When Alexander Isak was finally confirmed as a Liverpool player, many supporters from rival title challengers wrote off their team’s chances of toppling the champions this season there and then. Even after seeing Liverpool make it four wins from four at Burnley, however, many may be reconsidering such a position.
Having broken the British transfer record for one multi-faceted forward in Florian Wirtz and added one of Europe’s most exciting attackers in Hugo Ekitike to further build on a title-winning, 86-goal strikeforce from last season, Liverpool appeared to be simply satirising the competition when they launched another record bid for Isak.
