Never mind Trent Alexander-Arnold, forget about the tens of names chugged out by the transfer rumour mill every single day – there is one piece of business they must do that trumps all.
Arne Slot. Tie him down to a new, multi-year contract.
To put it simply, he is now the most important man in the building. Alexander-Arnold may be today’s news but will be tomorrow’s chip paper. Adios, he is gone and Liverpool now must move on.
But one thing they will have learned from that saga, through no fault of the new regime’s making really, is that they cannot let the contracts of key figures run down and allow seeds of doubt over their futures to grow.