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Barry Hunter, Julian Ward, Michael Edwards, Richard Hughes and David Woodfine pose for a photograph with the Premier League trophy, as Liverpool are crowned the Champions of the Premier League for the 2024/25 Season, following Premier League match between Liverpool FC and Crystal Palace FC at Anfield on May 25, 2025(Image: Nikki Dyer - LFC/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

The red smoke may still be clearing from Liverpool's Premier League title triumph, but the Reds are wasting little time turning their attentions to the future.

And as Arne Slot's squad jet off on their well deserved holidays after capturing the club's 20th English crown, sporting director Richard Hughes is hard at work strengthening that group.

A deal for Jeremie Frimpong is already confirmed and the Reds continued their aggressive approach to the summer transfer market with a bid of £109m for Bayer Leverkusen's Florian Wirtz on Friday.

That's not all, with Milos Kerkez another transfer target and the Reds striking a £10m deal to allow Trent Alexander-Arnold to make his switch to Real Madrid several weeks earlier than planned.

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Meanwhile, Caoimhin Kelleher is courting interest from a number of Premier League clubs and Darwin Nunez is subject to interest from Saudi Arabia.

Hughes' phone, then, may well be ringing off the hook this week, but he will need to keep it fully charged in the coming days and weeks.

In terms of transfers, Liverpool are on course for their biggest summer for years, certainly since over £150m was splashed on the reconstruction of the midfield area in 2023.

The surprise departures of Fabinho and Jordan Henderson that year, as well as the exits of James Milner, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Naby Keita, saw Jurgen Klopp sanction a transfer splurge that proved to be the basis for Liverpool's title challenge.

Indeed, Alexis Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch, Dominik Szoboszlai and the bargain signing of Wataru Endo have given Liverpool the platform to ree-stablish themselves as England's top club.

But that £150m spend could instantly be dwarfed this summer with deals already being lined up.

The Hungarian left-back has made little secret of his desire to make the switch to Anfield with his international team-mate Szoboszlai.

Should all three deals go through then Liverpool will already have smashed the transfer spend of summer 2023 and could even exceed the £160m spent in 2018, when deals for Keita, Fabinho, Xherdan Shaqiri and Alisson Becker were sealed.

Keita, like the £29m Giorgi Mamardashvili, was signed in the summer of 2017, with the Guinea midfielder arriving for RB Leipzig a year later.

Throw in Mamardashvili's transfer fee and Liverpool will have exceeded the summer of 2018, though add on the £75m spent on Van Dijk in January of that year and the Reds still have some way to go before they outdo their efforts of seven years ago.

But there is still plenty of time for that, with centre-back and striker to other areas of the pitch that Hughes and Slot will be considering when they plot out the rest of the summer, with outgoings set to have a big influence on where Liverpool look to do business next.

And it all points to what could be Liverpool's most ambitious transfer window yet.

There is, though, one big difference between 2018 and 2025.

Seven years ago Liverpool entered the summer nursing the wounds suffered against Real Madrid as beaten Champions League finalists.

A fourth-place finish saw them requalify for the competition but it was clear that Klopp's side were looking to make the next step.

Slot's team, however, enter this summer as the Premier League champions and will go into next season among the favourites to lift the biggest trophies both domestically and in Europe.

And while deals for Alisson and Van Dijk were seen as major coups for Klopp's men, Wirtz picking Anfield over Manchester City and Bayern Munich comes as less of a surprise given Liverpool's current status.

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Indeed, Liverpool are spending from a position of strength this summer, and that just might make it the most exciting transfer window yet.


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