Liverpool are assessing what to do next in the transfer market after missing out on their top target. The Reds have been slow to get going in the summer window this year and are running the risk of failing to make a first-team signing. While the Liverpool squad is in a good place, that would be a clear failure from the Reds recruitment team and would leave Arne Slot with work to do right from the off. Had their pursuit of Martin Zubimendi come off, things would have been markedly different. Liverpool believed that Zubimendi had given his word that he was coming to Anfield. But as the fallout c…