If January is a month for restraint and cutting back, football begins each year dutifully following the memo. Another transfer window might have opened across Europe but, in stark contrast to the lavishness of summer, spending will be mostly reluctant and circumspect.

The winter transfer window is open, and shutting later than usual this year, at 11pm on February 3. Many of Yorkshire clubs have already dipped their toes into the market with ingoings and outgoings.

Liverpool will look to maintain their quest for an unprecedented quadruple on Saturday, as they get their FA Cup campaign underway at Anfield against fourth-tier outfit Accrington Stanley. Currently sitting pretty at the top of the English Premier League and still very much in contention in both the UEFA Champions League and EFL Cup,

Liverpool haven’t had the best results in their past two matches in the previous few days— a loss to Tottenham in the first leg of the League Cup semifinal and a draw to Manchester United at home in the Premier League.