In one clip he would be bursting beyond a rival and delivering an incisive pass for a team-mate and, in another, adding momentum to an attack by cleverly switching the play.

There was footage of opposition raids being broken up with metronomic regularity and moments where the tempo was set simply by a trick which allowed possession to be kept.

The YouTube compilations of Naby Keïta’s best bits for RB Leipzig sustained Liverpool supporters during much of last season as anticipation of the midfielder’s looming arrival grew by the week, even while Jürgen Klopp’s side were blazing a trail in Europe.

The expectation was the £53 million midfielder would add a fresh dimension and watching Liverpool stutter against Red Star Belgrade on Tuesday signposted how