The summer weeks of Liverpool's pre-season gave Jurgen Klopp and his staff a rare chance to take a step back and think.
A month-long stay away from Merseyside, divided between three weeks in Austria before a final few days in France, was the ideal moment for those in the inner circle to plot.
Liverpool 's schedule, one that often sees them play three times a week, means there is often little prospect of developing fresh tactical blueprints on the pitches of the AXA Training Centre.
