Liverpool set for HEAVYWEIGHT summer

Liverpool are the Premier League champions for the 2024/25 season, but that fact should not change the reality that Arne Slot's side is in need of reinforcements ahead of the next campaign.

The Reds' consistency and sheer willpower to get across the line in each game has meant they sit 15 points clear of Arsenal in the Premier League with just four games to go. The title is wrapped up before May.

READ MORE: Liverpool still deciding on Trent Alexander-Arnold CASH-IN

However, it is essential that the fortunate circumstances the club finds itself in don't act as a facilitator for FSG continue to not invest in the prized asset of their conglomerate.

READ MORE: Liverpool have already signed next Mo Salah for NOTHING

The winter of 2023 saw no transfers, the summer of 2024 saw just Federico Chiesa join the club for £12.5m and the winter of 2024 saw no transfers either.

Following such a successful season, the transfer budget should be filled to the brim with prize money, although the details of such a monumental summer window have been brief and often vague.

'Heavyweight reinforcements' are to be expected

All the transfer football journalists have had their say on Liverpool's highly anticipated summer and we've each heard a different response, based on the same sort of information, worded slightly differently.

Now we have Phil McNulty of BBC Sport's perspective to unpack. In his latest report, he wrote: "Liverpool will now go into overdrive this summer, with their recruitment team, under sporting director Richard Hughes, well on the preparations to add heavyweight reinforcements."

The exact nature of these expected transfers - whether it be 'heavyweight' in terms of the players' name or brand, or be it the transfer fee the Reds will have to pay for them, or even the sheer number of players coming into the club - is still to be debated.

However, one thing to taken from this is probably that the changes will be significant in their standing, with the incomings likely to either go straight into the starting XI, or to be pushing for a place from the off.

Furthermore, McNulty goes on to detail how the club might attempt to learn from the mistakes of the past.

He adds: "Liverpool's past mantra is 'add from a position of strength' - and you do not get much stronger than the status of Premier League champions."

Of course, this should signify that FSG will sanction the transfers that Slot needs, rather than sit back on their laurels - although the club were lackadaisical in the summer after the 2019 title win.

The Reds had just finished the league campaign with 99 points, although the financial outlay the club sanctioned from their position of strength was just €10.4m, which was spent on Takumi Minamino and Sepp van den Berg, alongside securing Adrian and Andy Lonergan on free transfers.

Liverpool fans will be hoping that current reports aren't mere propaganda ahead of another dull summer. A lot of positions need a bit of TLC this summer and Slot deserves financial backing.

And if the information we've received so far is accurate, which you would expect it to be given the sheer number of sources reporting it, then all will be fine, but until the transfer window opens, we will just have to sit back and let it all unfold.

READ MORE: Star now ready for Liverpool offer as release clause TRIGGERS