How concerned should Liverpool be after another pre-season collapse?

How much does pre-season mean? It depends who you ask. Fans itching for the return of football after a summer forced into other past-times are left yearning to see new players in action and the tangible feel of momentum building ahead of the new season. But at Anfield, that pre-season buzz has come to a crunching halt both on and off the pitch. There is no empirical formula to the importance of pre-season results. Take last summer when Arsenal were beaten by Thomas Frank's Tottenham in Hong Kong and lost at home to Villarreal in their penultimate friendly.Within nine months, Frank was out of a job and they were crowned Premier League champions and were a penalty shoot-out away from winning the Champions League. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos nears deal to buy stake in LiverpoolLiverpool sign Ro