Man City 3-0 Liverpool: 5 talking points with £450m spent to be far, far worse

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Liverpool were deservedly thumped 3-0 away to Man City in their final game before the November break, prompting more scrutiny over their £450 million summer makeover. Serious questions over summer business We are not quite at the stage where you are worried that Liverpool bought a collection of poor players during the biggest-spending summer of their history.

Build-up issues rear their head again There are some problems a team faces that you just know cannot be solved without dipping into the transfer market, and Liverpool’s issues in build-up are exactly that. Liverpool are awful away from home It is also telling that so many of Liverpool’s hard-luck stories so far this season have come away from home.

They need to make the most of their coming fixtures So now a two-week gap to stew on this defeat and hope Liverpool don’t suffer further injuries during the international break. But if there is one upside for the Reds it is that their fixture list looks a little kinder once they return.