Jurgen Klopp is close to clinching a club record £85 million deal for striker Darwin Nunez – but his best deal this summer would be for Mo Salah to sign a new contract.
If Liverpool unleash a front three of Nunez, Salah and Luis Diaz next season, they are going to take some stopping.
That's a front line to take your breath away and give Premier League defenders sleepless nights.
With Diogo Jota and Roberto Firmino in reserve, Klopp will have a super-strong hand to play – even if Nunez is earmarked as a possible replacement for Sadio Mane, who has been linked with Bayern Munich.
Champion teams always refresh and rebuild their squads from a position of strength without waiting for decay to set in, and yet again Klopp appears to be getting his recruitment spot-on.
But after Salah was voted Player of the Year by his peers in the PFA vote, Klopp's best piece of business would arguably be to keep the Egyptian king at Anfield on a new contract beyond next season.
And although every team has a natural shelf life, and there comes a point where the manager has to press the 'refresh' button, I cannot believe Liverpool are prepared to lose Mane and Salah in the same window.
Klopp will be mindful that Mane is 30, and Salah reaches the same birthday next week, and the Kop has seen seamless regeneration on the front line before.
In the space of 15 years in the 1970s and 1980s, Liverpool went from Keegan and Toshack to Rush and Dalglish and then Barnes, Beardsley and Aldridge.
The cycle of change did not stop them dominating English football, but there is an art to refreshing your squad to keep them at the top, and making big changes before a team has come to the end of its time.
I am convinced Klopp knows what's left in his forwards' tank – and he must not lose sight of the need to strengthen Liverpool's midfield.
In the Champions League final, I thought Jordan Henderson, Fabinho and Thiago – who have all made wonderful contributions to Klopp's success at Anfield - looked a bit weary.
And you could argue that, in a match-up with champions Manchester City's best midfield trio, Kevin de Bruyne, Bernardo Silva and Rodri are slightly more mobile and incisive as a unit.
But the best 'signing' of all would have to be keeping Salah beyond the last year of his contract.
If Liverpool can make it worth his while to stay, and shake hands on an upgraded deal, it would be the golden handshake for the man whose 31 goals in all competitions won him the Golden Boot.
Ronaldo notion put to bed
Cristiano Ronaldo's inclusion in the PFA Team of the Year is an invincible seal of approval from his peers.
And surely it puts to bed, once and for all, the ridiculous notion that he was the problem in Manchester United's worst-ever Premier League points harvest.
Without his 24 goals, the landscape at Old Trafford last season would have been terribly bleak.
To make the PFA's front three along with Mo Salah and Sadio Mane at the age of 37, Ronaldo must have been doing something right to earn the respect of his fellow professionals.
And to get in that dream team ahead of Heung-min Son and Harry Kane, who were both fantastic for Tottenham, shows his enduring quality.
Pundits and onlookers who singled out Ronaldo as a divisive influence at Old Trafford are entitled to their opinions, even if they may have their own agendas.
But the PFA's recognition says it all for me. Manchester United's season was bad enough as it was – but without Ronaldo, it would have been a dead loss.
Ukraine continue to do their nation proud
Imagine the desolation of Ukraine's dressing room after the heartbreak of their narrow World Cup play-off defeat by Wales.
And imagine summoning the willpower to go over to Dublin and win 1-0 in the Nations League just 72 hours later.
We are all appalled by the tragic bulletins from Ukraine, and the devastation of their homeland amid the Russian invasion, every night on our TV screens.
But their national team continues to do their flag, and their people, proud.
Sooner or later, I hope we can celebrate with them when peace and liberty are restored to their sovereign nation.
Player burnout continues
A year ago this weekend, Wales began their Euro 2020 campaign with a 1-1 draw against Switzerland in faraway Azerbaijan.
Since they were eliminated in the last 16 by Denmark, those players have had two, maybe three, weeks off in the last 21 months.
Yet here we are in mid-June, with Premier League clubs' pre-season programmes only a fortnight or so away, and they are still playing football in the Nations League.
Wales have made history by reaching their first World Cup in 64 years. It would be awful if any of them missed the biggest tournament of their lives because they were burned out or injured because they were running on empty.
For heaven's sake, stop flogging the players and give them a rest.
Rejecting Macclesfield open-top bus tour
After the record-breaking rebirth of Macclesfield FC, we have been offered an open-top bus tour around the town by the council – three months after we won the title.
If such a generous gesture had been made available in the week after we lifted the trophy in front of 4,600 fans at the Leasing.com Stadium, I'm sure we would have accepted it accordingly.
But the squad already has a very different look as we plan for the next campaign, so it wouldn't be right to go on a celebration bus tour in pre-season when half the players on the top deck were not involved in our success of 2021-22.
Open-top bus parades have to catch the wave – I'm afraid we surfed it a long time ago, and respectfully we have had to decline the offer.
Cheshire East council have been magnificent in their support of the club, but open-top bus parades have to catch the wave – I'm afraid we surfed it a long time ago, and respectfully we have had to decline their kind offer.
Me? Rejecting publicity for Macclesfield FC? Who would have thought it...
Have a great summer.
