Right player, right system, right coach; Try not to worry too much about the money. That was the message from Sporting Director Richard Hughes of Liverpool when he outlined the thinking behind the record Summer Transfer of the Anfield Club.
Despite Virgil van Dijk’s prediction last spring that it would be a “big summer” for Liverpool in the transfer market, few could have imagined that the Premier League champions were about to start the biggest expenses ever seen in European football.
By the time Jeremie Frimpong’s £ 29.5 million signing of Bayer Leverkusen was confirmed, five days after Van Dijk had lifted the league trophy on the last day of the season, the chatter on MerseSide was completely about the threatening arrival of his Bayena Team-Mate Florian Wirtz in a £ 116m deal.
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It was a club platform deal, but more would come. First Milos Kerkez from Bournemouth arrived for £ 40 million and came when Eintracht Frankfurt -Spits Hugo Ekitike, whose final price tag could reach £ 79 million. Giovanni Leoni’s £ 26 million signing of Parma answered the long -term desire for a young defender who could be developed, but all the time the sound around Alexander Isak of Newcastle became louder.
After a long -term saga, a £ 125 deal was finally closed for the Sweden International on the Deadline Day of Transfer, the Liverpool transfer record for the second time in weeks and brought the total summer expenses of the club to £ 415 million. It was an unprecedented amount, an amount that the record of £ 400 million earlier by Chelsea Two Summers previously overshadowed, but Richards claimed that it was recently consistent with the transfer strategy of the club.
“As good as you can, you should release yourself from what the transfer costs will probably be,” said Hughes, the former technical director of Bournemouth who arrived in Anfield last season, on the IMG X Redbird Summit in the Cotswolds on Thursday evening.
“First and foremost, the identification of the right player has a lot important for the right system for the right head coach, and I think this is not something that is necessarily new to the football club and his property.
Richard Hughes: ‘Liverpool pays what we believe is that fair market value is’
‘If you look at what has been paid for Alisson Becker [a £66.8m arrival from Roma in July 2018] and Virgil van Dijk [signed from Southampton for £75m in January 2018] In history, and that compares what that would be in 2025 money, you are not far away from where you are with some of the reimbursements spent this summer.
“We pay what we are a fair market value for a player based on age and based on the need for that person to fit into the team,” Hughes added, according to athletics.
“In the fullness of time we hope that, instead of talking about what a huge fee it is, it was true for the football club for the football club when we make that assessment in the future. And because of the age of the players we have bought, we are convinced that this will be the case.”
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