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Liverpool’s transfer policy: Sensible spending or leaving the squad exposed?
JAMES NALTON considers Liverpool’s quiet transfer window, and asks whether a sense of disappointment is simply down to exorbitant expenditure elsewhere
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp
THERE are conflicting emotions and varying assessments of Liverpool’s squad after the most recent transfer window.
This is partly due to the most powerful clubs in football having almost infinite resources to draw upon, thus moving the goalposts in terms of what a good squad looks like.
Looking at Liverpool, there is a strange feeling which combines an acknowledgement that the club have one of the best groups of players in their history, but also that they needed something extra which didn’t arrive in this transfer window.
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