All summer Andoni Iraola has said he will be "comfortable" come the start of September, when the transfer window is over and he has certainty over his squad. Senior figures said from the outset this was never going to be a transfer window like last summer, when the club spent a then record £415m under Arne Slot and broke the British transfer record twice by signing Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak. Last summer, Liverpool also made £188m from selling players such as Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez and Jarell Quansah - and they ended the window with a net spend of £227m.