LONDON:
Armed with round 260 million kilos ($348.56 million) value of recent signings, Liverpool have spared no expense in attempting to make sure final season’s Premier League title marked the daybreak of a brand new age of domination in English soccer.
The post-Juergen Klopp period started with Dutchman Arne Slot’s facet wrestling management from Manchester Metropolis and turning the title race right into a procession as their rivals imploded.
Successful back-to-back titles for the primary time since 1984 is more likely to show a quite extra arduous problem.
Premier League golf equipment have already splurged in extra of two billion kilos with the likes of Arsenal, Metropolis and Chelsea all flexing their muscle mass with assertion signings.
Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur will certainly enhance drastically on woeful home campaigns final season whereas the likes of Aston Villa and Newcastle United will once more be making themselves heard on the prime desk.
Whereas Liverpool will not care, final season’s Premier League marketing campaign was not a classic version, with the title sewn up early, the relegation victims all too predictable and the primary curiosity being the jostle for European qualification. Hopes are excessive that the brand new season will provide extra intrigue.
LFC able to defend crown
It is going to be a sombre event as Liverpool and Bournemouth kick off a 380-match Premier League slog on Friday with the Anfield trustworthy remembering Diogo Jota, the membership’s Portugal ahead who died alongside his brother in a automobile crash in July.
Whereas Jota will perpetually have a spot within the hearts of the Kop, new heroes are able to emerge, none extra so than German midfielder Florian Wirtz and French ahead Hugo Ekitike.
Liverpool smashed their switch document once they paid Bayer Leverkusen an preliminary 100 million kilos to signal the 22-year-old Germany worldwide, who scored 57 objectives and supplied 65 assists in 197 appearances for the Bundesliga membership.
Allied with the tempo and energy of 23-year-old Ekitike, signed from Eintracht Frankfurt for an preliminary 69 million kilos, Liverpool can have extra innovative this season.
They’ve additionally upgraded in defence with highly-rated left again Milos Kerkez set to problem Andy Robertson and Jeremie Frimpong to fill the opening left by the departure of Trent Alexander-Arnold to Actual Madrid.
“I believe there’s at all times room for enchancment in each division,” Slot stated after Liverpool beat Athletic Bilbao 3-2 in a pre-season pleasant. “We have added just a few additional weapons.” The Dutchman was additionally fast to level out that Liverpool’s rivals haven’t “stood nonetheless”, particularly Arsenal and Metropolis.
Below Mikel Arteta, Arsenal have been agonisingly near a primary Premier League title since 2004, twice pushing Manchester Metropolis arduous and final season rising as Liverpool’s sole rivals earlier than falling away.
