The summer of 2017 was seismic for Liverpool in terms of moving the club forward. Back in the Champions League, the recruitment programme was aggressive and ambitious and key areas were bolstered.
It was the summer when Mohamed Salah arrived; so, too, did Andrew Robertson and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. Liverpool also made their play to get Virgil van Dijk on board. Most excitement, however, was around one particular name: Naby Keita.
Jurgen Klopp would tell anyone who would listen what this pocket dynamo from RB Leipzig could do and saw it as a transformative piece of business.