Liverpool face most difficult summer transfer decision of all as three deals await
With a network of scouts across the globe, data analysts crunching the numbers and a crack recruitment team whittling down the targets, the importance of signing the right players has never been more apparent for Liverpool.
However, there's another aspect of transfer business often overlooked yet almost as vital that is assuming increasing value after a potentially seismic few days in the summer window.
Knowing the right time when to cash in on a player.
Jurgen Klopp and his coaching staff could well soon be grappling with such a conundrum given the reported interest from the Saudi Pro League in midfielders Thiago Alcantara, Fabinho and, most persistently, skipper Jordan Henderson.
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As things stand, Liverpool have not received any formal expressions of interest from any club, with Al Ittihad reportedly wanting Fabinho while Henderson is a target of, among several clubs, Steven Gerrard's Al-Ettifaq.
That, though, could swiftly change given the continued links coming out of Saudi Arabia with the league having already splashed out hundreds of millions on acquiring talent from Europe in an attempt to bolster their standing on the global stage.
Sometimes, as with Phillipe Coutinho when Barcelona came knocking more than five years, the offer received for a player is simply too good to resist. On other occasions, a move simply hasn't worked out - such as Christian Benteke after Klopp took over the reins from Brendan Rodgers in 2015/16 - and an exit is agreeable for both parties. However, more difficult is determining when the best has been extracted from a player and
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