Price tag is only ONE side of a deal

RICHARD Hughes has stressed the importance of not thinking about transfer fees as he opened up on Liverpool's transfer strategy this summer.

- By CONNOR O'NEILL ECHO Reporter

When it came to predicting who would be the big Premier League spenders, few would have considered Liverpool, but in the end, they spent £446m on new recruits.

The outlay was the most ever spent by a Premier League club in a single window, eclipsing the £434.5m spent by Chelsea in the summer of 2023.

Alexander Isak, Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Jeremie Frimpong, Milos Kerkez and Giovanni Leoni all moved to the Premier League champions, as Arne Slot’s squad underwent a major overhaul.

And speaking publicly for the first time since Slot’s first Liverpool press conference last summer, Hughes explained why the club targeted the players they did, despite the huge fees involved.

"As best you can, you have to detach yourself from what the transfer fee is likely to be," he told the IMG x RedBird Summit.