Alexis Mac Allister didn’t play in the final couple of games of the season but was very much a part of the celebrations, while Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah was delighted
Liverpool is still in the middle of celebrating this season’s Premier League title, with the parade around the city yet to begin. But Alexis Mac Allister already has one eye on the future.
In what was a remarkable debut campaign in England for Arne Slot, the Reds ended up finishing 10 points ahead of Arsenal in the standings despite picking up just two points from their last four matches. And the jubilation at Anfield both after the Tottenham game when the victory was confirmed and then after Crystal Palace when the silverware was lifted was 35 years in the making.
“It’s so, so special,” Mac Allister told the Reds’ official website. “This club deserves it. When I arrived at this club, I said I was here to win trophies. This is maybe the biggest one you can get here. I’m really, really happy but I’m pretty sure that this is just the beginning
Elsewhere, Mohamed Salah was delighted too. “It’s incredible, incredible,” he said. “Last time we didn’t have a chance to do it in front of The Kop. Today we had a chance
“It’s an incredible feeling to win the Premier League for this club. I don’t think [I’ve ever heard the fans so loud]. Last time, we won it in the pandemic so it wasn’t really a great feeling.
“But still the Premier League. Winning the second one with the fans in Anfield, especially the Spurs game and now… you can see [what it means
Slot was asked about the future in his post-match press conference, too, though he was giving little away on the transfer front
“Hopefully that appetite [to go again next season] will be big but we will see this when pre-season starts and when we start again,” he said. “A few of them have already shown that they can win multiple times.
“I’m talking about the ones that have won the league and the Champions League here before and these are also the players that just keep on performing year after year after year, even if they don’t win it.
“A few of them now won the league for the first time and they have to show that they have the same mentality as the ones that have won it here before. I’m looking forward to being part of that. We know it’s going to be tough again
It was already very tough this season. It’s going be probably just as tough or even tougher next season because the club that we’ve competed with this season have in every window always invested a lot of money and they’re probably going to do so this summer as well.
“We did things differently last season. I don’t think it has been said a lot but maybe I’m completely wrong because the one that told me maybe lied to me, but he said to me that since Alex Ferguson won the league, the last time he won the league, not a team has had so many academy minutes as our academy players had this season.
“So that’s been really special. Apart from signing Federico Chiesa last summer, we didn’t do a lot, and that makes it maybe even more special to win it this season.
“Now we will see if the team needs. We can do things better already by ourselves without adding any players. But if we can then we will definitely do so.”