Top bracket players aren’t really attracted to Liverpool nor can Liverpool afford them. Liverpool have to buy up-and-coming internationals in their early to mid 20s and make them world-beaters, which they have been doing.
Maybe Gakpo will be, maybe not.
But even Salah was derided as ‘dogshit’ by some of our fans (and Smallman no doubt) and signed from Roma for 35 million or something. Firmino was from Hoffenheim. Mane from Southampton, just pulled the trigger before others.