One down, one or two to go. Liverpool struck before the transfer window had even officially opened last week to make Alexis Mac Allister their first major signing of the summer.
Jurgen Klopp and the Reds recruitment team have long determined the midfield as a priority as they look to overhaul an engine room that fired on full cylinders only sporadically last season.
World Cup winner Mac Allister, then, won't be the only new arrival for the middle of the park, with Liverpool whittling down their list of targets in the hope of securing at least one more such signing before the start of pre-season in just over three weeks.
