A record-breaking season by Liverpool and a season of dramatic lessons learned by Manchester United – 2019/2020 was a season that defied old expectations and created new ones for the two most successful teams in England.
Liverpool won the title with an unbelievably dominant stretch of performances, while United – having bought Bruno Fernandes a transfer window too late – recovered from a listless start to clamber up to third place.
The lessons for each club should have been clear – Liverpool had used more or less the same players for the past few seasons and needed reinforcements to both rotate and to inject new blood.