🚨💣 BREAKING: Alexander Isak to Liverpool, here we go! Deal agreed now for £130m transfer fee. Record move for Premier League.
Isak, on his way today for medical tests as new Liverpool player after long term deal agreed months ago.
It was always ONLY Liverpool for Isak.
🚨 Negotiations over deal for Alexander Isak to seal Liverpool move now centre on Newcastle United expectation of fee around £130m. Original #NUFC aim was ~£150, #LFC ~£120m & 1st bid came at £110m. Nearing compromise for 25yo to make switch @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/aBTJXObNrt
Michael Edwards on the decision to retire Diogo Jota’s number 20:
As a club, we were all acutely aware of the sentiment of our supporters – and we felt exactly the same way.
It was vitally important to us to involve Diogo’s wife, Rute, and his family in the decision and to ensure they were the first to know of our intention.
I believe this is the first time in Liverpool Football Club’s history that such an honour has been bestowed upon an individual. Therefore, we can say this is a unique tribute to a uniquely wonderful person.
By retiring this squad number, we are making it eternal – and therefore never to be forgotten.
Diogo joined us in 2020, he won us number 20, and he wore – with honour, distinction and affection – the number 20.
As far as Liverpool Football Club is concerned, he will be forever our number 20.
🚨🇳🇱 Arne Slot on the death of Diogo Jota: "What to say? What can anyone say at a time like this when the shock and the pain is so incredibly raw? I wish I had the words but I know I do not.
All I have are feelings that I know so many people will share about a person and a player we loved dearly and a family we care so much about.
My first thoughts are not those of a football manager. They are of a father, a son, a brother and an uncle and they belong to the family of Diogo and Andre Silva who have experienced such an unimaginable loss.
My message to them is very clear – you will never walk alone. The players, the staff, the supporters of Liverpool Football Club are all with you and from what I have seen today, the same can be said of the wider family of football.
This is not solely a response to tragedy. It is also a reaction to the goodness of the people involved and the respect that so many have for the boys as individuals and for the family as a whole.
For us as a club, the sense of shock is absolute. Diogo was not just our player. He was a loved one to all of us. He was a teammate, a colleague, a workmate and in all of those roles he was very special.
I could say so much about what he brought to our team but the truth is everyone who watched Diogo play could see it. Hard work, desire, commitment, great quality, goals. The essence of what a Liverpool player should be.
There were also the parts that not everyone got to see. The person who never sought popularity but found it anyway. Not a friend to two people, a friend to everyone. Someone who made others feel good about themselves just by being with them. A person who cared deeply for his family.
The last time we spoke, I congratulated Diogo on winning the Nations League and wished him luck for his forthcoming wedding. In many ways, it was a dream summer for Diogo and his family, which makes it all the more heartbreaking that it should end like this.
When I first came to the club, one of the first songs I got to know was the one that our fans sing for Diogo. I had not worked with him previously but I knew straight away that if the Liverpool supporters, who have seen so many great players over the years, had such a unique chant for Diogo, he must have special qualities.
That we have lost those qualities in such terrible circumstances is something we have not yet come to terms with. For this reason, we need everyone at the club to stand together and to be there for one another. We owe this to Diogo, to Andre Silva, to their wider family and to ourselves.
My condolences go to Diogo’s wife, Rute, their three beautiful children and to the parents of Diogo and Andre Silva.
When the time is right, we will celebrate Diogo Jota, we will remember his goals and we will sing his song. For the time being, we will remember him as a unique human being and mourn his loss. He will never be forgotten.
His name is Diogo."
Cynics having a go at Mo Salah's Google Pixel selfie celebration are forgetting Roy Keane celebrating United's 2001 title win by dancing to the polyphonic ringtone on a Nokia3310
Not the best option but I’m not against it. Some people might be concerned about his age and how he struggled last time in the Premier League but I can’t see how he’d be any worse than Yves Bissouma
Since Coote: Southampton pen for foul outside the box, Enciso GBH on Endo, Tarkowski trying to decapitate Mac, JWP handball in the box, Hall winning a FK for pulling Salah down in the box.
Only difference is we still win in spite of bad decisions, so you don't hear about them.
Roy Keane said on the overlap that Liverpool were humble in defeat vs PSG and now have high class problems, cup final on Sunday and closing in the PL title. He's spot on
Every team in England would love to be in our position