Parma defender Giovanni Leoni has signed for Liverpool, taking their summer transfer spend over £300m.

Liverpool will pay a fee of £26m plus add-ons for the 18-year-old, who has signed a six-year contract and becomes the club's sixth major signing, with their business now totalling £321.5m in paid transfer fees so far.

That is currently the third-biggest transfer outlay from a Premier League club in a single window.

If Liverpool complete a deal to sign Newcastle striker Alexander Isak, which could cost well above £100m, then the Reds could become the biggest summer transfer spenders of all time.

Liverpool close in on £26m Giovanni Leoni transfer to take summer transfer spending past £300m	Liverpool complete £26m Giovanni Leoni transfer as summer spending rockets past £300m	Arne Slot makes Liverpool title claim as new deal sees transfer spend pass £300m

The Reds saw off competition from elite Italian clubs and Premier League sides for Leoni, who was adamant his choice was a move to Arne Slot's Premier League champions.

Leoni will join the first-team set-up for this season, with any suggestion of a loan move completely ruled out.

Sky Sports News' Kaveh Solhekol and Dharmesh Sheth discuss whether Liverpool will complete the signing of Crystal Palace's Marc Guehi this summer.

Sky Sports News previously reported there was a gap in valuation between the two Premier League sides.

Palace will not let their captain go on the cheap and Liverpool know they can wait until next summer to sign him on a free transfer.

If the situation does not change, it looks likely as things stand that Guehi will stay at Crystal Palace and leave on a free transfer next summer.

In

Milos Kerkez - Bournemouth, £40m

Florian Wirtz - Bayer Leverkusen, £116m

Jeremie Frimpong - Bayer Leverkusen, £29.5m

Giorgi Mamardashvili - Valencia, £29m

Hugo Ekitike - Eintracht Frankfurt, £79m

Armin Pecsi - Puskas Akademia, £1.5m

Freddie Woodman - Preston, free

Giovanni Leoni - Parma, £26m

Out

Darwin Nunez - Al Hilal, £56.6m

Trent Alexander-Arnold - Real Madrid, £10m

Caoimhin Kelleher - Brentford, £18m

Jarell Quansah - Bayer Leverkusen, £35m

Luis Diaz - Bayern Munich, £65m

Tyler Morton - Lyon, £15m

Nat Phillips - West Brom, £3m

Vitezslav Jaros - Ajax, loan

Owen Beck - Derby, loan

Luca Stephenson - Dundee United, loan

Sky Sports to show 215 live Premier League games this season

215 live premier league matches up from 128 this season on Sky Sports

From this season, Sky Sports' Premier League coverage will increase from 128 matches to at least 215 games exclusively live.

And 80 per cent of all televised Premier League games this season will be on Sky Sports.


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