Arne Slot can complete first Liverpool transfer imminently amid Rodrygo and Jeremie Frimpong links

Compared to some of their rivals, Liverpool have had a quiet summer so far. Although the Reds have announced a new manager - something everyone knew was coming since before the end of the Premier League season - there has been a relative lack of drama. On the whole that is a good thing.

Manchester United have been linked with everyone from head coaches to new physios with the odd expensive transfer scattered in the middle. Arsenal and Manchester City, the two top dogs that Liverpool are aiming to chase down and compete with in the post-Jurgen Klopp world, have also been out of the headlines so far.

Chelsea have also appointed a head coach after the mutual departure with Mauricio Pochettino. They have also signed a new player though and are much more public with the work being done.

So for Liverpool the work to be done will go on over the two major international tournaments. Contract decisions will be made in the final 12 months for Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk, any new arrivals will be done with the backdrop of Euro 2024 or the Copa America.

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This is the challenge set by competitions over the summer and for Arne Slot is leaves plenty to ponder. The lucky thing is that soon enough real progress can be made.

On June 14 the transfer window flies open and the real business can begin. Agreements will not have to wait 'until the end of the month' or 'until the market is officially active .' Liverpool can get down to action.

It means that imminently things will begin to ramp up. Talk of exits for Jeremie Frimpong - who Liverpool have been mentioned as one of the sides interested in signing the Bayer Leverkusen defender - and Federico Chiesa will carry some actual weight. The flirting stage will be over and deals can finally be done.

It paves the way for two-and-a-half months of drama. Until August 30 at 11pm - and then a little longer with deadline day deal sheets and the sort - there will be likely carnage across Europe.

What will this 10 weeks hold for Liverpool? There are questions over the futures of Darwin Nunez, Mohamed Salah, Luis Diaz, and even Alisson himself. Slot will be able to have his first impressions on the squad and on new signings, whilst a fresh hierarchy will take their initial steps together at the top of it all.

Very little really changes when June 13 becomes June 14, even in the eyes of the most ardent football fans, but everything changes. The buzz around deals, the talk of what every micro-action means. Messages are sent, stances are taken, decisions are made.

Be it Waldemar Anton, Anthony Gordon (yes, even he has been linked with a move to his boyhood club, Maximilian Beier, Ederson of Atalanta, or Goncalo Inacio, there will be heightened focus on every player mentioned in the same breath of Liverpool.

So yes, it's about to get crazy for Liverpool and Slot. There are Rodrygo reports, Matthijs de Ligt suggestions, and of course Florian Wirtz.