Liverpool Transfer Links

[Insidious]

wage wont be an issue.. if you don't have to pay a transfer fee..

In isolation - true.

However we tend to pay a lower wage then reward good performances with some of the best wages around.

We don't want (for talk's sake) to be paying something like £250k-per-week for someone who has not yet performed in our shirt. If we get into the habit of bringing in top quality free transfers and paying out top wages right off the bat, then those who have been contributing for a number of seasons are well within their rights to hammer the proverbial door down and ask for their wages to increase - so we need to be mindful of PSR etc

If the wage packet he wants works for us, then great. He would be a very handy addition. Milner and Matip for example were absolutely excellent servants to the club, though Matip was sadly injured much too often.

[teesred]

I'd be surprised if he leaves Bayern for a free transfer on anything less that 250k a week.
It's literally the whole reason he'd be doing it. A payday.

[Kev0909]

I'd be surprised if he leaves Bayern for a free transfer on anything less that 250k a week.
It's literally the whole reason he'd be doing it. A payday.

probably off to saudi for 600-800k a week

[Insidious]

I'd be surprised if he leaves Bayern for a free transfer on anything less that 250k a week.
It's literally the whole reason he'd be doing it. A payday.

Likely enough - and if that is the case he may not make sense for us, depending on our other business and what we do (or don't do) about allocation of funds to Virg/Salah/Trent.

In terms of wages and salaries, in the 23/24 season we paid out 63% of our revenue at around £387m, which isn't an insubstantial figure.

Indeed, about a £14,000,000 increase on that of the previous season

What I'd be curious to get insight on (hopefully the next accounts paint a picture) is that this £14m rise occurs in spite of a number of departures -

- Firmino
- Henderson
- Milner
- Fabinho
- Oxlade-Chamberlain
- Keita

That represents about £850k (roughly) per week being freed up and then we end up bringing in -

- Mac Allister
- Szoboszlai
- Gravenberch
- Endo

- who absolutely won't be earning a combined (ball-park) £850k per week, so finding where the jump in salaries occured will be interesting and hopefully shed some light into our percentage of revenue situation as we will need to bring that 64% figure down at some point.

Short version - bringing in a big earner may not make massive sense right now - but getting more info from the next set of accounts would be good to help us make judgements on what we can/can't do comfortably within the regulations.

[CCTV]

Think that's down to the amortisation costs/accounting Sid.
If some of our other newer lads extend that should reduce the liabilities.

[miller0863]

The percentage will also decrease greatly with a Champions League season.

[jr81]

Think that's down to the amortisation costs/accounting Sid.
If some of our other newer lads extend that should reduce the liabilities.

That Romano guy on twitter claiming we came very close to selling nunez in January to a Saudi team. Deal didn't go ahead because we couldn't get a replacement and slot wanted to hold onto what he had.

Looks like nunez will be off come the summer if true.

He finished off the tweet with "a busy summer ahead for Liverpool". Definitly have heard that before from the media.

[Kev0909]

Sancet @ athletic bilbao looks a player, but a AMC isn't needed.

Dani Vivian looks good too, but could he do it in the prem?

Spanish league very interesting so far this season, that title race looks amazing

[Kev0909]

So FSG have been pretty, "skint" for a while, any chance we'll spend big in the summer?

Surely, we have the money for it this summer Surely? slots first proper window after seeing the team.

Whatever happens with the prem and champions league, if we win either or come close... it doesn't matter, we need to build on it, because you can sure as hell expect arsenal to sign a top striker, city to improve, etc etc if we stand still and don't add top quality to the squad I can see us coming 3rd next season, and back into the "Finishing top four is a good season" and that's all we expect. especially with VVD&Salah getting older, sooner or later, the book needs to come out and we need to spend, simple as that.

[justincredible]

For Steveo....

https://x.com/JATTSOPRANO316/status/1895403501196574783