Liverpool’s record breaking summer window: How are the new players fitting in?

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A look at the new players at Liverpool this summer.

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00:00So, well, looking at Liverpool in terms of the summer,

00:05I mean, obviously it's a bit of a massive bit of investment

00:08this summer that we've seen their transfer record broken.

00:11They've been involved with numerous talks

00:13for other Europe top talent as well.

00:16Do you feel this has been a real catalyst in Liverpool's,

00:19this Liverpool 2.0 sort of figure that they're building now

00:23with Arnie Schlotten, obviously, to come in

00:26and win the Premier League titles maybe even a bit early

00:30to do it in his first season?

00:31He's now got that chance to go and defend it really well

00:34with some top additions as well.

00:36Yeah, it's been a funny one because obviously

00:37the Premier League champions, they go off and they have

00:40somewhat of a squad overhaul, which, as we speak now,

00:45a few days before the season starts,

00:46I don't think they're finished in the transfer market yet.

00:49I mean, I think everyone knew it was going to be a busy summer,

00:53but maybe not as busy as this.

00:57And as I say, people have gone from champions

00:59to maybe being, not a work in progress,

01:02but just, you know, after that Community Shield,

01:04lost to Crystal Palace, there's certainly factors

01:08that Arnie Schlotten's going to have to tweak

01:12ahead of the start of the season.

01:14But, look, I think the areas that need to be addressed

01:18have been addressed in terms of the full-backs,

01:22Trent Alexander Arna go, Jeremy Fringpong coming in,

01:24a left-back Milos Kerkers arriving,

01:27a new striker Hugo Eketike arriving,

01:31the goalkeeper Mamadash Vili was in the offing for a year,

01:35and following Burt was a bit of a surprise arrival,

01:39a very pleasant surprise arrival.

01:41But if you were a set and Liverpool scored at the end of last season,

01:45you maybe thought you might be able to just get by

01:48without an attack on the field for one more year,

01:50with Sir Bosley there, with Curtis Jones there.

01:53But instead, Arna Schlotten's gone out

01:55and pay just one for a club record fee of 100 million,

02:02a club rise to 116, that would be a British transfer record.

02:07But Liverpool aren't done yet.

02:08They've obviously sold, you know,

02:10there was Diaz and Darwin Nunes, the short,

02:13and, you know, the tragic death of Diogo Jota as well,

02:18which is just, everyone's still getting a header around,

02:22a header around, but Liverpool are short of options

02:26in the attacking third.

02:27Alexander Isaac is obviously on the agenda.

02:30And central defence is another area where a lot of fans

02:35would like to see balls because they sold Gerald Quanta

02:38to buy a labour coups,

02:41and now Gerald Quanta was a fringe player last season.

02:43He only made his one league start on route

02:46to actually winning the title when it was claimed

02:48against Tottenham, and that was on the first day

02:49of the season at Ipswich, and he was subbed off for half-time.

02:54But Liverpool needs options if they're going to be competing

02:56for the Champions League as well as the Premier League.

02:59So, yeah, we've got, what, three weeks to go on the window,

03:02something like that.

03:03I think there's still business that could be done

03:07in terms of incomes and outgoings.

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