Coach Slot refutes Owen

Coach Slot's Liverpool are still focused and ready to complete the championship goal.

Previously, in an interview with Virgil van Dijk, Owen said that Liverpool ending the 2024/25 season with only one title would leave a “bitter taste”, as they were eliminated from the Champions League, FA Cup and Carabao Cup. This made the Liverpool captain unhappy and immediately showed his annoyance with Owen.

Asked about his player's reaction, Slot said: "Let me understand, Virgil was a bit annoyed because that statement made people feel that winning the Premier League was easy? Michael (Owen) used to play for us, right? So he must know that in the last 35 years, Liverpool have only won the league once?"

“If you win the Premier League with this club, then, my God, nothing else matters. If you do it 10 times in a row, I can understand people saying: ‘Oh, you just won the Premier League.’ At Liverpool, winning the Premier League is impossible, so I find that (Owen’s) comment quite strange. If Virgil thinks that, I agree with him,” the Dutch strategist emphasized.

Coach Slot also believes that the Premier League is very competitive and it is not easy to win the championship: "I think the tournament is more competitive than ever, the strength of all participating teams is increasing. Even Pep Guardiola said that there will be no team in his lifetime that will reach more than 100 points and win 4 consecutive championships. Many teams have more excellent players."

Liverpool are 12 points clear at the top of the table, ahead of second-placed Arsenal. In Slot's first season in charge, the Merseyside club are on course to win the title for the second time since the competition's inception in 1992/93. Liverpool travel to Fulham on 6 April, looking to pick up 13 points from their remaining eight games (out of a possible 24).

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