Updated Sept 3, 2013
PLAYERS SIGNED:Sakho CB £16M initial fee with add-ons rising up to £19.5M (Le Parisien)
Mignolet GK £9M initial fee with add-ons rising up to "over £11M" (Guardian)
Aspas RW/CF £7.7M (Echo)
Ilori CB/RB £7M (Echo)
Luis Alberto AM/LW £6.8M with unspecified add-ons (BBC)
Toure CB - free
Cissokho LB £1M LOAN fee (we can activate the buy-out clause for £4M next season)
Moses RW/LW £1M LOAN fee (1 season, no buy-out clause)
YOUNGSTERS SIGNED:
Chirivella CM
Canos RW
Paez CB
Players linked with us in this window (players we reportedly bid for are highlighted):
Patricio GK - we preferred Mignolet
Begovic GK - was too expensive
Williams CB - we lost interest
De Vrij CB - extended contact with Feyenoord
Pearce CB - extended contract with Reading
Bertrand LB - staying at Chelsea
Montoya RB - staying at Barca
Abdennour CB/LB - ?
Jorginho CM/DM - not sure if there was any real interest at all. Strange one.
Morata CF - was promised a chance to make it at Real
Shakiri RW/AM - Pep likes him
Rami CB - ?
Rakitic AM - ?
Diego Costa CF/DLF - we bid £22M, but he chose to stay with Atletico
Siqueira - Granada increased the price in the last minute. Bad idea - he ended up in Benfica on loan.
Contento - we wanted him on loan, but got Cissokho in the end
Papadopulos - we bought Sakho instead of him
Inigo Martinez - ?
Leandro Damiao CF
Yarmolenko RW - rumors kept flying until the last day of the window, but it was too difficult
Turan LW/AM
Konoplyanka LW
Muriel CF
Thauvin AM
Inan CM - we were scouting the 28 year old "Turkish Xavi"
Given GK - tried to take him on loan as a back-up or 3rd goalkeeper, fell through because we didn't to pay full salary
Players linked with LFC who ended up signing for other clubs (major targets highlighted):
Atsu LW - we didn't agree on the price, then Chelsea bought him and loaned him to Vitesse
Melgarejo LW/LB - we chose Cissokho, later he signed for Kuban (Russia)
Eriksen AM - Spurs
Alderweireld CB - Atletico Madrid
Ljajic LW/AM - Roma
Willian LW/AM - Spurs, then Chelsea
Mkhitaryan AM - Dortmund
Callejon CF/RW - Napoli
Wanyama DM/CB - Southampton
Chadli LW - Spurs
Soldado CF - Spurs
Bernard LW - Shakhtar
Digne LB - PSG
Deulofeu RW/LW - Everton (loan)
Some of the youngsters we've been scouting:
Hughes CM - Derby
Biteco AM - Gremio, on loan from Hoffenheim
Zivkovic CF - Groningen
Zouma CB - St. Etienne
Danilo CM/DM - Vasco da Gama
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PLAYERS SOLD:
Carroll - £15.5M + £2M in add-ons
Downing - £6M
Shelvey - £5M + 1M in add-ons (minus unspecified sell-on fee to Charlton)
Spearing - £1.7M
Wilson - free
Gulacsi - free
Pacheco - free
PLAYERS LOANED OUT:
Reina - to Napoli for 1 year, reportedly with an £8.6M buy-out option (Napoli will pay him £3.4M in wages according to Eurosport, so that means we'll probably pay the remainder of his salary adding up to around 750K for that year)
Suso, to Almeria for 1 year (loan fee unknown)
Robinson, to Blackpool for 1 year (loan fee unknown)
Assaidi, to Stoke for 1 year (loan fee unknown)
Borini, to Sunderland for 1 year (loan fee thought to be around £1M)
Wisdom, to Derby until the end of the season
PLAYERS RETIRED:
Carragher
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SUMMER TRANSFER SPENDING:
Transfer spending so far:
Spent: £46.5M (not counting loan fees, add-ons and youth players)
Earned: £28.2M (not counting loan fees and add-ons)
Total summer spending: £18.3M
WAGES (according to Oncy):
+22,000,000 Per annum wages removed (Carroll, Suso, Spearing, Wilson, Carragher, Downing, Reina, Shelvey, Gulacsi)
-12,660,000 Per anum wages added (Iago, Mignolet, Sakho, Ilori, Kolo, Cissokho and Alberto)
= +9,340,000 PER ANNUM saved.
