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Yet this summer appears to mark a change in Liverpool’s transfer policy; an alteration that has been a year in the making.

Few head coaches and sporting directors work together as efficiently as Liverpool’s chief strategists, a fact perhaps most underlined by last summer’s decision to essentially stick with the squad left by Jurgen Klopp.

Of course, it ultimately proved to be an inspired decision, one that resulted in the Premier League title returning to Anfield.



Liverpool’s Premier League rivals know that Slot and Hughes could be constructing a side capable of dominating for years to come.

Other clubs maybe can, but this club is run in a specific way.”

Under his regime, Liverpool routinely stepped away from exorbitant transfer pursuits such as Leny Yoro, Jude Bellingham, and Arda Guler

To stretch the boxing analogy further, it’s a club very much in the heavyweight category.

“Every team spends a lot of money over here, that’s why it’s such an interesting league to be part of,” Slot said in January.



But under the guise of Slot, Hughes, Michael Edwards, and FSG, Liverpool appears ready to step into a new epoch.

Wirtz’s signing is momentous in many senses, not least because the Reds held off competition from Europe’s elite