So many brilliant stories about Divock Origi but this testimony from James Milner remains one of the greatest. The stuff about him getting the ball out of the back of the net against Everton is just brilliant.
I like this from Iraola.
Andoni Iraola:
“At the end, we have to thank everyone we have met in our careers. I have had very good coaches and I have tried to take everything from the ones I especially liked, or some exercises or ideas in different phases of the game. I think you learn from every coach. I'm very thankful. I sometimes have the chance to tell them personally.
“We are what we absorb, and as a player I think you have to absorb everything you can from everyone. And even now that we are coaches, I use every chance we have when sometimes coaches come to see training – to get new things, to learn new things, because football evolves, it doesn't stop. And if you stop, you become worse! So, you have to continue evolving! I think it's one of our challenges!”
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.
🚨 Andy Robertson:
“Look, I think it has been well-documented, especially over the last year or so, I’ve had opportunities to leave and I’ve not taken them because of how difficult it is to leave this club. And I wouldn’t change that for the world.
“But I know football moves on, I know teams move on and I think now is the time for me to move on and go wherever my next move is and wherever my career takes me. I’ll always look back on amazing memories at this football club, I’ve put my heart and soul into the club for nine years and I’ve not got many regrets. I’ve grown as a man and as a person. This club will always mean the world to me, the fans will mean the world to me. It has been a hell of a journey.”