How Liverpool somehow plan to sign £85m Nunez and sell £42m Mane for ‘very little money, net’

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Some might consider £85m and £42m to be considerably different transfer fees, but through a Liverpool prism that is ‘very little money, net’.

Part exchange

The next job is for chief Merseyside cheerleader David Maddock to paint it as a transfer masterclass in the Daily Mirror. He glosses over comparisons between this deal and Manchester City signing Erling Haaland by stating the Norwegian will ‘disrupt’ the ‘system’ under Pep Guardiola. Nunez, on the other hand, is a more fluid fit.

The Premier League champions have clearly f**ked up here by signing the best young centre-forward in the world. So disruptive to put a clinical goalscorer into a team which creates an arseload of chances every game.

But Maddock is not done. Next is the fee. And how does one make a probable club-record transfer actually sound cheap? Well…

‘Klopp is hoping to essentially exchange Senegal forward Mane for Nunez for very little money, net.’

Klopp can hope all he wants but something does not even vaguely add up there. And Maddock does not mention Takumi Minamino or any other players who might be sold to raise funds. His wording makes it clear: Liverpool want to swap Nunez for Mane at similar costs.

As Sam Wallace of the Daily Telegraph writes:

‘Liverpool expect Bayern Munich to meet their valuation of more than £40million for Sadio Mane which will