Liverpool endured a very quiet transfer deadline day, failing to add to their existing incoming business. The Reds signed just two players during this summer, with one of those not arriving for another year at least. That they didn’t bring in any more was not for a lack of trying, of course. Liverpool thought they had secured Martin Zubimendi, but the Spaniard went back on his word to stay at Real Sociedad. Failure to land Zubimendi had some faint echoes of a previous time Liverpool tried to sign a midfielder from his boyhood club. Rewind six years and one of the most infamous episodes in the …