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Liverpool will have raked in more than £200 million ($270.9 million) from player sales this summer once Ben Doak joins Bournemouth.
The Scottish international is finalizing a £25 million ($33.9 million) move to the south coast after completing his medical over the weekend. Doak, 19, was signed from Celtic in 2022 for a mere £600,000 ($812,000) and spent the previous season on loan at Middlesbrough. He's only made 10 first-team appearances for the Reds.
This summer, Liverpool has already sold Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez, Caoimhin Kelleher, and Jarell Quansah. The Reds also pocketed £8 million ($10.8 million) from Real Madrid for Trent Alexander-Arnold's early departure, a month before his contract ended.
This is helping to balance their massive summer expenditure of around $400 million.
That figure will rise even further before the transfer window shuts, with Marc Guehi from Crystal Palace on the club's radar and ongoing efforts to sign Newcastle striker Alexander Isak.
However, more players are set to leave Anfield.
Kostas Tsimikas, now third-choice left-back following the arrival of Milos Kerkez, is being eyed by Nottingham Forest.
Midfielder Harvey Elliott is on RB Leipzig's wishlist, who is expected to make a formal bid once Chelsea target Xavi Simons' future is resolved.
Speaking in May, Arne Slot hinted at spending big this summer. He said: "I think we can find one or two extra weapons this team doesn’t have.
"Maybe, maybe, by using the transfer market. That is what we are trying to achieve. That will make us only stronger.
"That is what we need because we saw (Manchester) City spending £200 million in the (January) transfer window. All of them will. Apart from the transfer window, we can also improve certain aspects ourselves."
Slot was recently asked whether Guehi, who has one year left on his contract with Palace, will join before the transfer deadline in two weeks.
He replied: "No, (I cannot go into more detail) because he is not our player and unfortunately he was the captain of the team where we lost against (in the Community Shield) last Sunday.
"No, if you want to have any talks about him, you should go to Palace, to (Oliver) Glasner and ask him his opinion about him."
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