In a season where Chelsea have reportedly committed to spending £604.7m on 18 new players under new owner Todd Boehly, Liverpool’s rather restricted transfer policy under owners FSG continues to face increasing criticism.
By comparison, the Reds spent an initial £113.9m across the 2022/23 season when bringing in Darwin Nunez (£64m), Calvin Ramsay (£4m), Fabio Carvalho (£5m), Cody Gakpo (£37m), and Arthur Melo (£3.9m loan fee). Of course, having nearly won an unprecedented quadruple last year and won every major honour going since 2019, Jurgen Klopp’s side were hardly starting from as far back as the Londoners.
They had already built their side once, after all. But even then, FSG and Klopp have never resembled the proverbial kid in a candy shop in contrast to Boehly’s scattergun transfer approach.
