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The club starts 2025 eight points clear at the top of the table Premier League The summit could end with an even bigger deficit for leaders. A year of triumph and tragedy liverpool There has also been unprecedented spending. A look at the league table and their transfer business shows they have spent £450m to make the situation worse. Entering 2026, they are just halfway through the Premier League campaign. If a team’s half-term report says “can do better,” then that applies to most of their signings.
Of course, Giovanni Leoni couldn’t have performed better in the second half of the season as he will miss the rest of the campaign. The Italians are blameless for this and, to varying degrees, others can make mitigating circumstances for their meager returns. But Jeremy Frimpong has only made two starts in the league so far. Alexander Isaac Only two Premier League goals (and no Champions League goals). Florian Wirtz Only 1 league goal and assist. In each case, the same statistics over the next five months would have doomed their Anfield debut.
However, as far as Wirtz is concerned, Liverpool are entitled to assume that he is not flattered by the numbers and that the German is performing better than those mediocre numbers would suggest. Looking at the most basic statistics, Milos Kolquez has made 15 starts in the league so far, which will count as a positive, although another argument is that some of that should go to the under-utilized Andy Robertson. Still, there’s a sense that, like Wirtz, Kolquez is adapting after an awkward start. but only Hugo EkiticA team that has scored eight Premier League goals so far has been an unqualified success.
As a unit, Slaughter hopes they can achieve more in the second half of the season. “Yes, yes, of course,” he said. He also believed it was his duty to get more from them. This could be read as an admission that he has struggled to summon their best so far.
“This isn’t just for new players,” he added. “If you bring in a lot of new players and a lot of players leave, usually at least if I do my job, the longer they’re here, the more training time and game time, the better football they’re going to play. History has shown many times that the longer players play together, the better your chances of winning games. You saw that last season because that team was here the year before, just like Jurgen.” [Klopp]”.
If Slott seems to have robbed himself of some of the glory of winning the Premier League, there is a reason not to spend £450m and not carry out a complete overhaul. The Dutch consider some of these regulations to be enforceable. “If you add players to what you already have, there’s a lot of opportunity for improvement,” he said. “If you do a replacement like we did, it takes time. Usually it gets better after a while.”
This must be hope. Liverpool’s shortcomings at full-back don’t look like great recruitment so far. But Slaughter countered: “Trent [Alexander-Arnold] left. That’s not ideal for me because Trent is so important. His successor has been injured twice, but Frimpong has shown attacking dynamism in the past two games against Tottenham Hotspur and Wolves. “When we looked at the market, Jeremy was one of the first people we noticed,” Slott said. “He has similar pace to Conor. [Bradley]Milos and Robbo. ”
The worst part for Frimpong is that at times midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai was favored over him. It remains to be seen whether Sloter actually trusts his countryman to play at right back. But pace has always been a theme in Liverpool’s purchases: both at full-back and forward.
However, Isaac has struggled to keep up, rarely looking fully healthy. A record signing for the UK at £125m, he is the face of a spending spree. In his absence, Slott believes some of Liverpool’s money has not been reflected on the pitch, with them not paying historically huge sums but rather making a rather small net spend on existing players.
“Unfortunately we won’t see Giovanni Lenny this season and it will be a long time before Alex sees him again,” he outlined. “You can figure out how much it was and add in how many we sold. It could be an interesting story.”
The story of the man worth £450 million is interesting enough. So far, despite Ekitek’s performance and despite Wirtz’s budding talent, this has been an unpleasant experiment with unsatisfactory results. Perhaps, as a unit, they are being held back by Isak, who will not be able to score two league goals until at least March. But if everyone gets more production, Slaughter expects to see better production in the second half of the season. Without improvement, the assessment will be unworthy of praise. He, like them, will be judged on their performance.