Jim Boardman

@jimboardman.uk

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Football writer, podcaster and occasional radio guest. Anfield Index, Mirror Football, Anfield Road, BBC, TalkSport and elsewhere. Mostly #LFC and usually my opinions. https://linktr.ee/jimboardman

Mohamed Salah social media post I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that. Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it. Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games. Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on. As l've always said, qualifying to next season's Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.
Fagan did not allow Liverpool's players to celebrate for long. "Here are the Championship medals. If you qualified for one, take one," he told his squad after their short summer break. "The trophies we won last season, the European Cup, League Championship and League Cup are gone. In the past. We start again. We're European champions. We have to defend our title."
Screenshot showing a two-column table summarising seven moments from Arne Slot’s press conference where he mentions limited rest, physical and mental fatigue, recovery, injury risk from games coming quickly, and the disadvantage of a Saturday 12.30 kick-off after a midweek match.
Screenshot from LFC official website with photo of Conor Bradley. Headline: “Conor Bradley injury update”
Screenshot from official Liverpool FC website. On whether he spoke towards Salah as part of the group in training... Yes. I communicated towards him that he wasn't travelling.
Salah: I sit on the bench. For 90 minutes. I think that’s the third time I’ve been on the bench. I think it’s my first time in my career. So... I’m very disappointed. I’m very, very disappointed. With... I have done so much for this club. Everybody has seen that during the years and especially last season. Sitting on the bench... I don't know why. Uh, seems like the club is throwing me under the bus. That's how I feel it. How I feel it. Uh... I think it's very clear that someone wants me to take all the blame. The club promised me in the summer for a lot of promises and nothing... so far I’m on the bench three games. So I can say that they... they keep the promise. And as I said many times before, I had a good relationship with the manager. And out of the sudden... we don’t have any relationship. I don’t know why. Um... seems... seems to me, how I see it, that someone doesn’t want me in the club. But again, this club I will always support it. My kids will always support it. I love the club so much. And I will always do. Now I’m having... I called my mum yesterday. Because I knew… you guys didn’t know if I’m gonna start or not, but I knew. I called my mum and dad yesterday, I told them come to Brighton game. It doesn't matter if I play or not, I’m gonna enjoy it. We see what’s gonna happen but... in my head I’m going to enjoy that game if I play or not. If I’m on the bench or not because I don’t know what’s gonna happen now. So... that’s gonna be in Anfield. Say goodbye to the fans... go to Africa Cup... because I don't know what's gonna happen when I'm back. Reporter: What do you do with the situation now? Salah: It’s not accepted for me to be treated like... I don’t know why that happened always to me. I don’t get it. I think if I’m somewhere else, every club would protect this player. I don't know why I'm in this situation now. But again, it's... how I see it now is like... it's like you throw Mo under the bus because he is the problem in the team now. But I don't…
Screenshot of message from HJC, photo of the Hillsborough Monument with text reading “The Hillsborough Justice Campaign invites you to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the 97 victims of the Hillsborough Disaster. Meet from 2.30pm 15th April, at the HJC monument at bottom of St John’s Gardens opposite tunnel. All welcome. #unlawfullykilled #JFT97”
The Hillsborough Monument in Liverpool city centre.
Screenshot from liverpoolfc.com: “News. Mohamed Salah signs new contract with Liverpool FC.”
Mural, with painting of David Moyes in front of an Everton badge. Text reads: “10 years at Everton for boss who proves you don't need trophies to be a winner but he is a winner” “Manager of the Decade” “Taffs Taverns The Peoples Pub”
Premier League table showing Liverpool first on 28 points, Man City second on 23 and then Chelsea, Arsenal and Brighton on 22. Spurs, Forest and Villa follow on 19, with Newcastle in ninth on 18 points. All teams shown have played 12 games, except Liverpool and Newcastle, who have both played 11.