Liverpool will somehow multiply their investment on Ben Davies despite him never playing for them. Man City dominate this summer transfer XI.
The following players have all been sold for fees by top-flight English clubs this summer, having never played a single Premier League game for the team in question.
GOALKEEPER: Gavin Bazunu (Man City to Southampton, £12m)
Man City must be pleased to have turned an initial £420,000 investment in a Shamrock Rovers teenager into an eight-figure net-spend booster. Bazunu never made as much as a bench at the Etihad but established himself as an Ireland international and busied himself saving Cristiano Ronaldo penalties long before his parent club’s radar managed to pick him up.
CENTRE-HALF: Ko Itakura (Man City to Borussia Monchengladbach, £4.3m)
CENTRE-HALF: Ben Davies (Liverpool to Rangers, £4m)
CENTRE-HALF: Cameron Carter-Vickers (Tottenham to Celtic, £6m)
It was only when Celtic drafted in the American that Carter-Vickers started to come into his own. He played 45 times and only Callum McGregor (4,432) and Carl Starfelt (4,397) featured for more outfield minutes than the defender (4,064) in Ange Postecoglu’s excellent debut season at Parkhead. Carter-Vickers “really wanted to be part of the club’s future” and a £6m, four-year deal benefits all parties involved.
RIGHT WINGER: Pedro Porro (Man City to Sporting Lisbon, £7.2m)
Arsenal and Manchester United have much to learn as selling well separates best from the rest
CENTRAL MIDFIELDER: Romeo Lavia (Man City to Southampton, £14m)
CENTRAL MIDFIELDER: Dylan Levitt (Manchester United to Dundee United, £320,000)
CENTRAL MIDFIELDER: Darko Gyabi (Man City to Leeds, £5m)
LEFT WINGER: Jack Clarke (Tottenham to Sunderland, £10m)
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