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Liverpool are set to sell Luis Diaz to Bayern Munich after the German champions met their asking price on Sunday.

Diaz was a key player for the Reds as they lifted the Premier League last season, but was seemingly keen on a new challenge this summer.

Bayern have agreed to pay around £65.5m to sign Diaz, which represents a fantastic profit on the £43m Liverpool shelled out for the Colombian in 2022.

The significant fee makes Diaz one of the most expensive departures in Liverpool history.

Here are the top five biggest Liverpool player sales of all time.

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Liverpool felt to be going nowhere in a hurry in the summer of 2015.

With Steven Gerrard having just left and Brendan Rodgers mired in trouble, there was a bad feeling around Anfield.

This was exacerbated by the sale of Raheem Sterling, as the then 20-year-old pushed for a move to Manchester City.

Sterling infuriated Liverpool supporters by conducting interviews and publicly making it clear he wanted to join their Premier League title rivals.

The £49m price was ultimately very good business for a player who joined the Liverpool academy at 15, but with Sterling going on to win four titles with City, he arguably repaid the fee and more.

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If Sterling’s move to City was seen as bad form, then Fernando Torres joining Chelsea four-and-a-half years earlier was a downright betrayal.

Another case of Liverpool being seen as lesser than one of their English rivals, Torres’ move to Stamford Bridge still stings many supporters to this day.

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The £50m fee – a British transfer record at the time – did soften the blow somewhat, as did the fact that despite winning numerous trophies, Torres never recaptured his Liverpool form for Chelsea.

Still, fans would have much rather kept the money and seen the Spaniard go on to spend many more years at Anfield.

So good is Liverpool’s business on the Diaz file, that he slots in at number three in the all-time list.

Given the money Liverpool are spending this summer transfer window, making sure they execute maximum value in terms of sales is incredibly important.

Bayern Munich fans have not been happy with the fee for Diaz, but the truth is that he is a top quality winger at the peak of his powers.

That was never going to come cheap.

Unlike either Sterling or Torres, Diaz also leaves Liverpool with the best wishes of supporters.

Hopefully he can justify his price at Bayern.

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After a quite ridiculous final season with Liverpool, Luis Suarez was always going to cost an absolute bomb in 2014.

The Uruguayan was arguably the best player in world football at the time, and finally completed a dream move to Barcelona for £75m.

This was a rare case in the world of transfers where everybody wins.

Liverpool got a top fee – which they largely squandered – and Barcelona acquired a super player who went on to help them win the Champions League in his maiden season.

198 goals in 283 games across six campaigns is a record which shows Suarez was very much worth the money.

The success of Suarez’s move was perhaps still lingering in Barcelona minds when they agreed to pay a staggering £142m to Liverpool for Philippe Coutinho in January 2018.

Coutinho was in brilliant form at the time and having failed to secure him over the summer, Barca always knew they’d have to pay big on the Brazilian.

Unfortunately, transfer involving such eye-watering fees are always liable to go terribly wrong, and that is what happened with Coutinho.

The misery of his four years in Barcelona does not need rehashing here, but it is likely that Coutinho will forever remain Liverpool’s most expensive sale, and the best piece of business the club will ever do.

Elsewhere, Fabinho, Jarell Quansah, Xabi Alonso, Sadio Mane and Christian Benteke feature in the top ten, with Liverpool largely coming out of those sales looking very good.
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