Eight points clear at the top of the Premier League, six wins out of six in the Champions League, into another Carabao Cup semi-final... and yet January is likely to be dominated by stomach-churning stories for Liverpool fans.
The Big Three - Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk - are out of contract in the summer, you may have heard, and can agree a deal to join an overseas club from New Year's Day onwards.
Of the three, academy graduate Alexander-Arnold seems closest to an exit, but Salah has laid down ultimatums before and the club may well not acquiesce to captain Van Dijk's wage demands.