Under the guidance of Jurgen Klopp,Liverpool's transfer dealings have been the envy of just about every other major European club
From the £8million acquisition of Andy Robertson from Hull, to the £36m spent on Mohamed Salah
Spending a lot of money on one player is by no means a guarantee of success, just ask Chelsea, but even the mega-money moves under Klopp have been near faultless. Alisson and Virgil van Dijk.
Yet, none of them are who Klopp singled out as his best signing since the day he took over in the Anfield hot-seat back in October 2015
That honour instead goes to a player who didn't cost the club a single penny in transfer fees.
Klopp explained that his best signing wasn't a signing at all, instead, it was a player he promoted from the academy. He was of course talking about current vice-captain Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Klopp
"It's Trent [Alexander-Arnold],"
"We didn't have to buy him but Pep Lijnders my assistant brought him around and said: 'He played No.6 [role] for me. He played full-back, he played right wing, left wing'.
"Then he came and there was only one problem: Trent was not fit enough. But he was a kid so he was not fit enough but we saw immediately, wow, football-wise no doubts.
"But [he was] not fit enough so we had to work on that. But then he made steps by himself that were really unbelievable and that was really nice to see. Then he made mistakes and didn't give up."
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