Liverpool sign Lyon gem and launch triple-raid on Newcastle as monster summer transfer window predicted

Liverpool have been the main characters of the 2025 summer transfer window with Florian Wirtz and Trent Alexander-Arnold the biggest Premier League arrival and departure respectively, and since they don’t look close to stopping, we decided to give them a little AI helping hand.

Does artificial intelligence have hands? Well Harrison Ford did in Blade Runner and while Rick Deckard wasn’t available for this job, the next best thing was with a similarly dystopian overlord in the form of Grok, which gave Arne Slot a budget of around £325m on top of what he’s already spent.

As a reminder, Wirtz is Liverpool’s most expensive signing ever at £100m and could become a British record fee if he completes all potential add-ons while Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong have reinvigorated the Reds’ full-back options for a combined £70m.

Meanwhile the club’s goalkeeping room has had an overhaul as Giorgi Mamardashvili officially moves to Anfield for £25m to compete with Alisson, 20-year-old arrival Armin Pecsi and ex-Preston goalkeeper Freddie Woodman, arguably the biggest signing of the window.

So does Grok push Liverpool’s spend up to half a billion pounds, and who will leave Merseyside to help fund this outlay?

AI predicts new-look front three for Liverpool

The nature of Liverpool’s 2025 summer transfer looked clear in February when the Reds announced record losses of £57m in their 2023/24 accounts and chief financial officer Jenny Beacham said:

“Operating a financially sustainable club continues to be our priority and, with the continued increase in costs, it’s essential to grow income streams year on year to maintain financial stability.”

The message seemed clear - more of the caution that has proved effective if not blockbuster in the last few years - but the reality couldn’t be further than that, and Grok believes Liverpool aren’t slowing down. It predicts Liverpool will capture Newcastle United duo Alexander Isak and Anthony Gordon for a staggering £150m and £80m respectively, to team up with Mohammed Salah in what would surely be the best front three in the world.

And Grok clearly has it out for the Magpies as it has Liverpool raid their list of transfer targets too, with the man at the top of Eddie Howe’s list also predicted to move to Anfield for £50m. It believes Marc Guehi will become Virgil van Dijk’s heir apparent as Slot could form three-quarters of his future backline in a single transfer window - and he’s not done there.

Finally, Grok backs Liverpool to take advantage of Lyon’s perilous financial situation and swoop for Malick Fofana. It cites uncertainties over the futures of current attacking backup options Harvey Elliott and Federico Chiesa while the 20-year-old also apparently aligns with Liverpool’s want and need to get younger while retaining effective frontline players.

AI predicts £100m attacking duo will leave Anfield

As Beacham noted, spending must be offset by increased income and one way to provide for that is £150m in player sales. Liverpool haven’t been brilliant salesmen in recent years - their four sales above £50m all came in the 2010s in the form of Fernando Torres, Luis Suarez, Raheem Sterling and Philippe Coutinho and only four of their twelve most expensive outgoing players have been in the current decade.

However, that is already changing with two of that quartet coming this summer as academy product Jarell Quansah joins Bayer Leverkusen for up to £35m in pure profit and former £1.3m signing Sepp van den Berg leaves for Brentford in a deal that could be worth up to £25m.

Elliott probably added at least £10m to his transfer fee with a sensational performance at the U21 Euros that saw him named player of the tournament and the AI names Liverpool as the team to snag him, for £50m to fill some of the attacking output lost from Gordon and Isak.

Napoli had been linked with a move for the 22-year-old but Grok compensates them with Liverpool’s other £50m attacker for sale: Darwin Nunez. He links up with Kevin de Bruyne in an all-star pairing and isn’t the only Red heading to Serie A as the AI sends Chiesa to AC Milan for a £25m fee that would equal a 100% profit.

Finally, Liverpool’s defensive reinforcements render Andy Robertson and Kostas Tsimikas surplus to requirements at Anfield - the former captain joins Atletico Madrid and the latter heads to Leeds for a combined £25m.

AI-predicted 2025/26 Liverpool starting XI: Perhaps Reds fans should be pleased Grok is only handling the transfers rather than the matchday decisions as it picked this 4-2-3-1 for Liverpool after this predicted transfer window - Mamardashvili; Frimpong, Van Dijk, Guehi, Kerkez; Endo, Mac Allister; Salah, Wirtz, Gordon; Isak.