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Real Madrid, Liverpool, and Manchester City have spent significant sums of money on multiple players.

While Liverpool's ownership can't compete with the likes of Manchester City, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain in terms of raw spending power, they will clearly spend if they think they have found the right player.

Liverpool broke the transfer records for a defender and a goalkeeper respectively -- and that brought them Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker.



Unless you're Real Madrid and you can convince players to run down their contracts then come sign with you, you can't acquire a player such as Wirtz for an "efficient" amount of money.

So, what might the acquisitions of Wirtz, Frimpong, and Kerkez tell us about the vision for the future version of Liverpool?

This summer, Real Madrid got Alexander-Arnold to run down his Liverpool contract and join the club without a transfer fee.

But then they got impatient.

Mastantuono is more of a project -- he literally has made only 16 league starts for River -- but his passing and dribbling were out of this world for a player at his age.

With Huijsen and Alexander-Arnold now on the roster, and Benfica left back Álvaro Carreras likely to follow, this Real Madrid team already makes a lot more sense than it did last season.

Chelsea: Value, value, value

I write this basically every transfer season, and it remains true after the early-June mini-window: Chelsea Football Club are building a collection of undervalued players who only accidentally resemble a soccer team.

You can't build an entire team out of those players, but that's not going to stop this new ownership group from trying.

Manchester United: Aiming for 10th place

The global chemical company INEOS was supposed to fix this when it acquired a stake in Manchester United in 2023.

It was supposed to realize that this team wasn't remotely close to competing for a Champions League place, let alone a league title.
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