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🚨 Liverpool's £410m Summer Nightmare Still Haunts Them at Newcastle

24 August 2026, 20:40
📝 THE FULL PICTURE: Liverpool walked out of St James' Park with a point, but they looked shaky doing it. Anthony Elanga caught them on the break to put Newcastle ahead, then Joe Willock restored the lead. Same story as last season: runners through vacant space, no holding midfielder to clean up. Iraola's boys showed resilience to snatch the draw, but the flaws are still there. Frimpong and Kerkez were unconvincing at full-back, Van Dijk keeps dropping deeper, and the £410m spent on six signings last summer has produced almost nothing. Hugo Ekitike looked like the only hit, and he's out with a ruptured Achilles. That mess is still haunting Liverpool. 💭 MY TAKE: Look, every team except Arsenal looks undercooked right now. But Liverpool's issues aren't rust, they're structural. They blew roughly £410m last summer, got almost nothing, and the holding midfielder never came. Michael Edwards left, Van Dijk can't turn, and the counterattack is a recurring nightmare. This isn't on Slot. It's on whoever greenlit that spending spree. Iraola needs to fix this fast, because Arsenal won't wait.
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