Why
@JamesMilner
left Man City for LFC.
Brendan Rodgers: 'He had won the Premier League, he had won cups. His whole ambition was to win the Champions League and he felt that he would have a better opportunity to win it at Liverpool.'
He was right.
Klopp: 'Naby Keita was ready but I was not brave enough to make six changes. That was the first game of the tough period. We have to make changes and we will make changes.'
Why don't the
@premierleague
and
@FA_PGMOL
just tell us how they have decided the final League Table is going to finish so we can all save our time and money and spend it on other things. It's every game now.
Klopp: ‘I’m so happy for the boys. I’m so happy for my family - they suffer every year when I get to the last game of the season! Did you ever see a team like this - fighting with no fuel in the tank. A goalkeeper who makes difficult things look easy. Thank you very much.'
Some delicious irony that Crystal Palace and Chelsea were involved in the final 24 hours of the title race. With hindsight, it was always going to be today.
Bob Paisley's team of 82/83 won the title at a canter and failed to win any of their last seven games (losing five!). The following season Liverpool won the League, European Cup and League Cup.
If you're feeling in any way nervous about the game, just remember we've won a European Cup with Milan Baros as our striker and Djimi Traore in defence.
Neco Williams: 'It was just unbelievable. It was a night we'll remember for a long time. The whole team went to the final whistle. The crowd were excellent. I've known some of these lads since were 7 years old. It's such a special night.'
LFC points total after 18 games
2013/14 - the season the reds should have won the league - 36 points
2008/09 - the season we ended with our highest ever Premier League points total - 39 points
This season - 48 points
Lyon captain Nabil Fekir's 'dodgy knee' seems to have been okay enough for him to play 88 games and score 37 goals in the last two seasons. For comparison purposes the Liverpool captain has managed 68 games and 2 goals.
The Champions of Europe, Liverpool FC, are of course now the top seeds in next seasons competition which will culminate in the final at the Ataturk Stadium, Istanbul.
🎺 James Milner MBE.
The Liverpool midfielder collected his honour today for services to football and charity. He was named in the Queen's birthday honours in June 2022.
Alisson ends an emotional interview with
'I hope I don't have to come out too many more times to score the winning goal. Maybe my teammates will do that for me.' 😂
97 pts is great. But we're not soft. Second is nowhere. The history of our club recognises that.
We weren't the best club in England this year. City beat us and we drew at Anfield. That's the difference.
Now we have to make sure we finish as the Champions of Europe.
Again.
Klopp: "I don't know exactly how many people live in Liverpool but it does not look like there is a lot of space for fans of other clubs. "
"It is incredible. If you are a young kid, which do you support? There are not a lot of opportunities or options other than Liverpool"
Corrupt. Why bother making 50,000 people travel to a football game - the officials should just tell everyone beforehand who they want to win and we can just be done with it. That ref and the VAR team should be nowhere near top flight football for 12 months.
Jurgen Klopp can't wait to get back to Liverpool and start the parade. It gets underway at 4pm today. 'I think that will be the moment it sinks in and we realise how much it means to people. I can't wait.'
Wijnaldum:
"After the game in Spain we were confident we could score four and win 4-0,.
"People outside doubted us. They thought we couldn't do it. But once again we showed everything is possible in football.