Gone are the days where they’d splash eye-watering sums of money on terrible signings – £35million for Andy Carroll and £20million for Stewart Downing spring to mind right away.
These days there’s an expectation that any signing the Reds make is world class or will become world class under Jurgen Klopp’s management.
Takumi Minamino is Liverpool’s latest recruit after putting pen-to-paper on a deal from Red Bull Salzburg for a mere £7.25m.
Klopp has to take a huge amount of credit for Liverpool’s excellent work in the transfer market but another man has played a huge part in transforming their fortunes too.
November 4, 2016 may not mean a lot to Kopites but it really should ,as that was when Michael Edwards was appointed sporting director of the club.
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Everything changed then and Liverpool have made a number of great signings over the past three years, including Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah.
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Edwards has been at the club since 2011, initially as head of analytics before being promoted to director of technical performance and then technical director.
So he would have played a key role in recruiting the likes of Sadio Mane and Georginio Wijnaldum in the summer of 2016 too.
talkSPORT.com has looked at all the signings Liverpool have made since Edwards became sporting director and ranked them.