When Arne Slot came out from Liverpool's dressing room after the last match of the last season, his face still smiled brightly and still echoed the celebration songs. Of course, Slot received an indispensable question about how he would plan to build a club based on the success of the Premier League championship.
“The revolutionary changes, you probably won't see it,” Liverpool's coach said. “It would be a bit strange if you won the tournament but changed too much.”
It is a suitable answer to the reputation of Slot, as well as the image of a club that has shown much more restraint than most competitors in the transfer market in recent years, both in terms of spending and the number of players brought back.
But what happens this summer can be classified as “revolution” – not only according to Liverpool's standards, but also according to the standards of the champion teams in general. They signed a contract with Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong, Milos Kerkez and Hugo Ekitike with a total value of more than £ 250 million, and is still pursuing Newcastle striker Alexander Isak with a record fee in the UK, higher than the £ 116 million for Wirtz.
Even without Isak, Liverpool was the most powerful spending team in the Premier League this summer, although it had earned about 168 million pounds from the sale of Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez, Trent Alexander-Arnold, CaoMhin Kelleher, Jarell Quanusah and some other players. Before the transfer window closed on September 1, The Reds hoped to sign more with Isak and a new center -back – such as Parma's young talent Giovanni Leoni, while Kostas Tsimikas, Harvey Elliott and Federico Chiesa were likely to leave.
Since the beginning of this century, only once (2018) Liverpool is the most expensive team in the H&E EG season transfer window
