{"id":35791,"date":"2025-07-31T20:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35791\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T20:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:54:10","slug":"arne-slot-insists-liverpool-will-never-hesitate-to-spend-on-the-right-players-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35791\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Slot insists Liverpool will “never hesitate” to spend on the right players – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot<\/a> insisted the club would never hesitate to sign a player if the chance presented itself.<\/p>\n

Despite having spent close to \u00a3300 million already this summer, the Reds continue to be linked with Newcastle<\/a> striker Alexander Isak in what would be a British transfer record deal.<\/p>\n

While the club have held an interest in the Sweden international for some time, there has been no approach but Isak\u2019s decision to absent himself from Newcastle<\/a>\u2018s pre-season trip to South Korea has only increased speculation about a potential switch to Anfield.<\/p>\n

There has been a considerable turnover this summer with senior players Trent Alexander-Arnold<\/a> and Luis Diaz<\/a> departing, in addition to second-choice goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher<\/a>, Jarell Quansah<\/a> and Nat Phillips<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The response has been to spend a club-record fee on Florian Wirtz<\/a>, while also bringing in his Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> team-mate Jeremie Frimpong<\/a>, Eintracht Frankfurt\u2019s Hugo Ekitike<\/a>, Bournemouth<\/a> defender Milos Kerkez<\/a> and goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Slot said the spending may not stop there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always say, another thing about Liverpool is that if we see a chance in the market, we never hesitate to bring someone in,\u201d he told reporters before departing Japan at the end of their trip to the Far East.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end it\u2019s about quality and we have already made some very good signings. In terms of quality, we are already in the right place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Top of that quality list is Wirtz, one of Europe\u2019s hottest prospects at just 22.<\/p>\n

\"HONG<\/p>\n

Liverpool beat Manchester City<\/a>, Bayern Munich<\/a> and Real Madrid<\/a> to his signature and were prepared to agree to a record \u00a3116 million deal because of what he offers currently and the potential for growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t just think, \u2018let\u2019s bring a midfielder in\u2019. This is a long-term project for the club,\u201d Slot added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the way this club has worked over several years: targeting a specific player who we think can strengthen the squad and can bring us quality. Then we try to bring him in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this club has always worked like this. We do spend, but if we spend, then we always need to recoup some money.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s what we already started last summer when we only brought in Federico Chiesa<\/a>, but we sold three or four players, which meant a big profit.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo if you balance things out, we\u2019ve spent, for sure, but we\u2019ve also recouped money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"YOKOHAMA,<\/p>\n

For all the money spent so far, the player who made the biggest impression in matches in Hong Kong and Tokyo was Rio Ngumoha<\/a>, a 16-year-old who only joined the club last summer from Chelsea<\/a> but has already made a rapid rise through the youth ranks.<\/p>\n

He scored a fine solo goal in the 3-1 win over Yokohama F Marinos but also impressed against AC Milan<\/a> before that and is already being talked about a viable first-team option to play on the left following the departure of Diaz.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not trying to rush because I\u2019m still only young,\u201d he told the club\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut at the same time, I just want to show the manager what I can do and not get too complacent. I just want to do bigger and better things for me and the club.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool head coach Arne Slot insisted the club would never hesitate to sign a player if the chance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,7886,85],"class_list":["post-35791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}