Liverpool came agonisingly close to domestic glory last term, so Jurgen Klopp's side headed into the summer knowing that they only needed some minor fine-tuning to challenge again this year.
However, the landscape has changed dramatically at the summit of the Premier League over the course of the off-season; Manchester City have acquired one of Europe's deadliest strikers in Erling Haaland, while the rest of the top-flight's big guns have also been busy in the transfer market.
Klopp has not rested on his laurels and has refreshed his squad ahead of the 2022/23 campaign, and the Reds have a new-look attack following Sadio Mane's departure. But has the German boxed off everything he set out to achieve at the beginning of the summer? Here, Mirror Football takes a look...