🚨💣 BREAKING: Liverpool reach agreement in principle to appoint Andoni Iraola as new manager, here we go! 🔴🫱🏻🫲🏼
Exclusive story from Saturday, 100% confirmed: Arne Slot left and Iraola will lead #LFC project, as expected.
Talks advanced over last 48h and deal in place.
@mufcaway_@DobriManZ He finished 14 places above you in his first season and ye were happy to keep the manager and then he achieved the same thing as ye second season 😂 different standards
Bayer Leverkusen received the definitive call in recent hours from Iñaki Ibáñez, head of IDUB Global, and Andoni Iraola himself, informing them that despite positive discussions and a strong presentation of the club’s project, he will not be accepting the position. Instead, Iraola has decided that his next destination will be Liverpool Football Club, England’s most storied and illustrious football institution.
It’s worth noting that, contrary to widespread speculation, Sebastian Hoeneß was never contacted by Liverpool at any stage, not in recent months, weeks, days, or hours. Liverpool’s chosen successor has long been Andoni Iraola, with Richard Hughes quietly working on the operation behind the scenes for months, keeping the dialogue alive while much of the public narrative pointed elsewhere, and those efforts have now reached their conclusion.
🚨 EXCL: Arne Slot says goodbye to Liverpool fans.
“It’s been an amazing ride together with Liverpool, I am so grateful that we were able to win the league last season”. ❤️
Thank you Anfield for this incredible first year. Thank you for the love and support throughout the season, just like you’re still showing me today… I can’t wait to be back among y’all
A special and heartfelt thought for my partner the legend himself @MohamedSalah Thank you for the all good advices, you are the example to follow here.
Wishing the best to my guy Andrew Robertson, your character will be missed ❤️…
Liverpool FC is top of the table, but not of a league to be proud of.
A 4-2 pasting at the hands of Aston Villa on Friday night affirmed the Reds’ mediocre season on the pitch. But, according to campaigners, Liverpool is number one in complicity in the Gaza genocide.
War on Want have published a league table of Premier League clubs’ ties to Israeli actions in Palestine.
Liverpool are ahead of north London rivals Arsenal and Spurs in joint second place.
Man United and Man City are tied in third place while the fourth spot is shared by Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton and Fulham.
The league table is part of a report entitled Red Card: English Premier League Complicity in Israel’s Atrocities Against the Palestinians. The report says at least 15 Premier League sponsors have connections to the military assault on Gaza, the construction of illegal settlements and the wider system of apartheid.
Liverpool’s shirt sponsor, Standard Chartered, provided $15.4bn (£11.5bn) to 24 complicit businesses between January and August 2025.
The Premier League itself is sponsored by Barclays bank, which the report says has provided billions to 49 complicit companies.
Neil Sammonds, senior campaigner on Palestine at War on Want, said: “These clubs speak proudly about equality, inclusion and community. Yet behind the branding, some are using ‘sportswashing’ to sanitise corporations connected to some of the gravest crimes and humanitarian catastrophes of our time.
“Palestinian footballers are being killed. Stadiums are turned into detention camps. Child players are buried beneath rubble.
“The Premier League has shown before that it can act when sponsorship becomes morally toxic. The question is why Palestinian lives appear to count for less.”
🚨 Pep Guardiola to leave position as Manchester City manager at end of this season. 55yo Spaniard departing after trophy-laden decade & set to be replaced by Enzo Maresca. No official confirmation yet from #MCFC. W/ @SamLee@TheAthleticFC after @MailSport https://t.co/FMjZXxfuPq
I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.
Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it.
Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games.
Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on.
As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.