Liverpool enter the 2026/27 season with some positions to fill in their squad, and after an expensive summer in 2025-26, they may need to reach deep into their pockets to add to a competitive squad for Andoni Iraola to compete in his first season as Liverpool manager.
Rumours link Liverpool to a €120m+ pursuit of PSG winger Bradley Barcola. This deal if it happens, would fall within this top 10.
Here is a list of the top 10 most expensive arrivals for Liverpool according to [Transfermarkt](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-liverpool/transferrekorde/verein/31).
Diaz joined Liverpool from Porto in January 2022 and became an instant fan favourite with his high pressing that worked incredibly effectively under Jurgen Klopp. He started in the Champions League final that season and would leave after the club picked up the title under Arne Slot in 2025. This was Diaz’s most effective season at Liverpool, scoring 13 goals. Liverpool sold Diaz for a rumoured €75m to Bayern Munich, where he went on to win the title in his first season.
Naby Keita’s signing for Liverpool was a total disaster. He was a highly anticipated signing by Jürgen Klopp, and Liverpool agreed to the transfer a year in advance. With injury and fitness issues, he left the club with only 129 games played in five seasons. He did, however, miss 113 games through injury in his time at the club.
The new Liverpool centre-back had his deal confirmed last year. He will look to form a solid partnership with Virgil van Dijk that can help Liverpool improve from their fifth-placed finish in 2025/26.
Szoboszlai was the key man for Liverpool as they finished fifth in the 2025/26 season. The Hungarian is going to take up a key role in the heavy pressing of Andoni Iraola. His most memorable moments have come from deadball situations. This time a more successful signing from Leipzig than Keita, who has already appeared on the list.
Alisson has been one of the most crucial signings to Liverpool’s recent period of success. He came into the club after the Loris Karius disaster in the Champions League final. He has played 333 games for Liverpool so far and kept 137 clean sheets. He helped Liverpool to two Premier League titles and their Champions League win in 2019.
Van Dijk is the current club captain and joined the club in January 2018, having failed to capture his signature the season before. His integration into the squad made an immediate impact to Liverpool. They reached the Champions League final that summer, and like Alisson would go on to win two Premier League titles and a Champions League for the club.
Nunez was a marmite figure for Liverpool fans. His lack of clinical finishing when in front of goal made it difficult to watch at times. On the other hand, he was a box-office player to watch. After three seasons at the club, he left for a fee of €53m ahead of the 25/26. His amortised profit allowed Liverpool to bring in three players in the same window that were more expensive.
Ekitike was one of Liverpool’s best players last season, but an unfortunate injury will see him miss the beginning of the 2026/27 season.
He scored 11 Premier League goals in his opening campaign in Red, this was four more than any other player in the Liverpool squad and was joint-twelfth in the league overall for goals.
Wirtz was the second player on the list that came in last summer and at the time was the most expensive player in Liverpool’s history. He came in from Bayer Leverkusen and became particularly well known when Leverkusen had their invincible season. Wirtz scored five goals in his first Premier League season, but had spoken in the summer of how he was surprised by the physical nature of the league and has been working on that.
Alexander Isak is the most expensive signing in Liverpool history, and along with Ekitike and Wirtz, they all came in during the same window. Isak came into Liverpool with lack of match fitness due to the transfer saga that saw him exclude himself from Newcastle training. Just as he found his feet with a great goal against Spurs, the follow-through challenge by Micky van de Ven broke the striker’s leg, and he missed the majority of the season. He only played 714 minutes in the Premier League and scored three goals.