Liverpool are getting their ducks in a row for what is set to be a busy summer transfer window at Anfield.

The Reds tend to be on the quieter side of things when the market opens up during the off-season, but they look likely to buck that trend this year.

Some may have forgotten that before things even start in earnest, Liverpool have already made a signing.

After a deathly quiet summer in 2024, Giorgi Mamardashvili became the Reds’ first addition just days before the deadline passed, joining for £29m.

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Mamardashvili was then loaned back to Valencia, where he has endured a mixed season as the Spanish side battle relegation.

As he closes in on a long-awaited arrival at Anfield, it remains to be seen quite what the 24-year-old’s role will be next term.

And as Mamardashvili gets ever closer to finally becoming a Liverpool player, some previously unreported details of his transfer have made for interesting reading.

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Rewind to Mamardashvili’s signing for Liverpool and a lot of supporters were confused.

With Alisson Becker still arguably the world’s best goalkeeper, it seemed a strange one to bring in another expensive option, even more so to then loan him out.

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According to The Daily Mail, though, Mamardashvili was never actually on loan at all.

They claim that the Georgian had never ‘officially’ been a loan player at Valencia and was instead subject to a more informal – but still binding – agreement between the Reds and his former club.

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As a result, Mamardashvili’s fee will reportedly be added to the accounts pertaining to this year’s summer window for Liverpool.

There are said to be no profit and sustainability worries for the Reds, but the nearly £30m they reportedly paid for Mamardashvili will seemingly impact this summer’s transfer budget.

Although Mamardashvili may not have been officially on loan from Liverpool this season, he was to all intents and purposes a Reds player.

Nevertheless, this new information makes it even less clear as to why Liverpool felt the need to get Mamardashvili in at all.

Caoimhin Kelleher is set to leave and so the Reds will need a new back-up goalkeeper.

But did they really need to spend £29m on one?

Having forked out the money, surely it would have made sense to add the fee to the books immediately, given that transfer spending was virtually at a standstill last summer.

This time, Liverpool are expecting to be busy.