It’s often said that the key to Liverpool’s seemingly never-ending era of success in the 1970s and 80s was the club’s ability to replace key players just before their powers began to wane.
Perhaps motivated by Bill Shankly’s fierce loyalty which saw the iconic Scot initially reluctant to break up his first great side and led to a seven-year trophy drought between 1966 and 1973, his successor Bob Paisley gained something of a reputation for the ruthless way he would move players on and refresh his Liverpool team in a bid to keep them at the top.
It was largely a highly successful ploy with the quietly-spoken but canny north-easterner plundering a remarkable twenty major honours - six league championships, three European Cups, one UEFA Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, three League Cups and six Charity Shields - in nine seasons at the helm but it was not always entirely fool-proof.
