There cannot be much that Liverpool - with Mo Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane in their attack - could envy or resent in any way. But it arrives at Anfield tonight in the form of Raheem Sterling - the player they lost to Manchester City four years ago.
It was all about money then. It is about finesse and goals now.
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