Liverpool have been winning time and time again on the summer transfer front this year, with Richard Hughes pulling off a number of masterclass moves in the market.
Liverpool have made some amazing signings this summer, but they also deserve credit for how they’ve gone about offloading players surplus to requirements.
Jarell Quansah left for Bayer Leverkusen in a £35million deal, for instance, while Real Madrid actually gave Liverpool £10million to sign Trent Alexander-Arnold before the Club World Cup.
Now, Hughes has pulled off another transfer masterclass which edges Liverpool closer to the £150million mark in player sales this summer.
Tyler Morton of Liverpool during a training session at AXA Training Centre on July 12, 2023 in Kirkby, England.
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Liverpool sell Tyler Morton to Lyon for £15million
On Tuesday, Liverpool and Lyon confirmed that Tyler Morton has swapped Anfield for the Groupama Stadium in a deal reportedly worth £15million.
Morton’s sale takes Liverpool up to the £145million mark in terms of their player sales this summer.
In addition, Morton’s move constitutes another ‘pure profit’ deal for Liverpool with regards to PSR.
And then you have the fact that £15million for an academy graduate who hasn’t had all that much game time for Liverpool is a very good sum.
Furthermore, it has been reported by GFFN that the deal includes a 10 percent sell-on clause.
This means the Reds stand to profit further if, say, Morton sealed a big move to another Premier League side in a few years’ time.
Jurgen Klopp and Arne Slot have never shied away from giving academy graduates plenty of game time and letting them prove they have what it takes to shine at Liverpool.
This also puts them in the shop window and enables them to make big career moves, which in turn means more profit for Liverpool.
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How Liverpool are capable of signing so many players this summer
Liverpool have been extremely well-managed in recent years, putting them in the healthy financial position they’re in this summer.
The Reds have racked up transfer fees of £295million this summer, though additional fees are estimated to take their spending to around £314million, according to The Athletic.
However, with that spending amortised over the next five years while sales are booked immediately for any financial year, it means Liverpool have actually made a net profit.
Luis Diaz’s move to Bayern Munich is worth around £65.6million and represents a profit of £48.1million in Liverpool’s accounts, based on his remaining ‘book value’ of around £17.5million.
In addition, the sales of Morton, Quansah, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Caoimhin Kelleher and Nat Phillips all count as ‘pure profit’.
Liverpool are also expected to get back into profit in the financial year just finished, with revenues said to be ‘almost certain to be above £700million’.
Indeed, Liverpool are said to be able to spend another £200million in the market this summer and still be PSR compliant.