Liverpool came into the season as slight Premier League favorites, but it's hard to remember a preseason favorite surrounded by so many question marks.

There was the tragic death of Diogo Jota -- a not-to-be-quantified loss that affected and is still affecting the team in ways we can't begin to understand. And then there was everything else, too.

Liverpool lost Trent Alexander-Arnold , perhaps the greatest passer of the ball to ever walk the Earth, to Real Madrid . The pressing-and-pirouetting prowess of Luis Díaz departed for Bayern Munich . The guaranteed chaos and chance creation of Darwin Núñez left for Saudi Arabia. Oh, and a number of reliable backups found new homes, too: Harvey Elliott to Aston Villa , Kostas Tsimikas to AS Roma , Jarell Quansah to Bayer

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