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Despite winning the Premier League less than one month ago, Liverpool are in the middle of something of a rebuild this summer.

The Reds won the league on the back of barely doing any business at all in 2024, but have quickly moved to get some bodies through the door this year.

The most important of those signings looks set to be Florian Wirtz, who completed a record-breaking move to Anfield on Friday.

While Liverpool fans have been toasting the addition of a genuinely world-class new player, though, not everyone will be quite so cheerful.

Here are three winners, and three losers, of the biggest signing in Liverpool history.

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It has been quite some time since Liverpool brought in a ‘finished product’ player who is completely ready to hit the ground running at Anfield.

There is an argument that this will benefit the whole Liverpool squad, with top players always enjoying coming across others of a similar level.

But while that may be in part true, there is arguably no Liverpool player who will be as pleased to see Wirtz sign as Mohamed Salah.

Liverpool were far too heavily reliant on Salah for goals last season and although the Egyptian won’t mind that to some degree, you can only imagine how good the link-up could be between Wirtz and the No.

Mouth-watering.

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And if Salah is to feel the benefit of having such a brilliantly creative player alongside him, then the main rewards of that will be felt by Arne Slot.

Anything which helps Liverpool win football matches is going to help Slot, and Wirtz is a player who can secure a result all by himself.

Wirtz praised Slot in his first ever interview as a Liverpool player, and the appreciation is clearly very much mutual.

Finally, if players and coaches are to take advantage of Wirtz’s arrival, then the Liverpool fans are the real winners.

Although fans may not always care, necessarily, there are losers as well as winners after every new transfer in football.

In terms of Wirtz, it remains to be seen exactly where he will fit into Slot’s XI, so it is hard to say exactly whose place he will take.

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However, the 22-year-old is very much an attacking midfielder, and while he will bump someone from the first XI, he will also relegate those further down the pecking order to even less of a role.

Unfortunately, the biggest loser in this regard is likely to be Harvey Elliott, who now looks virtually certain to leave Liverpool.