Simon Jordan makes divisive Liverpool PSR claim after £445million summer splurge
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Charlie Grace
Wed 3 September 2025 19:13, UK
Liverpool eventually secured the transfer of Alexander Isak on deadline day, with their spending has skyrocketing to £445 million.
Alexander Isak’s £125m move became the most expensive deadline day deal ever, as well as breaking the British transfer record, the second time Liverpool have broken that record this summer.
Isak, who had been pushing to move to Liverpool all window, was one member of Liverpool’s huge transfer spend, as Arne Slot looks to retain the club’s Premier League crown.
Isak joins, Florian Wirtz – the previous British transfer record breaker – and Hugo Ekitike in Liverpool’s new-look attacking rotation.
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As the Liverpool’s spending rises so does the pressure on Slot, who will now be under enormous expectations, with the club’s transfer policy looking night and day from that of Jurgen Klopp’s.
Simon Jordan spoke on talkSPORT to defend Liverpool’s approach though: “Liverpool bought, €482m worth of players, and they sold €220m worth of players […]
“So we’re talking about something in the region of about €180m across three transfer windows, it’s not huge amounts of money,” Jordan said.
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Jordan was posed with a statement from Jamie Carragher on Liverpool historically not spending as much as their big six rivals and how that has change.
The presenter responded: “That’s also because PSR (Profit and Sustainability Rules) governance has changed, it’s also because Liverpool are at a stage where their turnover is so significant.
“In the season before last their turnover was in the region of about £620m, so the season just gone is probably going to be exceeding £700m,” he continued.
“Liverpool has simply consolidated and conflated two transfer windows into one and paid some slightly higher fees than people anticipate because they’ve bought some of the best players,” Jordan finished.
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Football Insider verdict
The pressure is undoubtedly on Slot to deliver more silverware to Anfield this season, but it is equally on the Dutchman to just retain a harmony between the squad.
Isak joins a front three that has scored six of Liverpool’s eight goals in the club’s first three Premier League games of the season.
PlayerPositionMohamed SalahRWAlexander IsakSTHugo EkitikeST/LWFlorian WirtzAM/LWFederico ChiesaRW/STCody GakpoLWRio NgumohaLWSlot’s attacking options
On paper it appears Isak, who has netted over 20 Premier League goals in the last two seasons, will have to usurp the red-hot Ekitike who has scored in three of his first four Liverpool games.
Slot will be under pressure to fit all of his elite attackers into a balanced lineup, and that’s before considering where Wirtz comes into the equation.