Liverpool Should Take Innovative Approach to Transfers
Understanding Receivables Finance in Football
Liverpool are strongly linked with RB Leipzig midfield dynamo, Dominik Szoboszlai. Reports have suggested the player's contract contains a release clause worth £60m that can only be activated if paid in full.
Paying such a fee up-front would be beyond LFC, surely? Not really.
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Success for LFC's Financial Model Despite a Disappointing Season
In the world of football, where money talks louder than ever before, Liverpool Football Club's financial health and wage bill under Fenway Sports Group (FSG) offer an intriguing study. Even as the team ended a disappointing season, missing out on the Champions League and finishing fifth,...
Players Leaving Will Hugely Ease LFC's Payroll
As the mercury begins to rise, the fervour surrounding Liverpool FC is set to ignite a blockbuster summer, with the club priming itself for some critical manoeuvres in the transfer market. As part of the pre-season preparations, the Reds have made significant strides, trimming an eye-watering £535k off...
The transfer market is changing and it’s been on the cards for a while now.
Players are running down their deals in a bid to get bigger contracts elsewhere. We haven’t entered the American sports market realm yet, but we can’t be far away from it. In the near future, transfer fees will be a...
Amidst the furore of the January transfer window, the UEFA European Club Footballing Landscape report was published, a report which UEFA assert is 'like no other publication of its kind'. In terms of scope and depth though, it supersedes the analysis of the oft-quoted Deloitte Money League, which I broke down with respect to...
So the word on the street is that Liverpool will have to offer, and are offering, £200k a week in order to secure the signature of Southampton central-defender Virgil Van Dijk. And if it’s true, and if the club can get the deal over the line, neither of which are 100% certain just yet,...
The feeling on social media around Liverpool is a little eerie as of late. The club have made some impressive signings in Loris Karius and Sadio Mane and look set to practically recoup what they spent on Christian Benteke yet the supporters online aren't how you'd imagine them to be after such news. They're...
A financial analysis of LFC’s 2014-2015 transfers
This article looks at Liverpool’s transfer activity last summer and asks whether it is financially viable to cut our losses on certain players who have flattered to deceive and how selling such players could potentially impact the club’s purchasing power for the upcoming transfer window.
As the curtain falls...
Par, such a simple and non-offensive word.
Just 3 little letters, it's hard to get upset by a word like Par isn't it?
Well thats what you would have thought this time last week. Â However, since a certain Mr Rodgers uttered that non-offensive little word in a press conference, I've seen it written more times than...
I've been thinking about writing something on this for a while, the way transfers work today - or don't in many cases, the seemingly infinite variables and how they differ from those those of yesteryear, and the carefree days of yore - if you believe in all that. There was however an obvious snag,...
