Richard Jolly: Has Arne Slot unbalanced Liverpool, making them defensively weaker, with all the transfer spending?

Talking Point

Liverpool manager Arne Slot watches the action against Crystal Palace in Wembley on Sunday. Photo: Matthew Childs/Reuters

Spending can bring its own problems. Some footballers can be weighed down by their price tags, though there were precious few signs of that when the £100m signing Florian Wirtz found the £69m buy Hugo Ekitike to score four minutes into their Liverpool bows. But some teams can be unbalanced by expenditure.

Arne Slot assessed a first meaningful match after Liverpool gave their defence a £75m makeover and concluded: “We need to be better defensively.” It wasn’t an attempt to make the Community Shield an indictment of Jeremie Frimpong and Milo

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