Liverpool F.C. have won the Premier League for the second time in the club’s history. Arne Slot’s side won the title at Anfield against the Tottenham Hotspur on 27 April, ending the Dutchman’s first season with the club on a high.
The game ended 5-1, as Liverpool put a struggling Spurs side to the sword. After an early Solanke goal, the Reds took control and eased to victory and the title.
This marks Liverpool’s record 20th league title, drawing them level with rivals Manchester United.
An up-and-down season for the club, Liverpool took early exits in both the FA Cup, in the fourth round, and the Champions League in the round of 16. However, they did also make it to the final of the EFL Cup, losing to Newcastle United at Wembley.
Liverpool entered the season to a chorus of questions.
Liverpool entered the season to a chorus of questions. The introduction of a new manager, Arne Slot, after long time head coach Jürgen Klopp left in the summer, left many feeling they were set for a period of rebuilding. This, coupled with only one signing, Federico Chiesa from Juventus, in the summer, meant Liverpool were not predicted to win the league by any of the BBC’s 30 pundits.
This season, the league has been criticised for being rather uncompetitive as the second-place team are set to finish with a point tally below 80 for the first time since 2020-21, and for only the second time in the past decade.
Winger, Mohammed Salah, is set to win the Golden Boot this season as he has spent this season moving through the all-time league goals rankings, now sitting in fifth, being the highest active player on the list.
Salah has also resigned with the Merseyside club, granting another two years of his services. Club captain Virgil Van Dijk has done the same.
Academy graduate, and local lad, Trent Alexander-Arnold however has recently announced that he will leave the club at the end of the season, with Real Madrid being favourites to secure the right back’s services.
He posted on X, ‘This is easily the hardest decision I’ve ever made in my life’. This will bring to an end his 20 years with the club, having signed for the academy in 2004.
Time will tell whether Liverpool decide to strengthen in the summer transfer window, as they seek to win back-to-back league titles for the first time since 1983-84.