{"id":217941,"date":"2025-09-11T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217941\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:35:10","slug":"liverpool-bargain-transfer-only-eclipsed-by-chelsea-genius-deal-in-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217941\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool bargain transfer only eclipsed by Chelsea genius deal in Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had the top 10 summer overpays<\/strong><\/a> so it\u2019s only fair that we salute the bargains. Not so many Premier League signings on this one.<\/p>\n

The market values and the fees are taken from transfermarkt; the former are usually on the low side anyway and the fees are the initial ones before add-ons. So it\u2019s not gospel but it\u2019s a guide to which clubs paid rather less than they should have done\u2026<\/p>\n

The small print is that we are not including loans but we will include free transfers.<\/p>\n

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10) Jeremie Frimpong \u2013 Liverpool underpaid by \u00a38.66m<\/p>\n

Liverpool triggered his release clause, making this by far the simplest transfer they pulled off this summer.<\/p>\n

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9) Antony \u2013 Real Betis underpaid by \u00a311.26m<\/p>\n

Manchester United were desperate to get him out of the door so were more than happy to take \u00a319m for their massive flop. We would not be remotely surprised if Real Betis double their money within 18 months.<\/p>\n

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8) Alex Baena \u2013 Atletico Madrid underpaid by \u00a311.26m<\/p>\n

The initial fee for Spanish international winger Baena was less than Nottingham Forest paid for Omari Hutchinson. Let that sink in.<\/p>\n

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7) Jonathan Burkardt \u2013 Eintracht Frankfurt underpaid by \u00a312.13m<\/p>\n

Eighteen Bundesliga goals cost Frankfurt around \u00a318m; 12 Bundesliga goals cost Newcastle an initial \u00a373m. Go figure. Or don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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6) Mohamed Amoura \u2013 Wolfsburg underpaid by \u00a314.94m<\/p>\n

The fee was agreed before the Algerian claimed 10 goals and 12 assists on loan. They could comfortably double their money and more now.<\/p>\n

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5) Florian Wirtz \u2013 Liverpool underpaid by \u00a321.28m<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not been too much in his early performances<\/strong><\/a> that suggest he is worth more than the initial \u00a3100m Liverpool paid for the German, but TM have him pegged as the joint-seventh most valuable footballer in the world. It\u2019s only Premier League and Newcastle taxes that meant Alexander Isak cost more. And we should remember that even Kevin de Bruyne flopped at Chelsea first<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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4) Estevao \u2013 Chelsea underpaid by \u00a322.52m<\/p>\n

A transfer agreed a year ago already looks like a ludicrous bargain: A starting winger for the Brazil national team for an initial \u00a329m? Chelsea really are very good at this transfer business<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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3) Leroy Sane \u2013 Galatasaray underpaid by \u00a327.72m<\/p>\n

Presumably there were clubs across Europe\u2019s top five leagues that wanted Sane, but he has opted for guaranteed starts, guaranteed money and a guaranteed title race.<\/p>\n

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2) Jonathan David \u2013 Juventus underpaid by \u00a345m<\/p>\n

For a while there it looked like the Canadian international might rock up at a Premier League club, but why would you get your guaranteed goals on a free transfer when you can throw zillions of pounds at the problem?<\/p>\n

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1) Trent Alexander-Arnold \u2013 Real Madrid underpaid by \u00a356.31m<\/p>\n

And the truth of course is that a Trent Alexander-Arnold with a long Liverpool contract would have cost north of \u00a3100m rather than the \u00a38.5m Real Madrid ostensibly paid for him to play at the Club World Cup. And that\u2019s why he had no choice but to run down his deal\u2026Real overpaid for their new left-back<\/strong><\/a> and they still didn\u2019t go past \u00a343m for a full-back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We had the top 10 summer overpays so it\u2019s only fair that we salute the bargains. Not so…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":217942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[13288,18754,2366,204,9655,215,106181,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-217941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-estevao","9":"tag-f365-features","10":"tag-florian-wirtz","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-home-page","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-popular","15":"tag-soccer","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115185223737394061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}