{"id":5064,"date":"2026-05-23T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:27:11","slug":"ill-always-be-very-grateful-arne-slots-tribute-to-andy-robertson-and-mo-salah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=5064","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;ll always be very grateful&#8217; &#8211; Arne Slot&#8217;s tribute to Andy Robertson and Mo Salah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Talking about moments, I believe you consider his goal against Brighton at Anfield to be one of the most important moments of last season?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a signature Mo Salah goal, I would say \u2013 going inside, hitting the far corner. This is something he did a lot, a lot in my time. Longer ago, I also saw a lot of goals when he went around on the outside and then came inside. Last season, it was mainly the threat of an overlapping run or whatever happened and he could go inside and score his goal.<\/p>\n<p>Big moment, because everybody thinks when we think about last season that we outplayed the league and we were every single time 10 times better than the other team, which was not true. There were more than enough games where the game was even. This was one of them, but then Mo stepped up. That is one of the things why our season last season was so successful, because every time when a game was equal and when I was wondering, \u2018Come on, Mo, now we need a moment from you\u2019 then he produced a moment like that. <\/p>\n<p><strong>He said last season was his best season, he feels it was his best. He\u2019s obviously got plenty to choose from but that\u2019s his one. From a coach\u2019s point of view, describe to us how impressive it was, because players can do it for one game, they can do it for two or three games in a row, but to produce those numbers that he did is rare\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, because I think even for his standards, that season was special. So the amount of goals, the amount of assists that he had in that season was even more than he had in the other seasons where his standards were already incredibly high. And to do that in a time where the league has become stronger and stronger and stronger. Because five, six years ago, I\u2019ve said this recently many times, we saw results like a 3-0 win, 4-0 win, 5-0 win, I even think they beat Bournemouth once with nine, but this particular season and this season you don\u2019t see these results anymore. Not from (Manchester) City, not from Arsenal, not from us. So then these goals matter even more. So if you make the 5-0, the 6-0 or the 7-0, it\u2019s also nice. But making the 2-1 or making the 1-0 is something he did a lot last season, and I think that makes his numbers of last season even more special if almost all the goals he scored and almost all of the assists he had mattered to the result of the game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We saw his emotions and everyone\u2019s emotions after that Tottenham game when the league was won. It felt right and important that the likes of Mo, Robbo, Ali, Virgil got another title for their consistency and their quality. It felt like one wouldn\u2019t be enough for that\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For everything they did for this club, they\u2019ve earned the right to win the league more than only once. I think they\u2019ve been, when I wasn\u2019t there, a few times so close. They had an unbelievable team back then, that was so unfortunate that there was one other team that could win just as much. As I said, that was the way the league was at that moment of time. If you had one draw, you probably had a problem because City or Liverpool would win almost every game. That has completely changed in the last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>But for them, for the impact they made on Liverpool, but also I think in football in general, in Europe, everybody would describe that era where Liverpool, J\u00fcrgen\u2019s team, was at its best, four or five years ago, those three or four years everybody was talking about City and Liverpool. And to come away with \u2018only\u2019 \u2013 which is not only, because it\u2019s still a lot \u2013 one league title and one Champions League would not do justice to what they\u2019ve achieved, all of them here at this club, making so many great memories. I\u2019m really pleased for them.<\/p>\n<p>They deserve to win the league more than once. Because winning it once is already special, winning it twice sets you in a different category. And that\u2019s what they did and I\u2019m really happy for them and also for myself because I could be part in one of the two. I will always be very grateful to Robbo and Mo and to the whole team that I could be part of a team that has won the Premier League for Liverpool, which is for me and I think for these players even more special than winning it somewhere else because of how, if we win it, we are able to make it such a great party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about moments, I believe you consider his goal against Brighton at Anfield to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}