BR: System changes, our style does not
However his personnel or starting formation alters for each game, Brendan Rodgers remains steadfast in his commitment to the style that earned Liverpool second place last season.
The Reds played perhaps the most attractive football in the country throughout 2013-14, with a team created to terrify opponents with blistering pace, quick passing and seamless transitions.
Daniel Sturridge and Luis Suarez were the goalscoring spearheads of a set-up which brought the finest displays out of Philippe Coutinho, Jordan Henderson and Raheem Sterling in behind.
Rodgers experimented with a range of systems as and when necessary - from 4-3-3 to 3-5-2 to a diamond, and others - to ensure his team were prepared to the optimum level for each game.
"The style has evolved from the first day I came in, and it's continuing," he told Liverpoolfc.com in his review of the campaign.
"We can make passes; if we sit deep, we can play on the counter-attack; we can sit on a low block or we can press high.
"There's a real flexibility now and it's a huge credit to the players that we can now flip from formation to formation. The style doesn't change, but the system does."
When the Northern Irishman was appointed Liverpool manager in June 2012, column inches were packed with analysis and discussion of his personal preference for a possession game.
More recently, the observations have suggested that Rodgers has adapted his vision to a counter-attacking style, less focused on the importance of retaining the ball.
He countered: "What has been interesting is people talking about me moving away from some of the principles and ideas that I've always worked with. It couldn't be further from the truth.
"What we have shown is that we are now better equipped; we can have a variety in our game. Our idea is always to dominate the ball, to control the game.
"Sometimes you can control the game without the ball. People maybe look at our possession stats...I look at dangerous possession - that's what I focus on.
"When you're up in a game - in a lot of the games this season, by half-time or the first 60 minutes, we were winning games - the natural consequence of that is you have a drop-off in possession.
"That's every team, not just Liverpool. Every team loses their percentage by up to eight per cent in relation to possession when you're in front in a game.
"As time has gone on, we've added penetration - it's much better. We're much quicker with our passing, the speed of our game is better and obviously we've got quality at the top end of the field.
"Players are now flooding forward looking to score goals, as opposed to the idea of just keeping the ball - because that's no good on its own."