What is set to be a busy summer of transfer activity for Liverpool kicked off in earnest on Thursday with the announcement of a deal to sign Alexis Mac Allister from Brighton & Hove Albion.
The 24-year-old Argentinian international, a World Cup winner back in December, arrives at Anfield on the back of a superb stint in East Sussex where he proved himself as an elite Premier League midfielder whose services had been courted by some of the Reds’ major rivals.
There was no transfer battle in the end, no need to keep upping offers in an attempt to gazump an opponent, as had been feared in the club’s pursuit of Jude Bellingham that they ended up stepping back from. Liverpool managed to bag the first signing of the summer for a bargain of £35m, a sum that is a fraction of what some of their rivals have spent in more recent times on players of a lesser pedigree. To put the sum into some context, it is less than relegated Leeds United paid to land striker Georginio Rutter from Hoffenheim in January.
