Slot on Premier League Title win feeling unreal

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Liverpool boss Arne Slot on Premier League Title win feeling unreal  27/04/2025  Anfield, Liverpool, UK

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00:00If you're in the league, you're doing my media.

00:08Do it. Are you happy?

00:10Yeah.

00:20Thanks, Dave.

00:23Richard.

00:24Congratulations. What was it like for you in the league camp?

00:31Very, very happy of course, but to a certain extent also quite unreal.

00:38Because you've worked so hard for this moment to happen and when it does happen,

00:43it needs some time for you to truly feel it.

00:48But the fans were so happy that it didn't take me long to understand what we've achieved together this season.

00:59Chris?

01:02Yeah, that is so, so, so special.

01:16The moment I knew I would become the new head coach over here,

01:22that's already a moment where you're so proud of.

01:25To be part of such a great football club, then now to be part of the history of this football club

01:31is something I think I could have only dreamt of two, three or four years ago.

01:37I don't know if it's funny or not, but I think it was four, five or six years ago.

01:42It was the first time when I was here, when Pep Leinders invited me, that was against Tottenham.

01:48I think they won that game 4-0, it was somewhere around Christmas time.

01:54And we all know what happened around Tottenham one or two years ago,

01:59so now to win it against them is quite special.

02:03And this week the one I was with was my sports director, Cam Williou, where I worked back then.

02:10He showed me that we were also visiting a match from the under-21s

02:14where Joe and Trent were involved in that game.

02:17I don't know where they played, but it was in a small stadium.

02:21So yeah, special day and not the first time I was here when we played Tottenham.

02:31James?

02:32Can you describe what it was like first riding at the stadium,

02:37seeing the scenes outside, all the fans, and then the final whistle and that relief,

02:44your own pitch, the sick fans, what was that like?

02:49The only moment I was emotional today was when we arrived at the stadium,

02:54to see what it meant for the fans, what it meant for these people.

02:59For us to have a chance of winning it felt really special,

03:04but immediately it also felt like, oh, we still have to do it.

03:07But I think everybody who was inside that bus felt,

03:10if the fans are with us like they are,

03:13then it's impossible for us to lose this game of football.

03:17And then during the game, after the game, it's been incredible,

03:23how the support of the fans were and how our players played.

03:27And special, special to be part of this day.

03:32Andy?

03:34How will you celebrate tonight?

03:37Probably with a glass of beer or two, or maybe three.

03:42If I'm correct, then there will be a little party over here with friends, family.

03:50Sorry, maybe.

03:51Maybe, yeah, maybe not.

03:53So yeah, the moment I leave this room,

03:57probably they're going to inform me what are the plans.

03:59But I definitely know it's going to be special,

04:02but I think there's one more special moment to come, somewhere around the 26th.

04:08Will?

04:10Did Johan take you up to the title?

04:14Probably congratulations.

04:17I don't remember exactly what he said,

04:20but it was special for them as well, I think, to be part of this moment.

04:26For them to trust me in this position.

04:31Maybe now everybody says, ah, that's made complete sense.

04:37But the moment they signed me, is that the way you say it?

04:43Maybe not everyone was as convinced as everyone is now.

04:49So that tells you also what a special club this is

04:53and that they don't always go for the most simple or obvious choice,

04:57but they make the choice that they think is best for the club.

05:02So it must be a special moment for them as well,

05:05second time in five years, that they win the league also.

05:08And now to do this in front of our fans is special for everyone, including for them.

05:12Lewis?

05:13How proud does that make you of your own achievement?

05:18Very proud, very proud, but it's special to have them with me.

05:24Because my family, all of the families of the players,

05:28have to make certain sacrifices if you do this job.

05:30Not only this season, throughout your whole career.

05:33Me, like you, everyone works really hard, but we're not always home.

05:37Of course, for me, my family was still in Holland,

05:40so it was in moments hard for me, but definitely for them as well.

05:45And now to win it, I think everybody feels that all the sacrifices were all,

05:51but the few sacrifices we've made were definitely worth it.

05:54And then it's special that they can experience this moment as well.

05:59Oli?

06:00It felt like a very classy gesture for you to thank Klopp when you got on the microphone.

06:09Not a lot of managers would have done that, I don't think.

06:12Why did you feel the need to do that?

06:15Because of what he did when I arrived here, before I even arrived here.

06:19I think that is something not one manager ever did before.

06:23So that is what definitely helped me.

06:27But apart from that, he helped me even more by the team he left behind

06:32and the culture he left behind in that team.

06:34The quality the players have was, I think, obvious for everyone.

06:37But the culture of hard work, the culture of not only from the players,

06:43but also from the staff members, have been incredible.

06:46And that is one of the reasons why we could achieve what we've achieved this season.

06:51So, yeah, for obvious reasons, I think it was a nice moment to thank him as well.

06:57Matt?

06:58Bill Shankly once said that this winning the league was a couple of bread and butter.

07:04Would you agree with that statement?

07:06He was probably longer in his job than I was,

07:11he knew the club even better than I know it at the moment,

07:14but what I noticed from the first day I came in was that winning the league

07:20would be the most special trophy we could win.

07:24And, yeah, I think I felt that throughout the whole season.

07:30Although we were all very disappointed when we were knocked out by Paris and Germain,

07:34but we always felt there was a bigger goal to achieve.

07:37And to do that in the most difficult league in the world,

07:42in a period of time where it gets harder and harder and harder,

07:47probably to win it, is very special.

07:51James?

07:52Ali, you've been talking to the league since November,

07:55was there a particular point along that journey

07:58where you really started to believe yourself this day as possible?

08:01Yeah, it wasn't today that I felt like it's possible.

08:06I think we felt it is possible for quite a long period,

08:09but if it's possible there's something else that you will achieve it.

08:14So we knew and we still know how hard it is to win a game of football in this league,

08:20so that we were one of the teams that could win it,

08:22I think that was quite clear from pre-season onwards.

08:27But then you need to have consistency, and that's difficult, but we had that,

08:33and that's the reason why we probably deserved to win it.

08:37If you have a margin like we have, I think it's fair to say

08:40that we deserved to win this league this season.

08:43Last couple here and then here.

08:45I think you're the first coach manager to win the Premier League out of the two,

08:48how does that feel?

08:49Special, because the country I'm from has a lot of great football players,

08:55a lot of great managers as well, not all of them worked in England,

09:00so then it's also hard to win the Premier League if you didn't work here.

09:04But to be the first one is so special because that will always stay the same.

09:10And especially then to win it at this club.

09:13What I mean with that is, with the history of the club of course,

09:16but also if I would have taken over at a club that won from the last five seasons,

09:21one of five times in a row, people might maybe say,

09:24that's not such a difficult job to win it then.

09:27But that's not, although we won it twice in five seasons,

09:32but City won it of course the last few seasons.

09:35So it's special to be the number one and it's special to win it over here.

09:39After such an amazing first season,

09:42how do you sort of reset expectations for next season?

09:45I mean, obviously I haven't even seen some in yet,

09:48but how do you sort of build on this?

09:50Are plans already in place for the summer?

09:52Yeah, definitely.

09:54But I don't have to manage expectations,

09:56because the expectations at this club are always the same.

09:59We have to compete for every trophy,

10:01and that didn't change when I came in, and that doesn't change next season.

10:06We have a group of players that are able to win things,

10:10but we're not the only one.

10:11There are so many great teams in this league and in the Champions League,

10:14so it's never going to be easy,

10:16but that we have to compete.

10:17I'm not trying to lower down the expectations.

10:20Next season again we have to compete for every single trophy,

10:23and that's also definitely what we are trying to do.

10:26Paul Vergassohn.

10:28Are you trying to follow up?

10:30I don't think we are, no.

10:34Thank you everyone.

10:36You're welcome.

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