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[RedSi35]

Reds reduce wage bill by ‘£30m’
Published on September 1st, 2011
Written by: This Is Anfield
It’s been a busy summer for Liverpool FC and director of football Damien Comolli. While the big name arrivals have caught the headlines, perhaps most impressive has been the work done to reduce what was a hugely bloated squad and get rid of the ‘deadwood’.

Including loans and free transfers, Liverpool have allowed 19 players to leave the club.

Telegraph reporter Rory Smith wrote on Wednesday night that those departures have cut the club’s wage bill by £30m.

High-earning players such as Joe Cole, Milan Jovanovic (both reportedly on £90k per week), Alberto Aquilani and Christian Poulsen have been sold or loaned out.

Meanwhile, a host of young players who were not expected to make the grade at the club have been released.

Even more interestingly, Smith notes that the club have recouped around £25m in transfer fees this summer.

Impressive work Damien, Kenny and FSG. What a difference a year makes.

Who left LFC:

To Reported Fee
Emiliano Insua Sporting Lisbon Undisclosed
Dani Pacheco Atletico Madrid Season loan
Peter Gulacsi Hull City Season loan
Stephen Darby Rochdale Season loan
Alberto Aquilani AC Milan Season loan
Martin Hansen Bradford City Loan
Nabil El Zhar Levante Free
Joe Cole Lille Season loan
Thomas Ince Blackpool Free
Christian Poulsen Evian Free
Phillip Degen Released Free
Milan Jovanovic Anderlecht Free
Raul Meireles Chelsea £15m
Paul Konchesky Leicester City £1.5m
Daniel Ayala Norwich City £800k
Chris Mavinga Rennes £1m
David Ngog Bolton £4m
Gerardo Bruna Blackpool Free
Sotirios Kyrgiakos Wolfsburg Undisclosed
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[metalhead]

Good stuff! That means we can have more funds available to buy some top quality players like Hazard once we get into the CL

[bunglemark2]

Good stuff! That means we can have more funds available to buy some top quality players like Hazard once we get into the CL

On the subject of Hazard, just reading there's no link or clause between the loan of Cole and first option on Hazard.........pity....

[tubby]

Good stuff! That means we can have more funds available to buy some top quality players like Hazard once we get into the CL

On the subject of Hazard, just reading there's no link or clause between the loan of Cole and first option on Hazard.........pity....

I reckon there is something in there. Even if there was though I doubt Lille would come out and say.

Comolli has good contacts in France, im certain we will at least be in the running for him should we get back into the CL.

[Dundalk]

Got this elsewhere


1. Bouzanis - released
2. Hansen or Chamberlain - Chamberlain released 16/6
3. Jones
4. Degen - 31/8 Contract cancelled by mutual consent
5. Darby- 7/7 Joins Rochdale on season-long loan. Should effectively end his LFC career because he's out of contract in 2012.
6. Mendy
7. Irwin - released 16/6
8. Soto - 22/8 Confirmed exit to Wolfsburg, presumably on a free/mutual termination.
9. Agger - Linked to Bayern Munich (Mirror) (long time ago now and looks far more likely to stay, though tentative reports could now effectively replace him on this list w/Skrtel)
10. Ayala - 13/8 Confirmed transfer to Norwich, fee reported as just shy of £1m.
11. Insua - 27/8 Well that one came from pretty much nowhere... Insua joins Sporting permanently. No news of a fee. Presumed mutual termination?
12. Aurelio
13. Konchesky - 13/7. Sold to Leicester for a reported £1.5m. Cheers Sven.
14. Poulsen - 30/8 Poulsen to become the new face of Evian.
15. Aquilani - 25/8 Loaned to AC Milan. They reportedly have to take up option to buy him after 25 games. £5-7m fee suggested.
16. Amoo
17. El Zhar - Just shy of his testimonial, 'youngster' El Zhar finally gets released from contract (18/8) looks set to join Levante.
18. Ince - 3/8 Blackpool website confirms move
19. Cole - 31/8 Confirmed season-long loan to Lille
20. Jovanovic - 2/8 Signed for Anderlecht. Free transfer.
21. Bruna - 18/7 Confirmed sale to Blackpool
22. Pacheco - 24/8 Joins Atletico Madrid on season-long loan. Rumours of a 'first option' for the summer. Contract still runs til 2014.
23. N'Gog - 31/8 Signs for Bolton for a reported £4m. Best of luck David.
24. Eccleston - Suggestions on his twitter that he's been released. Update: Nah, played for reserves 12/7
25. Saric - released 16/6 (signed for Hajduk Split)
26. Mavinga - €1m transfer to Rennes confirmed 19/7 (any hope for a buy-back clause?)
27. Cooper - released 16/6

[stmichael]

it's actually quite frigtening how much of a drain on the club's resources the  likes of cole and degen were. those two were picking up £160k a week between them for precisely sod all in return.

[Thommo's perm]

Music to my eyes

[Greavesie]

excellent work by the lads working behind the scenes, clearly they've done a fantastic job

£25m in fees as well? Some of them must have commanded at least some fees then. Overall a great window

does the £25m include the Meireles fee, if not, it could be that our net spend isn't nearly as high as people have suggested, also

[RedSi35]

Think it includes his sale.

Is their a summary somewhere of what we have done since the new ownsers came in? Would be interesting to see in general terms how we are doing

[zarababe]

I don't think were were in the top five spenders due to balancing books.. Manc City have the biggets problems though... no way they can abide by the fiar play rules, whilst showing such huge operating losses !

[7_Kewell]

Got this elsewhere


1. Bouzanis - released
2. Hansen or Chamberlain - Chamberlain released 16/6
3. Jones
4. Degen - 31/8 Contract cancelled by mutual consent
5. Darby- 7/7 Joins Rochdale on season-long loan. Should effectively end his LFC career because he's out of contract in 2012.
6. Mendy
7. Irwin - released 16/6
8. Soto - 22/8 Confirmed exit to Wolfsburg, presumably on a free/mutual termination.
9. Agger - Linked to Bayern Munich (Mirror) (long time ago now and looks far more likely to stay, though tentative reports could now effectively replace him on this list w/Skrtel)
10. Ayala - 13/8 Confirmed transfer to Norwich, fee reported as just shy of £1m.
11. Insua - 27/8 Well that one came from pretty much nowhere... Insua joins Sporting permanently. No news of a fee. Presumed mutual termination?
12. Aurelio
13. Konchesky - 13/7. Sold to Leicester for a reported £1.5m. Cheers Sven.
14. Poulsen - 30/8 Poulsen to become the new face of Evian.
15. Aquilani - 25/8 Loaned to AC Milan. They reportedly have to take up option to buy him after 25 games. £5-7m fee suggested.
16. Amoo
17. El Zhar - Just shy of his testimonial, 'youngster' El Zhar finally gets released from contract (18/8) looks set to join Levante.
18. Ince - 3/8 Blackpool website confirms move
19. Cole - 31/8 Confirmed season-long loan to Lille
20. Jovanovic - 2/8 Signed for Anderlecht. Free transfer.
21. Bruna - 18/7 Confirmed sale to Blackpool
22. Pacheco - 24/8 Joins Atletico Madrid on season-long loan. Rumours of a 'first option' for the summer. Contract still runs til 2014.
23. N'Gog - 31/8 Signs for Bolton for a reported £4m. Best of luck David.
24. Eccleston - Suggestions on his twitter that he's been released. Update: Nah, played for reserves 12/7
25. Saric - released 16/6 (signed for Hajduk Split)
26. Mavinga - €1m transfer to Rennes confirmed 19/7 (any hope for a buy-back clause?)
27. Cooper - released 16/6

geez...what a load of sh!te players

[shanks]

Got this elsewhere


1. Bouzanis - released
2. Hansen or Chamberlain - Chamberlain released 16/6
3. Jones
4. Degen - 31/8 Contract cancelled by mutual consent
5. Darby- 7/7 Joins Rochdale on season-long loan. Should effectively end his LFC career because he's out of contract in 2012.
6. Mendy
7. Irwin - released 16/6
8. Soto - 22/8 Confirmed exit to Wolfsburg, presumably on a free/mutual termination.
9. Agger - Linked to Bayern Munich (Mirror) (long time ago now and looks far more likely to stay, though tentative reports could now effectively replace him on this list w/Skrtel)
10. Ayala - 13/8 Confirmed transfer to Norwich, fee reported as just shy of £1m.
11. Insua - 27/8 Well that one came from pretty much nowhere... Insua joins Sporting permanently. No news of a fee. Presumed mutual termination?
12. Aurelio
13. Konchesky - 13/7. Sold to Leicester for a reported £1.5m. Cheers Sven.
14. Poulsen - 30/8 Poulsen to become the new face of Evian.
15. Aquilani - 25/8 Loaned to AC Milan. They reportedly have to take up option to buy him after 25 games. £5-7m fee suggested.
16. Amoo
17. El Zhar - Just shy of his testimonial, 'youngster' El Zhar finally gets released from contract (18/8) looks set to join Levante.
18. Ince - 3/8 Blackpool website confirms move
19. Cole - 31/8 Confirmed season-long loan to Lille
20. Jovanovic - 2/8 Signed for Anderlecht. Free transfer.
21. Bruna - 18/7 Confirmed sale to Blackpool
22. Pacheco - 24/8 Joins Atletico Madrid on season-long loan. Rumours of a 'first option' for the summer. Contract still runs til 2014.
23. N'Gog - 31/8 Signs for Bolton for a reported £4m. Best of luck David.
24. Eccleston - Suggestions on his twitter that he's been released. Update: Nah, played for reserves 12/7
25. Saric - released 16/6 (signed for Hajduk Split)
26. Mavinga - €1m transfer to Rennes confirmed 19/7 (any hope for a buy-back clause?)
27. Cooper - released 16/6

geez...what a load of sh!te players

i wouldnt of said Agger was number 9

[Reg]

30 million gross, 17 million nett. Still represents a 17% reduction from a 100 million wage bill last year.

[Reg]

Interesting comment in today's Telegraph: '....spent £114 million on players with £75 million regained in transfer fees.' Good business.


Few Liverpool fans would have sold Meireles, particularly not to a bitter foe and especially not for £12 million, roughly what Hodgson paid for the Portugal international last summer. That is the measure of the new Liverpool, though. Those who are not required will be cast aside. Dalglish wants only those soldiers he deems necessary; a bloated squadron is a cumbersome one.

"For me, the players they have signed have largely been British, which takes me back to when I started watching Liverpool," said Craig Bellamy, the final piece of incoming business carried out by Dalglish. "It looks so familiar to me, so to be part of it is such a huge honour."

Dalglish has built the squad he wanted: young, energetic, mostly home-grown, and with a passion for the club – but it fits FSG's vision, too. The squad is streamlined – 22 senior players, supported by youth – with this summer's six signings, Bellamy apart, earning a combined, and relatively modest, £13 million-a-season in wages.

That is a saving of £17 million-a-season. FSG are no asset-strippers, though. They have spent £114 million on players in eight months, plus wages, with £75 million regained in transfer fees. This is not a rerun of Liverpool's recent past. This is the start of the future.

[Greavesie]

I'm just gonna stick this in here

evertontime

we still got a mention, bless em