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With new-look tactical strategies, fresh-look teams, and plenty of optimism (and pessimism), another Premier League season has begun. among the supporters.

Liverpool have added attacking reinforcements under Arne Slot, but their balance seems off. They were strong going forward against Bournemouth, but they appeared prone to concede after the break.

Liverpool only allowed two goals from quick breaks throughout the entire season last season. They came close to that number in the first game of the season.

What has Liverpool changed, then?

The personnel provides details on tactics used, and Slot cited poor passing in the middle as a reason for Liverpool’s so-exposing. As they attacked the pitch’s center, these misplaced passes gave the opposition time and space to attack a disorganized defensive configuration.

Because attackers are more close to the goal and in better shooting positions, this is riskier than losing the ball in wide areas.

Although Slot emphasizes the shoddy passing and dispossessions in the middle of the field, it is undisputed that Liverpool committed numerous bodies during their attack. There were occasionally seven or eight players in the Bournemouth box, leaving Liverpool with a back-to-back line of defense.

When the ball was lost, both Joe Gomez and Andy Robertson could not get back to defend the counter-attack because both were attacking in the opposition’s box when Antoine Semenyo scored the second goal.

Rodri’s season-ending injury from September 2013 clearly severely derails Pep Guardiola’s Premier League campaign, and the former champions have been recovering since the start of the year.

Below is a list of Man City’s “non-penalty expected goal difference per game” since the start of the previous year, which illustrates how much a team dominates their games by creating numerous good chances and restricting their opponents to a select few bad chances.

As we can see, Man City are now almost as dominant in games as they were prior to the injury of the Ballon d’Or winner.

Liverpool winger Ben Doak will receive an initial sum of £20 million and additional sums of £5 million in additions from Bournemouth.

The 19-year-old is expected to finish moving to the south coast in the next 24 hours, though this move will still require paperwork and a medical clearance.

Due to ongoing discussions between the two Premier League clubs, Doak was excluded from Liverpool’s 4-2 victory over Bournemouth at Anfield on Friday night.

The forward has six caps for Scotland and played for Middlesbrough on loan last season, scoring three goals and adding seven assists in 24 games. Bournemouth have since signed him, though.

They are said to have beaten interest from Portuguese club Porto and other Premier League clubs, including Leeds.

Since he has only played for Liverpool ten times since joining from Celtic in 2022, Doak’s move will increase his chances of playing first team football.

After spending more than a billion dollars on new signings and having had Newcastle reject a £110 million bid for Alexander Isak, it will increase Liverpool’s sales to around £200 million this summer.

Major acquisitions in the Premier League include Jarrell Quansah, academy player, and £65 million signings of Luis Diaz and Al-Hilal for £46.5 million and £35 million signing of Darwin Nunez to Al-Hilal.

Caoimhin Kelleher, Tyler Morton, and Nat Phillips have also been sold, and Real Madrid has agreed to pay £8 million for Trent Alexander-Arnold’s early release from his contract, despite the Spanish club disputing this figure.

Phillips, Alexander-Arnold, Kelleher, Quansah, and Morton could receive between £80 and $90 million in initial fees as a result of the sale of Doak. The Reds received six players as development projects or as youth players, for an initial sum of $600,000. In terms of profit and sustainability calculations, the subsequent profit for players who are labeled as “homegrown” can all be taken to be “pure profit” to immediately boost the Reds.

Dango Ouattara was sold to Brentford last week for £42.5 million, which was a busy summer for Bournemouth.

Illia Zabarnyi, Dean Huijsen, and Milos Kerkez have already been sold to Paris St-Germain, Real Madrid, and Liverpool for a total of roughly £150 million, respectively.

Andoni Iraola, manager of Bournemouth, claimed that his side is “not where they want to be” before the defeat at Anfield and that “important moves” will be made before the transfer window closes on September 1.

Eli Junior Kroupi, Eli Junior Kroupi, and left-back Adrien Truffert, who were also signed by the club in January, have all joined the club this summer.

Noel Mooney, the CEO of the Football Association of Wales, has revealed the “legacy” role that Wrexham owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney play in their 2035 Women’s World Cup strategy.

The FAW has chosen two of the 16 stadiums that are planned, and the United Kingdom is the only bidder to hold an expanded 48-team tournament in 2035.

The FAW wants one in the south, which would most likely be Cardiff City Stadium, and one in the north, which will be home to Wrexham’s newly constructed Stok Cae Ras.

Reynolds and McElhenney, Warner Bros.’ Hollywood owners, are looking to expand the Red Dragons’ stadium, with a proposed 7,750-seat Kop stand capacity of about 18, 000.

The pair, who were present at the Stok Cae Ras on Saturday to watch Wrexham’s first home game of the championship, said in May 2024 that there might be “between 45, 000 and 55, 000 people there” due to development on all four sides of the field.

“It’s amazing what Ryan and Rob are up to. There is a potential north star for them if they make an investment in the stadium and renovate the Cae Ras, which is the world’s oldest international stadium.

Wales will host the 2026 European Under-19 Championship next summer after FAW and Wrexham had last week spoken about hosting the Women’s World Cup.

The final will take place at the Stok Cae Ras in the north of Bangor, Colwyn Bay, Deeside, Denbigh, Deeside, and Wrexham.

Mooney, who claimed the FAW will launch a 10-year strategy for Welsh football in 2026, added that the story is very powerful for us because it will be celebrated on its 150th anniversary next year.

The timing of Ryan and Rob’s impact was “manna from heaven” for us.

“We’ve had a very good time winning the first women’s Euros and the men’s World Cup, and we’ve seen our young teams start to win significant championships,” said the team’s manager.

Ryan and Rob are coming in as a result.

Wrexham have won three titles in a row under Reynolds and McElhenney, and manager Phil Parkinson has been able to spend around £20 million on player recruitment this summer, including those for Danny Ward, Kieffer Moore, and Nathan Broadhead, who are both from Wales.

With their funding for youth development and the academy, Worcester has already begun collecting a lot of our national team players, adding that the club will produce plenty of players for us in the future.

There is a synergistic relationship where we can add a lot of value to one another.

“Wrexham is being discussed by people all over the world, and that encourages partners like Fifa, business organizations, and governments to get involved.”