Arne Slot has insisted that the summer spree of Liverpool was a necessity to prevent the club from staying behind.
The investment of £ 295 million from Liverpool in this window has been a huge topic of debate, with the additions of Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike, among other things, making the dynamics of how Slot's team attack will be radically different next season.
More may come before the window closes, with a short of a central defender and still on the trail of Newcastle's Aleksander Isak, whose patience has reached the breaking point about his situation at Tyneside. It is still to be seen whether a deal can be done before the window closes.
Whatever happens, Slot is determined that the Liverpool operating shift completed was absolutely necessary. They only bought Federico Chiesa and another window that stopped 12 months ago, according to their head coach, would have had adverse consequences.
In an entertaining interview with the Men in Blazers -Podcast, Slot host Roger Bennett told him that he had become worried about the possibility that rivals work out how to play against his team.
He said: 'We think by adding the creativity of Florian, by adding the pace of Jeremie Frimpong, Hugo and Milos Kerkez, we have quite a few guys who can give us weapons in games (who are tight).
'If you don't evolve, if you keep doing the same thing, people will find the answers to your playing style. And that already happened the bits in the second part of last season – although, although, wise, we got just as many points in the second half of the season in the first half of the season.
“But I saw ourselves struggling a bit more. I think we scored more from set pieces in the second part of the season to make this one goal. West Ham United at home. Nottingham Forest Road. Leicester City gone, where we won with one-zero.
'So we, we also had to trust our set pieces more, which is a very important part of football.
“But in an ideal world we can create even more opportunities on the low block than last season without losing our defensive structure.”
It will be fascinating to see how Slot uses all his options, not in the least young people Trey Nyoni and Rio Ngumoha, who are both part of the first team team and who will certainly be asked to contribute – their efforts through the pre -season have consistently attracted attention.
Ngumoha, who became the youngest player of Liverpool when he appeared in the FA Cup defeat of Accrington Stanley in January, created a Buzz and his goal in the friendly against Athletic Club last Monday was something of beauty, with nine perfect touch to his right foot before fought in a shot.
Lock is not a man who gets entangled in the hype and knows how to keep young players grounded, but he also recognizes Ngumoha – who left Chelsea 12 months ago because he thought Liverpool would offer a better way – can do things differently.
“Rio had a good preseason,” Slot explained to men in wind instruments.
'It took him a while to adjust, which is very normal when you are 16 years old. He was occasionally with us and now, in the preseason, he did really well.
“He brings in the quality. He is not afraid to take one to make the right decisions. If he feels that his teammate is in a better position than he, he will play the ball.
'But I know how difficult it is for 20 -year -olds, 25 -year -olds, 30 -year -olds to play at this level every three days. And this is something we have to give it – time.
'At the moment he is of course not a normal starter, but for him to train at this level every day, will be very difficult and difficult. So let's give him some time to adapt to everything – but he has definitely made a promising start to this preseason. '
Listen here for the full interview of blazers with Arne Slot.