Reality check for Liverpool after summer transfers and tragedy

Liverpool have spent big this summer – now Arne Slot must figure out how to best deploy his changed squad. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Reuters

Wembley was supposed to be a case of the men who weren’t there. It ended up posing questions of the team asked to defend the Premier League title.

Alexander Isak may become a Liverpool player. That will be decided soon enough by the transfer market; a game of charades is being played before money eventually dictates its conclusion.