I agree with everything you said, but that doesn’t answer the point, if the intention was to transition to 433 why spend a year playing the diamond? And it still goes back to the point of the £100m earmarked for Lo Celso and Dybala would have been better spend on other areas of the squad, a RB, a DM, a new CB knowing full well Alderweireld is off.
Well tomato/tomato i suppose - 433 isn't only how Liverpool set it up and as previously stated a double pivot in central midfield of Ndombele and Sissoko, anchored by Winks with a three man attack of Kane Son and Lamela/Eriksen is a variant of it.
I've already explained what i make of the Lo Celso transfer tbh but to expand i believe it has been the collapse of our engine room that has been the biggest contributor to our downturn in football these past 18 months or so - gone was our strength in the middle of the pitch, our protection of the back four and the base from which our attacks were built and im very nuch of the opinion that signing 2 players to strengthen this area of the pitch in the summer was the best place to start the rebuild.