The news felt inevitable but that doesn’t stop it from being significant: Roberto Firmino is to leave Liverpool and that devastating trident is down will be down to one prong.
Firmino, Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane were the reason that Jurgen Klopp’s restoration of Liverpool was able to have such fantastic results. For five years, from 2017, they were Europe’s finest front three, scoring or assisting 399 of the 611 goals they plundered in that period.
It is an extraordinary statistic and while Mane and Salah did the lion’s share of the finishing, Firmino’s importance must never be understated.