03 Sep 2026 01:11:51
Top 10 net spend this window;
Liverpool £200m
Spurs £173m
Ipswich £173m
City £162m
Arsenal £138m
Hull £133m
Coventry £123m
Utd £101m
Brentford £95m
Fulham £70m
Top 8 gross spenders last 3 seasons:
Chelsea- £849m
Liverpool- £678m
City- £650m
Spurs- £627m
Newcastle- £566m
Utd- £543m
Arsenal- £539m
Villa- £440m
Top 8 net spend last 3 seasons:
Liverpool £422m
Arsenal £404m
Spurs £403m
Utd £296m
City £175m
Newcastle £110m
Chelsea +£4m profit
Villa +£45m profit
{Ed666's Note - All this money spent And still at least 3 players short of challenging
03 Sep 2026 05:22:17
FSG don’t spend.
03 Sep 2026 06:20:44
3 of the top 5 most expensive PL footballers ever! Imagine that burden if they don’t work out. ?
03 Sep 2026 06:41:19
Again, another post that makes me remember what legendary work Klopp did! When we spent, we spent carefully. Even players that were shifted were sold at a healthy rate. Switch to the present day, we sell TAA for 10, Jones for 30, zero for Konate & so on. When people accused him of deep loyalty for Hendo for giving him a new contract, he shipped him, Fabinho, & replaced the entire midfield in one go.
The guy was a generational coach. The best I have seen. It is not that he did everything but his presence made others do their job well. Someone like Edwards & maybe Lijnders even end up thinking that it is because of them but it was still Klopp. He made them do their jobs better. Truly a legendary leader. Hopefully AI comes close!
03 Sep 2026 06:59:13
Putting aside the 115, you’ve got to admire how City operate. Real quality in the door, never short of players, never short of quality, never any drama and apparently spend less than most net. ?
Got to be some secret payments happening somewhere.
03 Sep 2026 07:14:03
Our sales are less because our fringe players are crap to the outside world (Endo, Chiesa etc). Klopp had to work with a shoestring budget at Liverpool. It was always about selling a first teamer to buying a first teamer. FSG has never had a proper 25-man squad for any manager. A good first eleven followed by a poor and weak bench (from Shaqiri to Chiesa).
03 Sep 2026 07:23:11
Stephen Caulker? Darwin Nunez? Naby Keita? Arthur Melo? Ozan Kabak? Ben Davies?
Some thought went into those transfers.
03 Sep 2026 07:27:30
I have seen this about spending, though I fail to see how it is so much this summer. £106m on Barcola, was it £34m Munoz and approx £35m on the two young players? Araujo loan and Jacquet were bought in January. Barcola's potential full fee can't be included as the extra isn't paid yet. When you minus the sale of Curtis Jones, surely the figure is closer to £140m?
Also worth noting the number of players on huge contracts that have left the club in the past few seasons.
This summer alone, I would guess that the wage outlay before purchases was reduced by something like 750k to 1m a week.
I'm not disputing that the club has pumped in money the last 3 seasons, but I do feel figures can easily be manipulated to suit a narrative.
Cheers
03 Sep 2026 08:05:46
Greggers, we agreed to buy Jacquet in January but the sale went through this summer so is included. You are correct about the huge wages saved. Plus, like others mentioned, a lot of the other teams have sold their assets very well.
03 Sep 2026 08:08:07
We’ve spent £84m net per window since Klopp left. I’d imagine a few teams have averaged more than that. When people see the money spent over the last three windows they forget the profit we made in the two before that. Makes the league win an even greater achievement.
03 Sep 2026 08:26:42
Well they should have spent some more in order to get the players we actually require.
03 Sep 2026 08:31:52
Excluding Salah, who else was on huge wages, compared to the players we’ve just purchased?
{Ed025's Note - VVD, Gakpo and Grav to name 3..
03 Sep 2026 08:53:08
We need to stop harking back to Klopp like he was some kind of messiah who never made a mistake. He made plenty of mistakes and I'm sure he'd be the first to admit it.
Let's not forget in the 2 seasons before he left we finished 5th and 3rd. In Klopp's 9 year tenure we won the title once.
Slot won the title once (I won't entertain anyone who says 'but it was Klopp's team'. Tell me you know nothing about football without telling me you know nothing about football) and he finished 5th once and got sacked. He had to lift a team who had just gone from the ultimate high to the ultimate low in the space of 3 months whilst trying to bed in a host of new players, some of whom had arrived not in the best shape.
Our main player and talisman was revolting against him in public because he was playing crap and deservedly got dropped.
I'm not saying he shouldn't have been sacked or that he was better than Klopp, he obviously wasn't but I'm trying to add some context to these posts about how great Klopp was and people's unrealistic expectations since he left.
Klopp is a genius and one of the best managers we've ever had. He's up there with Shanks, Paisley, Fagan and Dalglish but even he got it wrong from time to time and needed patience before he got it right.
During Klopp's tenure we never once filled all the gaps in the squad in one transfer window. In fact I don't know of any team in the world who has ever done that. So why did we expect that to happen this summer?
Iraola has an excellent squad which is 100% capable of challenging for the title. He just needs to get them performing consistently enough to do it.
You don't need worldies in every position you're not playing PSG every week. You just need the team to be structured enough to beat the likes of Brentford, Bournemouth etc. with that bit of extra quality to get through the bigger and tighter games.
We have the extra quality but we don't have the structure, that's what Iraola was employed to bring.
{Ed025's Note - wow...i thought he was a great manager RSO and you not only won things but played some great entertaining football myself mate, this seems like a post an Evertonian would send.. :)
03 Sep 2026 08:54:09
They haven't left Ed
{Ed025's Note - oh sorry Irish i thought you meant that were still here..
03 Sep 2026 09:37:34
Indeed, Faith. These figures all came from the GoFundMe account the club put up years ago.
03 Sep 2026 09:42:02
Robertson and Konate were on £150k+, Elliott and Jones probably a combined £150k. Don’t forget Calvin Ramsey, the savings we will make on Irn Bru and haggis will be huge.
03 Sep 2026 03:18:00
Exactly ed too much money spent on star players. 360m on Isak, Wirtz and Barcola. That's 6 60m players.
{Ed666's Note - I agree and the squad would have been deeper for it. Oh well hindsight is a beautiful thing.
03 Sep 2026 04:14:01
Agreed Ed. I think another issue that we failed to address is to move players on. I was all for giving the players a clean slate once Andoni came in but it was quite clear after the preseason tour that Chiesa and Endo weren't favoured at all. How they are still with us at the end of the window just further highlights the incompetence of the STC. We could also have tried to sell both Ramsay or Elliott for low fees like we did for Baj but only managed to get loans for either of them.
Although I'm not so sure the numbers above are accurate. I would have thought that Spurs spent more since they replaced almost their entire starting 11. Granted a few are loans with obligations to buy but the numbers still seemed low to me
{Ed666's Note - Endo will be gone in the summer if not January and I think we have Chiesa for life because he’s on absurd wages and no one’s going to take a risk on him with his injury record unless we subsidize his wages or give him a free. He has to go down as one of the biggest mistakes in Liverpool transfer history.
03 Sep 2026 08:00:44
Horrendous reading Ed666
{Ed666's Note - mind boggling mate