Your Liverpool evening headlines for Tuesday, February 14.
Liverpool could free up £85m for summer rebuild as FSG's next moves telling
Looking at the amortisation figures set to disappear, Naby Keita is expected to depart this summer, his £52.75m transfer fee having been amortised at £10.55m per year in the club accounts. He could be joined by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who arrived from Arsenal in 2017 for £35m. Oxlade-Chamberlain's contract initially ran for five years, amortised at £7m per year, but he signed a new deal in 2019 to take him through to 2023. That new deal, two years into his Reds career, when he had already had £14m amortised, made the remaining balance of his transfer £21m (£5.25m for each year of the four years he had left on his contract).
Add to that the departure of Takumi Minamino last summer for £15.4m, an £8.2m profit, then it is a further £1.45m shaved off the amortised costs for the club in the accounts. Any new deal for Roberto Firmino, signed in 2015 for £22m and who had a contract extension in 2018, would make any remaining amortised cost of his initial deal negligible.
Using the potential exits of Keita and Oxlade-Chamberlain, as well as the departure of Minamino last summer, sees around £17.25m drop off the balance sheet for Liverpool across both the 2021/22 and 2022/23 accounting periods. That is the same as an £85m transfer fee amortised over five years.
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Will Ferrell leaves Liverpool journalists laughing as Darwin Nunez taunts Everton
While Wrexham have established themselves as the football home for Hollywood funnymen in recent years, Anfield was still able to play host to an A-lister of its own on Monday night in Will Ferrell.
The Anchorman star continued his recent tour of the Premier League by pitching up on Merseyside and was able to meet the Reds team after the game as they celebrated a confidence-boosting victory over their local rivals.
Ferrell was happy to get pictures with various staff members from the club too before making his exit, but it was his brief interaction with the media that surely got the actor's biggest laugh of the night. As he passed through the area where the media are permitted to chat to the players who are happy to give up a few minutes of their time, Ferrell earned a collective chuckle from the assembled press as he briefly took on the persona of a Liverpool footballer who was just too busy to speak.
"Sorry guys, sorry guys, I've just got no time!" he joked as he breezed past the handful of journalists waiting to speak to members of the Liverpool and Everton squads. A surreal moment.
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