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If everyone could enjoy a debut year as successful as Arne Slot’s at newly-crowned Premier League champions Liverpool, then no transfer would ever again fall into the ‘flop’ category.

Winning the title in your first season at a new club, however, is very much an anomaly.

And, with Liverpool a staggering 21 points clear of Manchester City with four games remaining, could the 2024/25 campaign go down in the history books as the one where the baton changed hands?

Over in Austria, the struggles of Red Bull Salzburg acts as a painful reminder as to how quickly a dominant force can descend into also-rans.

While Pep Guardiola led Man City to four successive Premier League titles, Red Bull Salzburg held the Austrian Bundesliga in a vice-like grip over a decade of unbroken dominance.

That was, however, until Sturm Graz broke their stranglehold last season.

One year on, Salzburg are limping along in fourth with Austria Vienna in pole position to claim the crown.

And if Arne Slot’s debut year at Liverpool could hardly have gone more to plan, then the complete opposite is true of Bobby Clark’s maiden year in Austria.

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Salzburg invested £10 million in the England Under-21 international last summer, making him the third-most expensive signing in their history.

To think, the reaction from the Liverpool supporters was one of disappointment when it emerged that Clark – shortly after becoming the youngest European goalscorer in the club’s history – was on his way out the door.

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Now, reports from Krone Zeitung claiming that Red Bull Salzburg are set to farm Clark out on loan in the summer speaks volumes about his impact.

And then, of course, we’ll put our heads together and look at the direction towards the summer,, what makes sense and what doesn’t.

“This [situation] is certainly frustrating for Bobby.”

Suggestions that Salzburg would prefer to loan Clark out, however, suggest one of two things.
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