Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has insisted that Alexander Isak has been signed as a “replacement”, rather than an addition to the squad, seemingly for the departed Darwin Núñez.
Arne Slot has hit back at criticism of Liverpool’s aggressive £450 million ($614.9 million) record-breaking summer of spending, both reminding detractors of the players who have left for big money and claiming that it is absolutely necessary to pay big fees to improve an already elite squad.
