Layak ke Divisi 1 dan tugasan besar untuk tidak tersingkir lagi.
Pak Mat berjaya mendapat Geertruida untuk dijadikan back up kepada Kante yang kian dimamah waktu.
Kapten pasukan Sergio Ramos bersama, Maria Gotze terpaksa dijual kerana ingin mencuba bidang kejurulatihan.
By 2018, Dejan Lovren had lost 4 finals in a row:
Capital One Cup Final, Europa League Final, Champions League Final and the World Cup Final.
But he didn't give up and then won:
Champions League (2019) with Liverpool
Premier League (2020) with Liverpool
UEFA Super Cup (2019) with Liverpool
Club World Cup (2019) with Liverpool
Russian Premier League x3 (2021, 2022, 2023) with Zenit
Russian Super Cup x3 with Zenit
Never give up.
Juninho itu bukan sekadar spesialis free kick. Dia adalah titik balik sejarah Lyon.
Sebelum Juninho datang, Lyon belum pernah juara Ligue 1.
Setelah dia datang, Lyon berubah jadi mesin dominasi Prancis: 7 gelar liga beruntun.
343 pertandingan.
99 gol.
77 assist.
14 trofi.
Dan yang paling gila: setelah Juninho pergi, Lyon belum pernah juara Ligue 1 lagi.
Ini bukan cuma pemain bagus.
Ini pemain yang mengubah identitas klub.
Kalau di Football Manager, Juninho itu tipe signing yang langsung bikin save berubah arah.
Bukan cuma naik rating tim, tapi mengangkat standar seluruh klub.
The King of Lyon.
Liverpool telah mengeluarkan list pemain yang sah tidak akan sambung kontrak bersama kelab.
Salah, Konate, Robertson dan Rhys Williams sah akan dilepaskan kelab.
Ball boy corner taken quickly, Oakley Cannonier juga antara 8 pemain muda yang akan dilepaskan kelab.
Steven Gerrard on Liverpool fans calling for Darwin Núñez to return:
🗣️ “I understand why some fans still like Darwin Núñez because he always gave everything for the shirt, worked hard for the team and never hid from responsibility even during difficult moments.
But Liverpool cannot make decisions based on emotion, memories or what supporters wish had happened differently during his time at the club.
The club has to keep moving forward, not backwards, especially when the goal is to compete for Premier League titles and Champions League trophies every season.
When you look at players like Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike, you're looking at forwards who are more complete, more consistent and better suited to where Liverpool want to go in the future.
That isn't disrespect to Darwin, because he had qualities that helped the team and always gave maximum effort whenever he stepped onto the pitch.
It's just football, and sometimes clubs outgrow certain situations while looking for players who fit the next stage of the project.
The best Liverpool teams were always focused on improving, raising standards and finding ways to become even stronger.
And that's exactly what the club should continue doing if it wants to remain at the very top of European football.”
Liverpool telah menghubungi RB Leipzig untuk mendapatkan Yan Diomande.
Kelab kini dalam posisi terbaik untuk mendapatkan pemain.
RB Leipzig sebelum ini menyatakan bahawa mereka tidak mahu melepaskan pemain, namun telah menetapkan harga pemain itu sebanyak €130m.
Zinedine Zidane on Real Madrid signing Ibrahima Konaté:
🗣️ “If Real Madrid have signed Ibrahima Konaté, this is one of those moves that divides opinion immediately.
Because let’s be honest, Liverpool letting him go for free tells you something.
At a club like Liverpool, you don’t just release top-level players easily.
If they allowed it to happen, it means they felt he wasn’t at that level consistently enough.
He has physical strength, he has presence, he has moments where he looks dominant, but consistency at the very top level is the real question.
And at Real Madrid, that question becomes even bigger.
This is not a club where you have time to settle.
Every mistake is magnified, every drop in performance is judged instantly.
So while some people will say Madrid have stolen a bargain, others will quietly wonder why Liverpool didn’t fight harder to keep him.
Maybe they already knew something.
Maybe they felt he wasn’t reliable enough for their future plans.
And that’s where the risk comes in.
Because at Real Madrid, a player is not just judged on potential, but on weekly certainty.
If he adapts, it will look like a masterstroke.
But if he struggles, people will start asking if Liverpool actually made the right decision all along.”
🥇 | @DKingTelegraph: The last 12 months have drained Jeremie Frimpong.
The defender has never had muscle injuries before, but had three hamstring lay-offs and never got into any kind of rhythm.
He is adamant he will be better next season.
Ibrahima Konate on Diogo Jota:
“Even today it’s hard to believe. His locker was still there in the dressing room, and every day when I was going to training he was coming with us.
“I remember when I found out when I was in Los Angeles and I couldn’t believe it. It devastated me. I didn’t have any interest in anything else at that point. It was the last person anyone would have chosen this to happen to.
“He didn’t care about anything. He just wanted to be happy and to have a good time with his team-mates and his family. He wasn’t interested in fame. He was my neighbour as well, so I shared a few more moments with him.
“It was something powerful that happened to all of us.”
[France Inter radio station via Mail Sport]
Staf yang dijangka akan dibawa Iraola ke Liverpool:
Tommy Elphick - Assistant Manager (fans Liverpool juga)
Pablo de la Torre - Fitness Coach
Shaun Cooper - Set-piece coach
Tom Webber - Performance Analyst
Patrice Evra on Liverpool parting ways with Arne Slot and appointing Andoni Iraola:
🗣️ “First of all, I have respect for Arne Slot because winning trophies is never easy. But Liverpool is a club that doesn't live in the past. At a club that size, people don't ask what you did yesterday.
They ask what you're going to do tomorrow. And I think Liverpool looked at the future and decided they needed fresh energy. When I watch Andoni Iraola, I see a manager with personality.
I see courage. I see a coach who wants his team to attack, press, take risks and entertain. That's the Liverpool way.
Anfield doesn't just want results.
They want intensity. They want passion.
They want a team that makes opponents suffer for 90 minutes. Iraola has shown he can build exactly that.
Now, of course, managing Liverpool is completely different from managing Bournemouth. The pressure is bigger. The expectations are bigger. The spotlight is bigger.
But sometimes the biggest clubs need a manager who is hungry enough to prove himself. And that's what I see in Iraola.
Liverpool haven't appointed a safe option. They've appointed a brave one.
And sometimes bravery is what brings you back to the very top. That's the challenge ahead of him. That's why this appointment is exciting. Now it's time to prove it.”
🚨 Andoni Iraola to sign a two year deal until June 2028 at Liverpool, already involved in transfer plans and strategy.
Iraola asked for a two year deal as he always did at Bournemouth. 🔴🫱🏻🫲🏼
Liverpool want to be an aggressive, front-foot team led by someone who is all in, whose identity is intensity, who will immerse himself in the club through to the academy, and whose hard-working character will endear him to the city. That’s Andoni Iraola.
Yes, there are risks. There usually always are bar very rare circumstances. Jürgen Klopp thought he was a risk because he had never worked outside of Germany.
Looking at win percentages as a mark of appointing a new head coach/manager is nonsense. Klopp would have never been approached by Bayern Munich or joined Borussia Dortmund in that case.
Luis Enrique would have never gone from Celta to Barcelona.
It’s about what they’ve achieved relative to means, scaling that, plus their stylistic fit to the club and its ambitions.