SUMMER SPEND A GROWING CONCERN

Slot’s big off-season splashes have left Isak & Co bearing the weight of expectations

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WITH just over 20 minutes remaining, £165million worth of talent sat down and put its coat on.

If Anfield wanted a snapshot of Liverpool's early season troubles, then they need not have looked any further than the sight of Alexander Isak and Milos Kerkez walking to the dugout, their team stumbling to a sixth Premier League defeat of the season.

Not just a sixth Premier League defeat but a serious beating, a hammering at home at the hands of a quite wonderful Nottingham Forest.

Liverpool's expensive summer is threatening to bring a bleak winter. And while it is grossly unfair to single out one of Arne Slot's players for criticism - they were all woefully under par - Isak's record-breaking price tag means it is inevitable the Swedish striker will come under negative scrutiny.