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Liverpool has been named Europe’s biggest selling club "after receiving more money through transfer fees than any other club over the past six years, a study has discovered," according to Jack de Menezes of the London INDEPENDENT. The club is not only the biggest seller in the Premier League "but across the entire continent, with the sales of Luis Suarez and Raheem Sterling" helping to take its transfer income to an "incredible" €442M ($493M), €10M ($11.15M) more than any other club. Both Tottenham and Chelsea "also feature in the top 10," although they get "nowhere near" Liverpool’s sum with Spurs €73M ($81.4M) behind the Anfield club and Chelsea a further €11M ($12.3M) behind. The study, carried out by leading Swiss research group CIES Football Observatory, analyzed player transfer in this decade and published its findings "to reveal Europe’s biggest selling club." The figures "do not take into account player signings though," with Liverpool spending a lot of its income on new arrivals. ManU (€182M) ($203M) and Arsenal (€187M) ($209M) do not "fare too badly, as they rank 29th and 28th respectively," although the Gunners "have worked to buck the trend of being a selling club in recent years" now it has paid off the bill from building the Emirates Stadium (
INDEPENDENT, 9/21). In Liverpool, James Pearce reported Liverpool Manager Jürgen Klopp insists Liverpool "are not a selling club" as he vowed to ensure there is "less upheaval at Anfield over the coming years." He "believes future transfer windows will prove to be less eventful as he dismissed concerns about losing any more star names to rival clubs." He said, "Our transfer window was quite busy and I don’t want it to be that busy in future. ... The successful teams don’t have to change a lot. There is no need for Liverpool to be a selling club. Nobody calls and says, 'Come on, sell, we need money'" (
LIVERPOOL ECHO, 9/22).
