If the portion of Liverpool's fanbase perplexed by the apparent lack of transfer progress was beginning to swell as July approached, the emergence Dominik Szoboszlai has highlighted their folly.
It's fair to reflect a growing number of supporters were becoming more disgruntled by the silence at the front of house of the AXA Training Centre since Alexis Mac Allister traded Brighton & Hove Albion for Liverpool inside the first week of June.
Links to a quartet of players at the Under-21s European Championships have rumbled on in the background but as Arsenal, Chelsea, Newcastle and Manchester City all made significant moves of their own, there was certainly some growing discontent if social media was being used as the temperature gauge.
