And yes, we’re not just talking about the three straight road defeats (Crystal Palace, Galatasaray, Chelsea), because you need to lump those six straight victories in all competitions into it. Because those weren’t convincing performances either — a plan based on scoring late, late winners is no plan at all — and it was fairly evident that 2025-26 Liverpool bore only a passing resemblance to 2024-25 Liverpool, the side that wrapped up the Premier League title before the end of April.
So what’s changed? Well, the guys playing. Liverpool said goodbye to Trent Alexander-Arnold, Luis Díaz and Darwin Núñez (not everyone’s cup of tea, but still a mainstay who ate up a lot of minutes) among others in the transfer window, while adding two brand-spanking-new fullbacks (Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong), two new strikers (Hugo Ekitike and Alexander Isak) and Florian Wirtz, a huge talent of the sort you build your team around.
