Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard has said that Arne Slot’s comments on the club’s 2024-25 UCL campaign will be a body blow to the fans. Recall that the Reds manager recently suggested that Liverpool won the EPL because the team tumbled out of the Champions League early last season.
Reacting, he expected Liverpool supporters to frown at such a comment because they pay lots of money to watch the club in the UCL.
Gerrard added that Slot’s point was also lost in the fact that LFC were 15 points clear in the EPL when they crashed out of the Champions League.
His words, “I can understand the fans being frustrated on the back of that interview. The simple reason is, they were 15 points clear. In my opinion they had the league wrapped up by that point.
To say that helped them is a body blow for the fans really, because the fans have been on the journey. They’ve paid good money to follow the team in the Champions League games.
The frustration when you go out of the Champions League as a player or a fan, that hurts… so, to say that helped you when you were already 15 points clear, you can understand their frustrations.”
WOW.
Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation.
Domestically, the club has won 19 league titles, eight FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and 16 FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—all English records—and one FIFA Club World Cup.
The club established itself as a major force in domestic and European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, led the club to a combined 11 League titles and four European Cups. Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and 2019 under the management of Rafael Benítez and Jürgen Klopp, respectively; the latter led Liverpool to a 19th league title in 2020, the club’s first during the Premier League era.
Anfield was built in 1884 on land adjacent to Stanley Park. Situated 2 miles (3 km) from Liverpool city centre, it was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent with Anfield owner John Houlding. Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since. The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool’s first match at Anfield.
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