Liverpool could seize on transfer opportunity to trigger bargain release clause

Liverpool are partial to a release clause buy, with the avoidance of transfer bidding war proving to be particularly attractive to the Reds.

Under Jurgen Klopp’s watch, Liverpool have bought 25 senior players with more than a year left on their contracts on a permanent basis. Six of those deals have been aided by transfer release clauses.

Half of the Reds’ £150m midfield revamp last season was completed courtesy of such clauses, with Liverpool snapping up Alexis Mac Allister from Brighton & Hove Albion and Dominik Szoboszlai after agreeing to meet their £35m and £60m releases.

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Of course, the signing of Hungarian wasn’t the first time the Reds had shopped at the Red Bull group, with Ibrahima Konate and Takumi Minamino joining the club after Liverpool matched their £36m and £7.25m release clauses at RB Leipzig and Red Bull Salzburg respectively.

They also agreed to meet Naby Keita’s release clause when trying to sign the Guinean in the summer of 2017, aware it wouldn’t kick in for another 12 months. While RB Leipzig had no intention of selling the midfielder at the time, they signed off on a deal for the following year which would see Liverpool match his would-be release clause of £48m, and pay a premium on top dependent upon how they fared in the Bundesliga in 2017/18.

A sixth place finish resulted in an overall transfer fee of £52.75m in the summer of 2018.

And that same window, the Reds also activated a relegation release clause in Xherdan Shaqiri’s Stoke City contract following their demotion to the Championship, which