It’s impossible to recall another campaign of a title defender like the one Liverpool are enduring. Article content

They won their record-tying 20th title last season and went out and spent a record amount of money on top-class players to bolster their credentials well into the future. Article content Article content

On top of adding British-record signings Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak, they dished out mega contract extensions to Mo Salah, 32 and Virgil van Dijk, 33.

This went against the grain as owners FSG, which also owns the Boston Red Sox and Pittsburgh Penguins, have a model where they don’t invest big money in players past a certain age — in soccer that age has been 30.

They won the first five games of the season and then everything collapsed. They lost four in a row and

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