Slot on Liverpool's title win and celebrations
25/05/2025
Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, Uk
25/05/2025
Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, Uk
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00:00Thank you for waiting everyone. Busy.
00:13No questions? No.
00:20Another special day.
00:23Less pressure than four weeks ago of course,
00:26when we had to win the game.
00:29To get those special celebrations.
00:31Now we knew we would get them.
00:33The energy in the stadium, how loud the fans were.
00:41The way the game ended in the last half-hour going down to ten men
00:45and then seeing such a great reaction from the players and the fans,
00:48which led to, in my opinion, a deserved goal.
00:52We deserved to go 1-1.
00:54These players and these fans hate losing, don't want to lose.
01:00That's what we saw today again.
01:02Yeah, I think the word brilliant and our fans goes together.
01:16How brilliant they were before the Tottenham game,
01:22during the Tottenham game and afterwards.
01:24I don't think you see many special celebrations as you saw four weeks ago.
01:28I don't think you see many of them like we had today.
01:30So yeah, it's no surprise to me at all that they were brilliant.
01:34Again, today as they were throughout the whole season,
01:37as they were towards Trent.
01:39But maybe it also helped what an unbelievable half he played.
01:44The passes he played were, if you make a highlight of this,
01:48probably it's going to take you three, four or five minutes.
01:51The ball to Darwin was another level, was next level.
01:56So he deserved it.
01:59Very happy for him, for everyone in and around the club,
02:03that things worked out as they did.
02:05I think everybody could see how difficult he had it after the game.
02:09And that tells you how hard it is to leave a club like this.
02:12And that's all we can try to do,
02:15to make it so hard for the players to leave.
02:18And many of them stay, not trying to make the decision to go,
02:22unfortunately for us.
02:23But it was great for him to have a farewell as he had today.
02:37Will?
02:38Hopefully that appetite will be big.
02:51But that's what we have to see in the upcoming, no, not in the upcoming weeks.
02:55We will see this when pre-season starts and when we start again.
02:59A few of them have already shown that they can win multiple times.
03:04So I'm talking about the ones that have won the league and the Champions League here before.
03:08And these are also the players that just keep on performing year after year after year,
03:12even if they don't win it.
03:14And a few of them now won the league for the first time,
03:16and they have to show that they have the same mentality as the ones that have won it here before.
03:20And I'm looking forward to be part of that.
03:24And, yeah, we know it's going to be tough again.
03:29It was already very tough this season.
03:31It's going to be probably just as tough or even tougher next season.
03:34Because the club that we've competed with this season
03:37have always, in every window, always invested a lot of money.
03:42And they're probably going to do so this summer as well.
03:45And, yeah, we did things differently last season.
03:48I don't think it has been said a lot, but maybe I'm completely wrong,
03:51because the one that told me maybe lied to me.
03:53But he said to me that since Alex Ferguson won the league,
03:56the last time he won the league,
03:58not a team has had so many academy minutes
04:01as our academy players had this season.
04:04So that's been really special.
04:06And we didn't do, apart from signing Federico Chiesa last summer,
04:13we didn't do a lot.
04:14And that makes it maybe even more special than to win it this season.
04:20And now we will see if the team needs...
04:23We can do things better already by ourselves
04:26without adding any players.
04:27But if we can, then we will definitely do so.
04:31We just want good players.
04:45And ideally you sign them as soon as you can.
04:50But it's not always easy to sign good players, let alone to sign them early in the window.
04:56But this club doesn't start working from today onwards.
05:02Because there is so much hard work being done behind the scenes already this season
05:06to find out which targets we have and try to sign them.
05:10I have all the confidence that if we've addressed the right player,
05:16that we try to sign that player.
05:22But let's see when that's going to happen and if that's going to happen.
05:28Because I'm very happy with the squad we already have on the front.
05:31What do you think you remember most about tonight?
05:34How passionate these fans are for the club.
05:44And how special it is to win something, let alone over here.
05:49I think I could feel today that it was 35 years ago that they were part of it.
05:53So it's only been five years ago that we won the league,
05:56but unfortunately the fans couldn't be there.
05:58Now they were and I think everybody could see what it means for the fans to win it.
06:03And that is what makes it special and in the end for us as well.
06:06Because you play football for yourself, for your family,
06:09but definitely also for the fans.
06:11And we are privileged that we can play it in front of these.
06:14Because these ones are special, which we're going to again show tomorrow.
06:17Because if other teams or clubs show the trophy in their city,
06:23then there are a lot of people out there.
06:25Some great videos you can see.
06:27But I think this is again going to be next level.
06:30Can we expect more radical changes in the way that the team is structured
06:42and the way it plays from the evolution that we've seen this year?
06:48No radical changes you would probably not see,
06:51because that would be a bit weird if you won the league.
06:54But I just said that if the whole team stays together,
06:59we can improve even with this team.
07:01We need to improve with this team.
07:03But if we are able to bring new players in,
07:06then maybe you have to adapt to their qualities as well.
07:10But that will never be drastically, is that the word you use?
07:15Because this is the playing style I prefer,
07:19this is the playing style the club prefers,
07:22and our fans want to see as well.
07:24So we try to find players if we think we need a new player
07:29that can fit this playing style.
07:31But you always adjust to worse,
07:34maybe new things you can expect,
07:36and you try to improve to this season.
07:41I have a follow-up if I may.
07:42In the golden era of Bob Paisley,
07:44which many of us remember,
07:46Bob Paisley would add one or two players each year to a good size.
07:54He didn't wait for the side to try and he added those two players.
07:59That seemed to work incredibly well for Liverpool.
08:02Is that a model that you would like us to follow?
08:05Not all of us here were part of that,
08:07so you need to have a certain age if you were part of that.
08:12But like I said,
08:15everybody was a bit surprised that we didn't strengthen the team last year
08:19and as a result of that we won the league.
08:21So there's not one thing that is smart to do.
08:25But if we need to strengthen the team we will,
08:28because I don't know yet if all the players that maybe didn't play that much this season
08:33if they all want to stay, yes or no.
08:35So this is something we will find out in the upcoming weeks.
08:39And like I said,
08:41this club has always worked in a way that if they addressed the right target
08:45we're trying to sign that one.
08:47And we do it our own way,
08:49so we're not hurried or rushed by what other people say.
08:53This club really knows what they are doing.
08:57And that's the same what we're going to do in this summer as well.
09:01Last one to see is an Ali Kay. Make it good.
09:03Congratulations.
09:04I was just going to ask you about your meeting with Jürgen Klopp.
09:10How did that happen?
09:12Did you see what the trade went?
09:14Yesterday?
09:15Yeah, that went well.
09:18I don't think we've met before.
09:21But we spoke to each other already a few times.
09:24And yesterday time was limited because these last days at the club
09:28everybody wants to speak to you.
09:30And a lot of things have to be done.
09:32Media is, by the way, one of them.
09:35So – but I did have some time for that.
09:39We might meet each other maybe the upcoming days once again.
09:44And maybe even if I can leave this room now I have some time to speak to him again.
09:49Thank you, everyone.