Liverpool broke with a decade-old tradition last season.
Because it was amid the ongoing injury problems at centre-back that the Reds struck out on the winter transfer deadline day and signed not one but two players, the first buzzer-beating additions to the squad they had made mid-season for 10 years.
Not since that heady day of January 31, 2011 when Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll came and Fernando Torres went had Liverpool seen such a flurry of winter action on the final day, although it is safe to say that Ozan Kabak and Ben Davies were slightly less heralded arrivals.
