Liverpool boss Arne Slot (Image: Justin Setterfield - UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images)

For Liverpool supporters who lived through the fallow period, mere mention is sufficient to send a shudder through the spine. During the 30-year spell between championships that was ended in glorious fashion in 2020, two phrases unwittingly encapsulated why the Reds consistently fell short.

The first regarded the infamous final piece of the jigsaw, the one arrival hailed as the player capable of helping Liverpool take the final step only for another hole to immediately open up elsewhere in the squad.

And then there was the problem position of left-back, a role that, despite some honourable mentions, was never properly addressed until the unassuming Andy Robertson was brought in from Hull City in the

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