The final round of the Premier League left Liverpool with no championship and no chance of winning a historic quadruple, but mostly left it hanging in the most cruel place on the season-ending pendulum.
It's a philosophical matter, but now one game - the Champions League final against Real Madrid on Saturday - will finally decide where the scoop tends in the case of the Reds.
Is it for a huge season that will be remembered thanks to big titles, or maybe for a big season with small titles.
And does it even matter?
Is football really only measured by the bottom line - in this case titles, or does depth, quality, memory matter?
After all, even now, the memory Liverpool have left of this season is for generations.
Jürgen Klopp's team won the two local trophies for the first time since 2001, broke records of conquests and thrills, and managed to stay in the competition for the title in each of the factories in which it participated.
It narrowed the English league gap by 14 points from one of the best teams in history, collected 51 of 57 points in the second half of the season, and actually fought for the title until the final 10 minutes of the season.
Liverpool players.
Head deep on Saturday, Photo: EPA
And yet, the feeling is that the tangible award does not match the quality it demonstrated.
With all due respect to the English Cup and the League Cup, both of which they won after a penalty shootout against Chelsea, the feeling is that this Liverpool deserves something bigger.
For a seal, for a moment, for a stamp.
Right now, the Reds' season is mostly an amazing time.
A sequence of impressive games, a routine of abnormal quality, but devoid of real picks.
She may have defeated and humiliated Manchester United in two meetings, but that turns out to be no real wisdom.
Klopp's team ended the season without a win over the top 4 teams, and without a constitutive display in the Champions League.
Salah, wants the most important trophy, Photo: Reuters
Therefore, the final in Paris against Real Madrid is the last chance for Klopp and his players to evade the philosophical questions that carry the Dutch teams of 1974, Hungary of 1954 and Brazil of 1982 - amazing teams, a consensus of quality, but also those left empty and with too many compliments.
Johann Cruyff, in his autobiographical book MY TURN, described the feelings after the defeat against the Germans: "I did not suffer the loss at all. It stems from the global admiration for our game."
There is no doubt that Liverpool have pulsed this season, but it is not certain that the excitement from football, and two local trophies, will satisfy it at the end of the season.
Klopp.
His Liverpool still has a chance to celebrate, Photo: EPI
Three years ago, winning the Champions League was an adequate compensation for Liverpool for an equally heroic championship fight, which ended empty-handed, and that is the goal this time as well.
While it may be harder when the rival is Real Madrid, who ousted the European Lions, not Tottenham, and even harder when the red players fall like flies in recent days, but Liverpool owe that title.
For herself, and for the sake of philosophy.
It may be nice to leave a memory, but much nicer to put a European Cup in the closet.
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