With Fenway Sports Group preparing to end their 12-year association with Liverpool, discussion of the legacy they will leave has been rife.
The American consortium can point to a twice-expanded Anfield, seven different trophies, and a world-class manager in Jurgen Klopp as evidence that they will leave a positive mark on the club.
But what of the players they have brought in during their time in charge?
Here, we take a look at the 10 best signings completed on FSG's watch.
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10. Luis Suarez
- Signed from: Ajax for £22m
- Years at Liverpool: 2011-2014
- Trophies with Liverpool: League Cup
FSG's first transfer window at Liverpool saw them bring arguably the most talented player they have ever signed to the club with the money gained from the sale of Fernando Torres to Chelsea.
Although impressive, Suarez's tally of 82 goals in 133 appearances doesn't quite capture the genius of his performances, or his role in dragging a poor Reds team to greater heights than it might have reached.
However, that he does not feature higher on this list is down to a paltry return in silverware terms, his involvement in a damaging racism scandal, and a tendency to bite opposing players.
9. Fabinho
- Signed from: Monaco for £39m
- Years at Liverpool: 2018-present
- Trophies with Liverpool: Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup, Community Shield
Less than 24 hours after Liverpool's midfield had been dominated en route to defeat to Real Madrid in the Champions League final, news of Fabinho's imminent signing broke.
And the Brazilian went on to prove that he was exactly what Jurgen Klopp's side had been missing the following season as they went on to secure Europe's biggest prize.
He has been at the heart of every success since, a fact that has seen him described as the team's "lighthouse" by assistant coach Pepijn Lijnders.
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8. James Milner
- Signed from: Manchester City for free
- Years at Liverpool: 2015-present
- Trophies with Liverpool: Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup, Community Shield
Milner appeared to be taking a backward step in terms of ambition simply to play in his preferred central midfield role when he swapped Manchester City for Liverpool in the summer of 2015.
But he surely won't mind having played in every single position bar goalkeeper since moving to Anfield given that he has also collected every single trophy available - including the Champions League that still eludes City.
That unrivalled versatility is also matched up with an inimitable dressing room presence, which is why Milner was deemed worthy of a new contract this summer despite his 37th birthday closing in.
7. Andy Robertson
- Signed from: Hull City for £8m
- Years at Liverpool: 2017-present
- Trophies with Liverpool: Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup, Community Shield
No player better evidences the virtues of FSG's 'Moneyball' approach to transfers than Robertson.
Signed from relegated Hull City for just £8m, only Liverpool's recruitment team could have seen this Celtic academy reject eventually turning into one of the best left-backs in the world.
But that is exactly what happened, and the Scotland captain is showing no signs of slowing down just yet.
6. Jordan Henderson
- Signed from: Sunderland for £20m
- Years at Liverpool: 2011-present
- Trophies with Liverpool: Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup (x2), UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup, Community Shield
That Henderson's Liverpool career took a while to get going is perhaps best summed up by the fact that, just a year on from signing, he was offered to Fulham in a part-exchange deal that would have seen Clint Demspey come the other way.
Fortunately for the Reds, their future captain turned down that move, setting in motion a series of events that would lead to him lifting every major trophy available to the skipper of an English club.
He remains a key figure for Liverpool and, with a contract running until 2025, should have plenty more opportunities to lift silverware.
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— Jude Bellingham (@BellinghamJude) December 4, 2022
5. Roberto Firmino
- Signed from: Hoffenheim for £29m
- Years at Liverpool: 2015-present
- Trophies with Liverpool: Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup, Community Shield
The discord between Liverpool's data-driven recruitment team and erstwhile manager Brendan Rodgers was underlined by a summer in which the former pushed to sign Firmino while the latter wanted Christian Benteke.
But there is no doubt who won that argument in the long term, with the Reds' brilliant Brazilian ultimately emerging as the cornerstone of Klopp's gegenpress and every success since.
That he has done it while working his socks off and always wearing a trademark toothy grin has only served to cement his legend among supporters.
4. Sadio Mane
- Signed from: Southampton for £34m
- Years at Liverpool: 2016-2022
- Trophies with Liverpool: Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup, Community Shield
The first major signing of the Klopp era, Mane was there for every step of Liverpool's journey from top-four hopefuls to Premier League and Champions League winners.
The Senegalese's career followed much the same trajectory, too, as he went from promising but raw winger to complete, world-class forward along the way.
The Reds' poor start to this season might not be all down to losing Mane to Bayern Munich over the summer, but there isn't a team in the world that wouldn't miss him.
3. Virgil van Dijk
- Signed from: Southampton for £75m
- Years at Liverpool: 2018-present
- Trophies with Liverpool: Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup, Community Shield
It was regularly said that Liverpool's early defensive problems under Klopp ran so deep that a single signing could not fix them.
And then Van Dijk arrived at Anfield, transforming a once-porous backline into one of the best in European football to make his eye-watering £75m fee look like a snip.
Not just one of the best centre-halves the sport has ever seen but also a player capable of taking those around him to the next level, which he has done consistently since joining the Reds.
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2. Alisson Becker
- Signed from: Roma for £67m
- Years at Liverpool: 2018-present
- Trophies with Liverpool: Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup, Community Shield
As Liverpool searched for a solution to their long-standing goalkeeping problem after a disastrous Loris Karius showing in the Champions League final, it seemed curious that they might plump for a man who had recently conceded seven times to them across 180 minutes.
But the club's recruitment staff knew Alisson was so much better than he had shown across the two legs of a one-sided European clash with Roma that season.
The Brazilian has since proven them right in emerging as the world's best goalkeeper, his brilliance in shot-stopping, distribution, and command of an entire half marking him out as the perfect example of how to play his position in the modern era.
Oh, and he has even scored a last-minute winner, too.
1. Mohamed Salah
- Signed from: AS Roma for £34m
- Years at Liverpool: 2017-present
- Trophies with Liverpool: Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup, Community Shield
Eyebrows were raised when Liverpool decided to hand Salah a second crack at English football after he had turned them down only to flop at Chelsea four years earlier.
But to say that he has since proven the doubters wrong would be an exercise in testing the limits of understatement.
As well as collecting every major trophy, the Egyptian has scored a ludicrous 170 goals in 275 appearances, and at various times flirted with the status of 'best player on the planet'.
He is the record goalscorer in a single Premier League season, sits eighth on Liverpool's all-time list, and is likely to have climbed much higher by the time he reaches the end of a recently penned contract that expires in 2025.
Not bad for a Chelsea reject.