It is a strange thing to say about a team that reaches the Premier League title – but Liverpool reaches the end of an era.
Five players remain from the team that secured the sixth European Cup of the Club against Tottenham in 2019.
And they all played their last Champions League match in Anfield in Tuesday's defeat by Paris Saint-Germain.
Baas Arne Slot did not appreciate it to be asked about this on TV immediately after losing the penalty shootout for the French champions.
But skipper Virgil van Dijk admits that he has “no idea” where he will play next season, while fellow representative Mo Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold are also a tight lips of their futures.
The shape of Andy Robertson, another winners of Klopp 2019, has fallen from a cliff, with a conclusion that gives priority to a left -wing upgrade this summer.
And Alisson-Die Liverpool in the PSG stumpdas held with an extraordinary display in the 1-0 legs of his Team-Wordt also threatened.
Georgian keeper Giorgi Mhaldashvili, who arrives from Valencia this summer, is considered his final replacement.
It means that the last remains of the European champions of Jurgen Klopp 2019 can be wiped out soon.
It would be ridiculous to suggest too much downfall and gloom in Anfield as a Slot's side romping to only their second Premier League title and with Sunday Carabao Cup final against Newcastle afterwards.
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Klopp's Midfield Refamp worked a treat in the summer for the last time – with Alexis Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch and Dominik Szoboszlai it all tears in the Premier League.
Now similar revision may be needed in defense and attack with two important defenders from the contract, together with target machine Salah.
In the meantime, Darwin Nunez's shootout accentuated the fact that the Uruguayan at the highest level is not good enough.
Liverpool received nine fines in the competition this season – no other club except Bournemouth has had more than four.
And yet Spot-Kicks proved their undo against the impressive side of Luis Enrique.
PSG's superiority over two legs showed that the Premier League is not as powerful as we like to think.
There is now a big chance of not an English club in the semi -final of the Champions League for a second consecutive season.
The fact that Liverpool is ready to win the title with a double figure point margin, was but was surpassed for three-quarters of the PSG stumpdas a wake-up call for the domestic competition.
This after Real Madrid had hammered our four-in-one-row champions Manchester City in the play-off round.
In the aftermath of Tuesday's exit, Slot moaned about the 'unfairness' of it so early in the competition to have to face PSG, he had awarded the qualification group of 36 team.
Yet that has always been the nature of knockout football.
PSG, together with Real and City, struggled in Europe before Christmas and ended up unadman.
The side of Enrique should come over in the sharp end of the Champions League due to a lack of domestic competition.
But maybe it was Liverpool.
This has not been a vintage Premier League season, with City in Meltdown, Arsenal destroyed by injuries and indiscipline, Chelsea, seriously inexperienced, while Manchester United and Tottenham have disappeared without traces.
The first season of Slot will be rightly considered a roaring success, whatever happens in the showpiece of Sunday at Wembley.
But because Alexander-Arnold is likely to miss due to injury, Konate Ibrahima has a doubt and the entire team played two hours with high intensity football before the misery of a shootout defeat, Newcastle will understand their chances much more than for Tuesday.
The Liverpool players will still parade the Premier League trophy for the first time in April or early May for a full Anfield – their earlier title win during the Covid Pandemic.
Yet the team that defends that title next season can indeed look very different.
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