Liverpool are getting used to busy ends to the month of January.
On this day 12 months ago, the Reds moved to bring in Ben Davies from Preston North End to help ease a defensive department that was on its knees with a grand total of zero fit senior centre-backs at the club.
Following on from his arrival, armed with the knowledge that Joel Matip would be joining Joe Gomez and Virgil van Dijk on the shelf for the remainder of the campaign, the Reds embarked on an out-of-character dash across Europe to find another centre-half to supplement the arrival of Phillips.