ANFIELD — In hindsight, Liverpool probably could have saved themselves £125m on Alexander Isak.

It did seem somewhat excessive to break the British transfer record to bring in another forward after giving Mohamed Salah a wage structure-busting new contract and spending £200m on two other elite-level forward talents .

Initially, however, the consensus was that Liverpool had carried out an all-timer of a transfer window . Yes, they were over-inflated in the strike department, but what a dilemma to have! Is there such a thing as too many world-class options up front?

Yes, as it turns out. Florian Wirtz cost too much money to leave out, and with Salah immovable, Isak, Hugo Ekitike and Cody Gakpo to fit in, the solution previously this term was to deploy as many as possible, at the sam

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