Where Liverpool ranked in Premier League summer transfer window spending table

James Quinlan
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A new era at Liverpool coincided with the opening of the transfer window, paired with many other factors that were always going to make this a period of uncertainty. Now the club have emerged from the other side with an outcome few would have predicted months ago.

Jurgen Klopp left the side to Arne Slot in fine condition with room spare for fine tuning the existing tools, along with recruitment at the new regime's discretion. They always maintained that an 'opportunistic' approach would be the short-term solution for the Reds, and this was certainly the case with the £10m recruitment of Federico Chiesa from Juventus and the £30m pre-agreement installed for Giorgi Mamardashvili's arrival next summer.

But an attacker and goalkeeper were never seen as the priority from the outside looking in - if anything, a central defender and defensive midfielder were the key areas to address. The latter was attempted to be remedied in intense negotiations for Martin Zubimendi, though that deal collapsed and the Spaniard stayed at Real Sociedad.

Happy to wait, Richard Hughes also went about the business of securing a number of key departures, building up the funds to be used when the appropriate time comes. So without further ado, the Liverpool ECHO analyses the Reds finishing position in the summer 2023 transfer window financial table...

Expenditure

  1. Chelsea - £200.8m

  2. Brighton - £194.6m

  3. Man United - £180.5m

  4. Aston Villa - £148.3m

  5. Tottenham - £125.3m

  6. West Ham - £121.5m

  7. Ipswich Town - £106.4m

  8. Southampton - £98.6m

  9. Nottingham Forest - £93.8m

  10. Arsenal - £91.6m

  11. Bournemouth - £87.8m

  12. Brentford - £82.4m

  13. Fulham - £77m

  14. Leicester City - £73m

  15. Crystal Palace - £65.4m

  16. Wolves - £62.6m

  17. Newcastle - £57.4m

  18. Everton - £42.2m

  19. Liverpool - £35.3m

  20. Man City - £21m

Via Transfermarkt, the Reds minimal spend come the 11pm deadline on Friday means they sit 19th out of 20 Premier League clubs in the expenditure standings. Only reigning Champions Man City have spent less this summer.

The gap between the Reds and top spenders Chelsea - who signed 11 players - stands at £165.5m.

Interestingly, the one thing this summer window managed to do is buck the trending upwards expenditure on the whole. This summer saw all 20 clubs combined spend less than the 2022 and 2023 summer windows.

Net spend

Boasting only the 16th largest income this window with a total of £47m, Liverpool's restricted activity is proven in the numbers. But that said, their net spend over the course of the window gives them a profit of £5m, beaten only by City, Everton, Wolves, Palace and Newcastle.

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