It was a summer transfer window that saw precious little activity on the incoming front for Liverpool.
Fresh from lifting European Cup No.6 in Madrid on June 1, the Champions League holders entered into the market with little desire to splurge.
The near £250million outlay across 2018 that saw Virgil van Dijk, Alisson Becker, Naby Keita, Fabinho and Xherdan Shaqiri all arrive was never going to be repeated this summer.
New contracts to players like Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah, Divock Origi, Joe Gomez, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Andy Robertson have all taken significant chunks out of the Liverpool pot over the last 18 months or so, too.
So while the relatively low-key arrivals of Sepp van den Berg, Harvey Elliott, Andy Lonergan and Adrian might have appeared quizzical to some, a much more conservative window was likely for a team who finished with 97 Premier League points last term.
Indeed, the majority of Liverpool's transfer dealings was of the outgoing variety with the Reds banking close to £54m for unwanted players across the summer.
Danny Ings (£20m), Simon Mignolet (£8m), Ryan Kent £7.5m), Rafa Camacho £7m, Ovie Ejaria (£3.5m), George Johnston (£300k) and Bobby Duncan (£1.8m) who left the club earlier this week to join Fiorentina.
On top of those funds, Liverpool also brought over £5m in loan fees for players like Harry Wilson (£2.5m), Marko Grujic (£2m) and Taiwo Awoniyi (£600k).
It again points to the impressive negotiating acumen of sporting director Michael Edwards, who helped raise the sum by offloading players whose departures haven't weakened Liverpool.
However, a hidden figure the Reds are also saving is based on the wages of the players who left during the summer months.
According to a report from The Mirror in March this year, Liverpool's wage bill for the 2018/19 campaign totaled £163million, but that figure is likely to be significantly reduced due to their dealings across the window.
Daniel Sturridge reportedly earned around £150,000 a week on the incentivised contract he signed for Liverpool in October 2014. His exit frees up the wage bill to utilised elsewhere if and when the Reds return to the transfer market next year.
Simon Mignolet is another whose move to pastures new has helped bolster the bottom line, with the Belgian no longer earning the reported £60,000 he was paid at Anfield.
And Alberto Moreno is another whose first-team status was reflected in his wage packed. The left-back was said to have earned around £40,000 every week during his five years on Merseyside.
That means that Liverpool are saving around £1m a month on the wages they are no longer having to pay out to Moreno, Mignolet and Sturridge.
That figure equates to Liverpool making a save of £12m for three players who made a combined 14 starts in all competitions last term.
Add that to the money Liverpool are no longer having to pay out to their players out on loan and the Reds - and, more specifically, Edwards - appear to have once more acted shrewdly in a market where eye-watering sums are banded about from all angles of the top flight.
