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Federico Chiesa was the Reds’ only summer signing, but he has made only three Premier League substitute appearances.

Meanwhile, Joel Matip, Thiago Alcantara and Adrian were the only senior departures, leaving when their contracts expired, with the former pair opting to retire and the latter returning to Real Betis on a free transfer.

Slot has already explained why Liverpool opted to keep their powder dry last summer, admitting he wanted to work with his inherited players before deciding where to improve heading into next season.

"We are looking at every single position and we are looking at the team," he said at the end of February.

"And I think we've said this many times last season, or last summer, we didn't do a lot [in the summer window] because we - Richard, me and all the other people involved - just wanted to know how these players were working with me, the different manager.

"Now we have a very good idea about that, and I think it's clear to you that I'm not going to tell you which positions we prefer.

Yet such claims are made separate to what happens with the out-of-contract trio of Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold.

From Liverpool’s current senior ranks, the majority of players have been the subject of transfer speculation at one point or another this season and have question marks against their futures as a result.

Beyond Alisson Becker, Dominik Szoboszlai, Alexis Mac Allister, Curtis Jones, Cody Gakpo, Ryan Gravenberch and Conor Bradley, it would not be a major surprise if any of Slot’s other players departed this summer for a variety of reasons.

Now of course, Liverpool aren’t going to wave off the best part of 20 senior stars this summer.

But they still managed to part with an initial £72.75m when bringing in Kostas Tsimikas, Thiago Alcantara and Diogo Jota.

Yet three new signings is the joint-lowest by a defending champion over the past six years since Manchester City’s dominance started under Pep Guardiola.

Before City’s paltry £23m spend last summer - which was then followed by an £180m outlay in January as their title defence fell apart - the Reds’ own spend was also the lowest total in recent years.

City’s £23m spend followed a £211m outlay in the summer of 2023 - a record for a reigning Premier League champion.

But even if not, they could well break their own £161m record spend from the summer of 2018.

Meanwhile, it could well prove to be the Reds’ busiest summer since Klopp’s first full season in charge back in 2016/17.

That summer, the German brought in six new faces for £65.9m, including Sadio Mane, Gini Wijnaldum and Joel Matip.

And while they parted with an initial £77.4m on four players in the summer of 2022, the bulk of that was on club-record signing Darwin Nunez as teenagers Calvin Ramsay and Fabio Carvalho also arrived along with the loan signing of Arthur Melo.

The summer of 2023 proved an exception as Liverpool spent an initial £146m when revamping their midfield, bringing in Mac Allister, Szoboszlai, Wataru Endo and Gravenberch.
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