- Liverpool is one of the teams that often produce and develop good players and release them on the market.
- There are both those who move out and fail and those who succeed.
- The next 10 players are the most expensive transfers in club history
Throughout the past, Liverpool, a giant club in the English Premier League, may not always do business in transferring players with the expectation of making a profit. But many times, ordinary players that are bought can be raised to become superstars and leave the team with a huge transfer fee.
And here are the 10 players that the Reds have had the most success with in terms of the value. They have received in return. Who are they? Let’s take a look.
10. Mamadou Sakho (£26m)
After being axed by former manager Jürgen Klopp on a number of occasions towards the end of the 2015/16 season due to disciplinary issues. It was clear that Sakho would be leaving Anfield. Despite being one of the best defenders at the time.
On deadline day in January 2017, the French centre-back joined Crystal Palace on loan. Before moving permanently in the summer. Sakho spent three seasons at Liverpool, making 80 appearances in all competitions and scoring three goals.
9. Fabio Carvalho (£27.5m)
The Portuguese playmaker joined Liverpool from Fulham in 2022 and has had loan spells at RB Leipzig and Hull City after failing to break into the Reds’ first-team squad this summer. Carvalho,
22, was sold to Brentford along with fellow Liverpool defender Sepp van den Berg, giving the pair more playing time to prove themselves.
8. Xabi Alonso (30 million pounds)
It was a long and drawn out transfer saga between Liverpool and Real Madrid, which finally ended with Alonso joining Los Blancos after five years as a key player under former manager Rafa Benitez.
Of course, everyone knows that it all started when Benitez tried to offload Alonso and brought in Gareth Barry, a midfielder from Aston Villa, to join the โปรโมชั่น ufabet team, but it was not successful. Then Alberto Aquilani came from Roma, but it was not a replacement for Alonso.
7. Christian Benteke (£32m)
Back in the summer of 2015, former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers was keen to sign Benteke from Villa, but the Belgian was never really what Liverpool wanted and he found a better fit by joining Palace in 2017. Benteke lasted
just one year at Liverpool, scoring 10 goals, before moving to Palace for the same fee as the Reds, with many describing him as lucky not to have made a loss.
6. Sadio Mane (35 million pounds)
One of Liverpool’s greatest ever players of the last decade, Mane had just one year left on his current deal in the summer of 2022 and was keen to find a new challenge after seven years at the club, and he eventually joined Bayern Munich as he had hoped.
However, the 32-year-old Senegalese winger failed to make an impact at Bayern and struggled to make the switch to Saudi Arabian Pro League side Al Nassr last season.
5. Fabinho (£40m)
In his final season with Liverpool, Fabinho was no longer the top-class defensive midfielder we knew. The Samba player was not in the same physical condition as before, often plagued by injuries, was slow and his form was severely declining.
Liverpool knew this situation and agreed to let the 30-year-old Fabinho go to Al Ittihad last year to reap income towards the end of his career, and the Reds only lost £2 million after signing from Monaco in 2018.
4. Raheem Sterling (£49m)
Things quickly turned sour when Sterling tried to leave Liverpool and Manchester City were more than happy to sign him for a staggering £50million. The 20-year-old
joined City in 2015 and Sterling became the most expensive English player ever and was certainly a huge profit for Liverpool after they signed him from Queens Park Rangers for £600,000 in 2010.
3. Fernando Torres (£50m)
When Torres decided to leave Liverpool for Chelsea on transfer deadline day in January 2011, he left the Kop heartbroken, but some fans still understood the former Spain striker’s decision. Since joining from Atletico Madrid in 2007, Torres had impressed
at Anfield, scoring 81 goals in 142 games in all competitions, but at Chelsea he has been an unhappy investment.
2. Luis Suarez (£65m)
The Uruguayan’s move to Barcelona came immediately after the 2014 World Cup and it didn’t exactly come as a surprise, with Liverpool using the money to revamp the squad but it has yet to be compared to the level of Suarez’s time there. During his
four years at Anfield, Suarez enjoyed a remarkable run of form, with him being regarded as one of the club’s best strikers, scoring 82 goals in 133 games, but he was never able to win any major trophies.
1. Philippe Coutinho (£142m)
There is no denying that Coutinho’s sale to Barcelona in January 2018 would be the start of Liverpool’s greatness under Klopp, after the money was used to sign Alisson Becker and Virgil van Dijk.
However, Coutinho’s dream at Barcelona did not go as planned, with his form dipping and injury problems plaguing him, making it one of the club’s worst failed ventures.