Liverpool pre-season matches was not very encouraging at all, partly I will attribute their lacklustre performance in those matches to lack of an experience defensive midfielder in the team the duo of Henderson and Fabinho who used to play those role had left the club to Saudi Arabian league consequently Liverpool would really struggle in that position, though McAllister had been signed to play that role is he going to deliver? time will tell when the league start and from their last match against Bayern Munich it looks like McAllister is injured having limped off when he was substituted either of Fabinho or Henderson should have been retained by Kloop unfortunately they were all sold out.
Even right now we are in pre-season stages but look like Liverpool is not learned from their previous mistakes and allow few good players without any suitable replacements even I read they are in talk about few players but still they are doing few things quickly without any cover which can hurt them again in coming season just like they have done with Sadio Mané and face trouble throughout season and lost their spot as well.
Now allowing Fabinho and Henderson without any quality replacement surely going to hurt them badly as McAllister is also not fully fit, and they are doing poor in early matches as well, hopefully we will have few quality players in middle of the squad which will help them for having better performance in the coming season.