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July 2018 is the month that changed Liverpool's history for the better after the signing of Alisson Becker was announced and the final piece of the puzzle was complete.
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Any debate over who Brazil's first-choice keeper would be for the tournament in Qatar was ended tonight when the Liverpool hero, and not his Manchester City rival Ederson, started in goal for Tite's team.
Liverpool's level this season has dropped, that is clear for all to see, but Alisson has been better than ever and a World Cup win could put him among the very best the game has seen between the sticks.
Liverpool went one better than the season before and lifted their sixth Champions League in Madrid with Alisson putting in a man-of-the-match display to keep a clean sheet against Tottenham Hotspur.
A calamitous display from Loris Karius in the Champions League final just months prior forced the hand of Jurgen Klopp and, despite saying that a new No.1 wasn't on the radar, in came Alisson for a world-record fee for a goalkeeper at the time.
Once Alisson arrived on Merseyside, it was clear Liverpool had a goalkeeper with the kind of talent they hadn't seen for many years.
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