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It's very easy, in hindsight, to say that Liverpool dodged a bullet in picking Slot over Amorim.

According to The Times, internal calculations at Anfield reckoned that it would cost $515 million (£400 million) to reshape the squad in his image.

By contrast, Slot has been able to implement his approach with the exact squad left behind by Klopp, notwithstanding the 25 league minutes played by Federico Chiesa.



Much like Liverpool, it does not have the squad to suit a back three, and yet it ploughed ahead with the appointment.

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And so Amorim is doomed to keep plugging away, insisting on a formation that does not suit the squad, and insufficiently backed to truly make it click with new personnel.

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Unless significant investment is forthcoming, it is hard to see how Amorim could ever succeed, something Liverpool foresaw in its hiring process