If it really is to be a silent transfer window at Liverpool this summer, it could hand Rhian Brewster the biggest chance of all to kick-start his Anfield career.
Despite Premier League and Champions League titles being delivered in the last two seasons, Jurgen Klopp is not expected to carry out major surgery to the ranks that have served him so valiantly across the last two seasons as the club count the cost of the coronavirus pandemic.
Instead, he will turn to his youth players in the hope that they might follow the trail blazed by Trent Alexander-Arnold.