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View image in fullscreenAlexander-Arnold’s maverick talent will be missed as Liverpool near tipping point

Rebuild job was always waiting for Arne Slot and expected exit of homegrown star to Real Madrid marks its start

To make an end is to make a beginning: the end is where we start.

Wise words there from TS Eliot, who, to be fair, never had to rebuild a high-end Premier League team while also dealing with closing out a title race, natural era-wastage, and losing your most successful homegrown player since the glory days of Phil Thompson waving the European Cup around in the pub and all that.

For Liverpool supporters it seems likely the next month will bring a wildly varying emotional register.

Let’s see how that pans out for the lads.

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This is the real point about the news that Trent Alexander-Arnold’s move to Real Madrid is all but done.

To date Slot has been able to show only his best side, repurposing inherited parts, adding new gears and altering the tempo, always sure-footed in public, striding his touchline looking like the owner of a successful chain of provincial bakers here to receive a regional business award from the Duchess of Sandwich.

It is still best to see the new era as a hybrid to this point, an extended Viking funeral for the age of Klopp.

And while Slot has been rightly praised for his excellent choices, it does help to have a fearless dead-eye super-ripped machine-genius finisher in the team who just keeps validating every single one of them by scoring the winning goal.

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Again, uncertainty and departures also present an opportunity.

Every major departure also brings with it a note of freedom, all the more so for Slot, with a league title all but under his belt.

For all the serene progress to this point, this team doesn’t really look finished.