Liverpool waited for Alexander Isak. All summer in a saga that was tiresome long before it was eventually over. But they have carried on waiting since then. They have had their record signing in the No 9 shirt, seen him on the pitch for 311 minutes, spread over six appearances. But not the real Isak.
He has been semi-fit, substitute and substituted, but not the lithe, lacerating and lethal force that prompted Liverpool to pay some £125m for him. Now, Arne Slot believes, they could see the player who broke transfer records and, in his Newcastle days, often served as the elegant destroyer of defences.
