Hughes: Liverpool s signings this summer are long-term goals; finding a satellite team will be of great help

Hupu September 20th Hughes attended the IMGxRedBird Summit with the club CEO Billy Hogan.

He was asked about Liverpool's transfer strategy and why they were confident that they would spend huge sums of money to introduce Isak and Wilz.

"You have to pull away your team, and potential transfer fees as much as possible. First, it is crucial to find the right player, under the right system, led by the right head coach, which I don't think is new to the club and its owners.

If you look back on the historical transfer fees of Alisson Becker (£66.8 million in July 2018) and Virgil Van Deck (£75 million in January 2018) and compare it to the 2025 transfer fees, you will find that compared to some of the transfer fees this summer, The transfer fee levels are almost the same.

We pay what we think is fair based on the age of the players and the need to integrate into the team. We hope that over time, rather than talking about how high the transfer fee is now, it is better to think that it is worth the money for the club every time we evaluate in the future.

Given the age of the players we purchased, we believe that it will eventually be."

Hughes added that he believes Isaac and Wiltz are long-term investments, and they can play for many years at the club, rather than players they may one day consider turning the hands and making profits.

"It's largely our wish, and buying young players is empowering ourselves to achieve this goal, and we want to strive for victory now, which is also important, so I won't describe them as 'growing players' or something like that.

These players have achieved a lot in their respective careers. We're talking about Florian and Alex, but Milos, Jeremy and Hugo are all players who have reached a certain level in the game."

Although club owner Fenway Sports Group (FSG) has not yet advanced to include a second football club in its portfolio, it is committed to doing so and has conducted due diligence on several teams in Europe, following negotiations on Getafe, Malaga and Bordeaux.

Hughes's experience at Bournemouth made him very familiar with how to run a club affiliated with a wider portfolio.

"Get talent at a younger, cheaper stage of development, and then be able to develop them in your own company. The environment is obviously worth pursuing. Bill Welfare acquired France's Lorient and then held a stake in Scotland's Hibernian, and I had some experience in Bournemouth at the time.

Take Bournemouth for example, during the January transfer window we signed Dango Ouatara from Lorient, thanks to this structure.

Being able to go to Lorient to sign the players we think they are the most talented, which was good for us, and although Lorient fans are not necessarily very grateful for this, from Bournemouth's perspective, we got talent in a simple way.

We had intelligence and information about individuals that we usually don't have, and that was exactly what Dango was like. He later became a very outstanding

If this approach works for us, it means we can focus on global recruitment to try more opportunities in the market, like clubs like Brighton, which have achieved very good results.

This does have many benefits, but I believe it has challenges, so you need enough good staff to operate properly, and for us, it is not a big problem. If this happens, we will be prepared for staffing."