The sample size is small but two weeks into the season, it seems like Liverpool have settled into a pattern for their Premier League title defense – a distinctly chaotic one, to be specific. They exhibit every quality of a team that spent around $400 million this summer in transfer fees, dropping almost all of their funds on attack-minded players, no matter the consequence. The byproduct has been thoroughly entertaining, with the Reds taking a 2-0 lead in each of their opening matches, relinquishing it, and then scoring late to clinch the three points they seemed destined to collect a half hour earlier. Conventional wisdom, though, always kicks in at some point during this version of the Liverpool experience, forcing questions about whether or not the Reds are actually capable of a genui

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