{"id":338898,"date":"2025-08-12T16:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338898\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:37:15","slug":"liverpool-make-offer-for-guehi-would-be-most-expensive-defensive-signing-since-van-dijk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338898\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool make offer for Gu\u00e9hi – would be most expensive defensive signing since Van Dijk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anfield spending spree\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Liverpool<\/p>\n

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Liverpool<\/a> look set to continue their remarkable summer spending with the signing of Crystal Palace<\/a> central defender Marc Gu\u00e9hi<\/a>. According to the Times, the Anfield club are prepared to make an offer that could reach a total of \u00a335 million (\u20ac40.5m) for the 25-year-old talent. If completed, it would take Liverpool\u2019s spending on new players to \u20ac334.2m and make Gu\u00e9hi the club\u2019s most expensive central defender since they signed Virgil Van Dijk<\/a> from Southampton for \u20ac84.6m in January 2018.<\/p>\n

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Gu\u00e9hi was the subject of serious attention last summer, with Newcastle<\/a> reportedly having an offer rejected for the player last summer, while Tottenham<\/a> also made an attempt to sign the England international in the January transfer window. However, with Gu\u00e9hi\u2019s contract set to expire next summer, Palace are under pressure to cash in on the defender ahead of this season and it now seems as though Liverpool have won the race to sign the defensive talent.<\/p>\n

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After making a \u20ac23.3m move from Chelsea to Selhurst Park in the summer of 2021, Gu\u00e9hi thrived at the South London club and over the course of the last four years his market value has steadily increased. When he departed Stamford Bridge, the English defender\u2019s market value stood at just \u20ac10m but has steadily climbed since then to an impressive \u20ac45m. Not only does that make him the second most valuable player at Palace and the 18th most valuable English player in the game, but it also constitutes a \u20ac35m increase in market value in the last four years – only seven central defenders in the Premier League<\/a> can lay claim to a bigger jump in market value in that period of time.<\/p>\n

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As previously noted, should Liverpool complete the signing of Gu\u00e9hi for the quoted fee, it will take their spending this summer to a remarkable \u20ac334.2m. Not only is that the largest sum of money that the Anfield club have ever spent in a single transfer window, but it would also be the fourth highest any club has ever spent in the history of the game. Only Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> in the summer of 2023 (\u20ac350m spent), Al-Hilal<\/a> in the summer of 2023 (\u20ac353m spent) and Chelsea\u2019s<\/a> summer spending spree in 2023 (\u20ac464m) saw more money spent on new players than the Anfield club in the last few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anfield spending spree\u00a0 \u00a9IMAGO Liverpool look set to continue their remarkable summer spending with the signing of Crystal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[120907,748,6274,1925,393,4884,179,763,2697,3047,6544,101,201,16,15,1465],"class_list":{"0":"post-338898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-al-hilal-sc","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-chelsea-fc","11":"tag-crystal-palace","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-liverpool-fc","16":"tag-marc-guehi","17":"tag-newcastle-united","18":"tag-paris-saint-germain","19":"tag-premier-league","20":"tag-tottenham-hotspur","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-virgil-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115016777430009788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}