LIVERPOOL’s 2019-20 champions cost the club around half a billion pounds in transfer fees, less than the amount paid to assemble Manchester City’s team in 2018-19, but still making the reds the second most expensive side to win the Premier League. Long gone are the days when clubs developed talent for their first teams – the romantic notion that a modern day “Busby Babes” can be created is misguided. When Manchester United won the league in 1957, almost all of their principal squad was brought through their famed youth system. Even as recently as the early 1990s, United could point to their youngsters being the backbone of their team. It’s no longer possible. Liverpool and Manchester City have set a new benchmark in terms…