Neymar gently flaps his wings in Paris as Anfield takes title storm 

When the dust settles over the next few years and Klopp, Van Dijk and Salah all leave Anfield, this generation of Reds players and fans will have plenty to remember.

From Origi’s flick of his left foot at the Wanda Metropolitano, helping the team win the ultimate European football prize, to Zimikas’ icy penalty at Wembley helping the Reds win the FA Cup, it’s all about the club’s history One of the greatest battles of all time, and future fans will have plenty of stories to tell.

Liverpool seem to be used to success since their heartache in Kyiv in the 2018 Champions League final. Despite missing out on a memorable quadruple in the final games of the 2021-22 season, Klopp has won six trophies with the Reds during his time at the club, with Henderson even becoming the third A captain who has won six different honours, including the somewhat elusive Club World Cup in the winter of 2019.

Despite the visible efforts of everyone in Klopp’s team over a stellar four-year period, Van Dijk and Alisson are the two men who must stand alone and are often credited with helping Liverpool from The perfect acquisition for an ordinary man to advance to a confident man.

Van Dijk + Allison = Positive solution

In its 130-year history, Liverpool has never lacked top strikers, from Riddle’s heroic performance under Shankly, to Greish’s determination of European dominance, to Suarez and Salah’s consecutive record-breaking and Raising the bar in the Premier League, Anfield has seen it all.

However, since the Reds won their 18th top-flight title in 1990, many title challenges have ended up embarrassingly unraveled here due to a lack of cohesion at the back. For Rodgers’ 2014 Reds, problems at the back squandered what Suarez and his comrades had done well in the final third of the season, and they ended up getting nothing.

Even Klopp’s early days at Anfield were the same. They have brought in Mane, Salah and Robertson, but the German has discovered that his team still has glaring flaws. It was October 2017, at Wembley Stadium, when Reds centre-back Lovren struggled to the touchline and was substituted after his nightmarish 30 minutes of play. He was full of mistakes in those 30 minutes, enough for his manager to make this ruthless but reasonable decision.

Goals from Son Heung-min, Dele Alli and a brace from Harry Kane sent the Reds into the lowest point of Klopp’s early era as they were swept 4-1 by Tottenham. Their defensive shortcomings are no doubt stark, as they scored 16 goals in their first nine Premier League games in 2017-18, the most for a team since 1964-65.

Neymar flaps his wings, Anfield takes the storm

Liverpool should thank Barcelona’s executives for helping transform the entire backline at Anfield overnight. Because the Red Army finally signed the much-coveted Southampton defender Van Dijk in January 2018 for a team record price of 75 million pounds. With the addition of the Dutchman at the expense of Coutinho’s attacking brilliance, the Brazilian has finally achieved his La Liga dream six months after initially trying to reach a deal with Barcelona.

However, after a terrific final half-season at Anfield, Barca were not cheap to buy Coutinho, with former sporting director Michael Edwards selling the Brazilian to Camp Nou for £142m , which is the third most expensive ever for the sport and one of the best achievements of a Reds executive’s career forever.

In fact, the Spaniard is not very concerned about the price of Coutinho. That’s all because they received a world-record £190m transfer fee for Neymar this past summer. This has led to what has been described as 2017 as an important window to reshape the football financial ecosystem.

The Brazilian’s move from La Liga to Ligue 1 undoubtedly caused a domino effect of inflation in European football, and infinitely magnified the rights of the selling club. Although Liverpool seemed to be stung by Southampton’s insistence on the extraordinarily high transfer fee, the Dutchman’s high-profile performance after the switch to Anfield immediately dispelled the Red Army’s high-level and fans’ concerns about his transfer fee.

However, when Karius staged a series of mishaps in the 2018 Champions League final, Anfield executives were forced to spend big again six months later to sign Alisson from Roma. But, like Van Dijk, the impact of the Brazilian goalkeeper’s move to Anfield immediately took Klopp’s Reds to new heights, so it’s not a bad money to spend either.

Let’s go back in time, and five years after that chaotic summer of 2017, Liverpool have proved to the rest of Europe that they are the only winners of this unusually high price of football. Because since then, a large number of clubs have made a large number of top talent transactions – Maguire spent 80 million pounds; Felix made a full £113 million; Griezmann also created a transfer of 107 million pounds – – People have witnessed a ‘billion-euro’ era in the transfer market, but none of their investments have had the impact of Van Dijk and Alisson joining Merseyside.

Success is not just about buying people

Nevertheless, Liverpool is not only able to profit from the transfer market from the buyer’s position. Since 2018, Edwards has helped Liverpool successfully recover about 118 million pounds by selling players. This is the Red Army. The biggest cornerstone of team building. What is commendable is that these players are regarded as leftovers in the Anfield first-team squad.

That figure could increase again in the coming days as defender Neko Williams gets closer to joining Nottingham Forest. The “Echo” said the two clubs have reached an agreement on a transfer fee of 17 million pounds, and the player has only made 13 appearances in the Liverpool first team. The deal underscores just how smart the transfer has been in recent seasons. Williams, who has been with the club since the age of nine, costs the equivalent of around £1.3m per top-flight game.

There are also many impressive deals. In 2020, the academy potential newcomer Brewster switched to Sheffield United for 23.5 million pounds. Funds were then reinvested into Anfield, giving Klopp the opportunity to further improve his squad and pursue success.

It was reported this summer that Paris Saint-Germain are ready to sell their superstar Neymar, as new boss Galti looks to cement his authority at the start of his term.

Neymar’s trip to Paris may be over, in hindsight, when the Brazilian made the move to Paris, there were no winners in European football except Liverpool.