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The Reds have spent big on transfers, and could yet splash out some more before the September 1 deadline, and Slot has begun to implement some changes.

With Florian Wirtz setting a new club record for the most Liverpool has ever spent on a transfer, he is the man who will play the number 10 role most often.

Along with Wirtz, Rio Ngumoha, Ben Doak, Curtis Jones and Hugo Ekitike, Szoboszlai very much impressed at Anfield on Monday.

Playing a deeper role against Athletic Club — often dropping further back even than Ryan Gravenberch, his midfield partner — the Liverpool formation was very clearly a 4-2-3-1 system.

So while Wirtz might be the man around which the Liverpool attack focuses in the final third, using Szoboszlai further back means getting the best of both worlds.

In the stronger starting XI against Athletic Club, it was Szoboszlai and Gravenberch as a midfield two, with Wirtz in front of them.

Jones, in the earlier game, had played very well and looked sharp, and moving forward, of course, Alexis Mac Allister will need to be fitted in somewhere.



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Between Szoboszlai, Wirtz, Mac Allister, Jones and Gravenberch, he has five elite players to fill three spots.