Liverpool came into the season as slight Premier League favorites, but it's hard to remember a preseason favorite surrounded by so many question marks.
There was the tragic death of Diogo Jota -- a not-to-be-quantified loss that affected and is still affecting the team in ways we can't begin to understand. And then there was everything else, too.
Liverpool lost Trent Alexander-Arnold, perhaps the greatest passer of the ball to ever walk the Earth, to Real Madrid. The pressing-and-pirouetting prowess of Luis Díaz departed for Bayern Munich.