While Liverpool moved quickly to sign Alexis Mac Allister, it remains to be seen who will join the World Cup winner at Anfield as part of a midfield overhaul this summer.
Having controversially not strengthened their engine room last year, the Reds always planned to strengthen their midfield in 2023 with two, if not three, new midfielders expected to be sought. Mac Allister was the first, signed for a fee believed to be in the region of £35m less than two weeks after Liverpool’s 2022/23 season concluded. But while speculation rages on, the Argentine remains the sole arrival over a fortnight later.
That is no reason to panic, of course. From the 20 Premier League clubs, only nine have spent considerable money on new senior signings so far this summer. Even then, three of those clubs have done nothing more than make a previous loan deal permanent.
