But there's still about 40 million of the coutinho money left after all that so doesn't count.
The way they go on you’d think Coutinho was from their academy or something.
Paying a massive fee for a player, selling them on, then reinvesting the money in another good player and only counting the net spend of the second deal is a trick they always use to make out they’ve not had any money.
They spent money they didn’t have under Hicks and Gillette to buy Torres Alonso Mascherano Agger etc. almost went into administration. Then were able to wipe all their debts and sell these players for huge fees. What a neat trick.
So Torres paid for Suarez, who then paid for Salah etc. it’s like City saying now they don’t spend any money because they have such a low net spend, it’s because they’ve already hoarded a load of top class assets they’re able to sell to keep a low net spend but there’s no getting away from the fact that Liverpool had loads of cash injected into the club for the entirety of their existence pretty much since Shankly brought them back into the top flight.
No other team has spent so much money for so long to stay at the top as them. The ultimate cheque book team and financial dopers.