Expected, of course. Inevitable in fact. That, though, didn’t make it any easier for Liverpool supporters as the revered attacking triumvirate of Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah was banished to the history books earlier this summer.
It had been coming, the parting of ways gradual over the last 18 months as first Diogo Jota and then Luis Diaz challenged the status quo in the Reds attack. Indeed, only five times last season did the long-established trio start the same game, the last occasion of which came in the win at Burnley way back in February.
With Mane now at Bayern Munich, a new chapter is about to be written. Darwin Nunez has joined for a potential club record £85million from Benfica while, for a mere fraction of that cost, teenager Fabio Carvalho has been snapped up from Fulham.
