No false PROFITS as Reds look to generate market boost

ACADEMY HAS WIND IN ITS SAILS AGAIN

- By IAN DOYLE

IVERPOOL may have dominated the Premier League this season to win a record-equalling 20th championship.

But there was one accolade they had willingly surrendered just weeks into the new campaign.

The failure to strengthen the first-team squad for the campaign, save the late addition of Federico Chiesa, saw the Reds well out of the running for the prize of winning the transfer window, the award so cherished by a particular section of the football fanbase.

That Liverpool went on to such success under new boss Arne Slot a season during which Chiesa totalled just 104 minutes of Premier League action - suggests the club were right not to overly tinker with the playing staff given the tumult happening behind the scenes in the wake of Jurgen Klopp's departure.

But there was some significant transfer business completed by the Reds in terms of outgoings.

And that continued a trend that will almost certainly remain this summer.

Fabio Carvalho, Sepp van den Berg, Bobby Clark and Harvey Blair were sold for a combined outlay that could ultimately net Liverpool more than £62million.

That represents a profit of around £50m on a quartet of players who managed 40 senior appearances between them with the Reds, more than half of which were accrued by Carvalho during 2022/23.

While Blair came through the youth rank,s the other three were bought for relatively small amounts, Clark initially for the Academy.