Liverpool is still yet to make a transfer this summer, making it not only the last Premier League side to act but the last side in Europe's top seven divisions
Of course, Arne Slot inherited a team far better than most of the other 131 clubs, but that hasn't prevented some ridicule from the Spanish media.
The facts are relatively simple. Slot is equipped with broadly the same side that Jurgen Klopp steered to third and a trophy last season
Klopp was a generational manager, and even then the team ran out of steam toward the end.
it's clearly not unreasonable to suggest that Liverpool could have benefitted from some business.
At the same time, it's obvious that the Reds have not somehow been rendered entirely uncompetitive
There are still a couple of weeks in which Liverpool can add to the squad
one player who now looks certain not to be joining is Martin Zubimendi.
Liverpool looked all set to make the Real Sociedad midfielder the first signing of the Slot era.
But having given the go-ahead to Richard Hughes, the new club sporting director, Zubimendi changed his mind.
Slot's side has been ridiculed for the continuation of the trend.
"Nobody wants to go to Liverpool," declares the AS headline.
“As well as Zubimendi, it rattles off Jude Bellingham, Moises Caicedo, Romeo Lavia, Aurelien Tchouameni and Enzo Fernandez, all of whom have been points of pain within the last couple of years.”
Just for good measure, it points out that Xabi Alonso also elected to stay put rather than come to Anfield
it warns Slot that all of the recent rejections from players came even with Klopp at the helm, the implication being that joining the Reds has since become less appealing.
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