Liverpool in unusual transfer frenzy

"You don't change a winning team." With four titles in the 2024-2025 season, Paris Saint-Germain, accustomed to opening the checkbook every summer transfer window, seems to have made this adage its own – with only one major signing this off-season, so far: French goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier . Conversely, Liverpool, the current Premier League winners, have been spending lavishly since the transfer window opened.

In the Community Shield – which pits the English football champions against the FA Cup winners – on Sunday, August 10, against Crystal Palace, the Merseyside club will field four players recruited since the beginning of July. For a total amount of more than 300 million euros, including 125 million for Florian Wirtz, a 22-year-old German attacking midfielder, and 95 million for Hugo Ekitike, a 23-year-old French striker. This is somewhat surprising for a club known for its parsimony.

" If you look at it this summer, it might seem unusual in terms of the overall investment. But if you look at the years as a whole, you'll see that sometimes we've spent a lot and sometimes we've spent a little," Reds CEO Billy Hogan told US outlet The Athletic . The Premier League is arguably the most lucrative league in the world, and with that windfall, its players regularly flood the market with cash in the off-season.

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