The truth often unspoken about Liverpool is how they far they had to go back before they could try to move forwards again.
Liverpool won the Premier League last season and almost immediately lost three-quarters of their forward line.
The sales of Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez had been a while in the coming. The passing of Diogo Jota could not have been foretold.
Together the removal of those three players presented with Liverpool with a question not familiar to most teams who win a big title.