Watching Liverpool use their bench to such good effect at Burnley was to marvel at the success of their recruitment processes. While other clubs wait to see if players signed in recent summers will ever come good, you have to go back a long way to find a genuine Liverpool dud.
We can discuss players such as Federico Chiesa – left out of Arne Slot’s Champions League squad – Takumi Minamino and certainly Darwin Nunez*.
But the last time Liverpool spent significant money on an out and out rabbit was when they paid RB Leipzig £50m for midfielder Naby Keita back in the summer of 2018.