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LIVERPOOL CONFIDENTIAL: The reborn star who can inject life into Arne Slot's forward line, a presidential visit to the training ground and your transfer questions answered

Related Topics: Arne Slot, Federico Chiesa

In elite football you often live and die by the sword. For Arne Slot, the small group of trusted lieutenants who got Liverpool to being Premier League champions-elect are the same stars who contributed to coming up short in the Carabao Cup and Champions League.

After a bruising 120 minutes followed by the psychological let-down of losing on penalties to Paris Saint-Germain, his team looked a shadow of themselves four days later against Newcastle. As Slot said, it was probably the worst performance of the season.