Liverpool's efforts in the transfer market so far this summer have got to be applauded.
First they found a talented left-back to support Andy Robertson in the form of Kostas Tsimikas - and it certainly wouldn't have been an easy task to convince a first-team regular to come and play second fiddle.
Then came Thiago Alcantara, a world-class midfield signing from Bayern Munich to bolster the engine room, before Diogo Jota was brought in as a highly-rated talent to back up the revered front three.
Of course, another centre-back might not go amiss but the Reds are still covered and they have done all that when it would have easy to rest on their laurels as a dominant force in English football and a European powerhouse, having just been crowned Premier League champions last term by some distance in the season after they claimed the Champions League.
They have strengthened, it seems, in all the right areas to go again and despite the clamour this summer for more and more transfers - assistant manager Pep Lijnders has explained why Liverpool did not go and pursue any new players at either right midfield or at right-back.
The Dutch coach was explaining how talented young players make the final steps into the first-team after making their way through the Academy into first-team training before being included in Jurgen Klopp's squad.
"Step by step," he said in response to being asked how the process happens.
"Focusing on the small things and creating space in the squad.
“Nobody thought Trent Alexander-Arnold would have been in this position 3 or 4 years ago, as the most talented player in English football as a right defender.
“But we trust the young players in good periods and bad periods, we know exactly what we can expect from every single one of them. In the difficult times we show faith and give chances again and that’s what happens when you commit to our team and our staff.
“We won't give up on players easily but the most important thing is to create space in the squad.
"Instead of buying a second right defender, it's Neco Williams. Instead of buying a new right midfielder, it's Curtis Jones.
“If you are in the squad you'll get game time and develop.”
The pathway from Liverpool's Academy into the first-team is not an easy one, due to the world-class standard among Klopp's ranks.
However, certain players like Alexander-Arnold have proved the journey more than possible with the likes of Jones and Williams also coming through.
Lijnders hailed the talented young players coming through and explained how impressive they are even in training compared to the youth ranks at Porto where he spent eight years as an assistant before moving to Liverpool in 2014.
"It is a compliment to our Academy and all the staff who work there," he said.
"A compliment for the recruitment in the Academy when they take all these Scouse boys but also talent from around to our club and a big compliment to the players themselves, the boys in the Academy have a big heart.
“It’s unbelievable, when I came from Porto to Liverpool, they have the quality to make each training session like a final.
“It was something that was good in Portugal but at Liverpool it was unbelievable.
“If you want to bring young players through, the most important thing is hope.
"You can coach really well and you can do everything right but if the first-team staff don’t create hope for the players inside the Academy then it becomes really difficult.
"If you see somebody who made it - say Trent or Curtis - it gives an indirect influence for all the young players in the Academy because they see the pathway.
“Then it is important that we as first-team staff give them trust, to get them early with us when they are 16, 17 or 18 and they feel like proper talents training with us.
"Making sure they learn so that the style of play is not new, the relationship is there between the Academy and the first-team so that they don’t have to play in a different way and everything feels natural already.
“All these small things help the young players to establish themselves in the squad.
“Most important thing is Jurgen [Klopp] who gives this hope and trust to the young players. That relationship is key as we saw in terms of development.”
