their business model and no amount of protests are ever going to remove them unless the price is right.

Therefore the best thing the anti and pro brigade can do is to stew in their own shit & pi$$ in their armchairs while us mugs carry on supporting the primma donna's on the field.
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Or - after 24 years people just accept that ENIC are a holding company and have no money, and Joe Lewis (as the ultimate owner with the cash) has no interest in investing like that, thus far.

I mean, no one protests against the actual puppeteer - they just go after the puppet.
 
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