Liverpool’s 2024 was distinctly cut up into two halves.
The primary noticed Jurgen Klopp’s trophy-laden and transformative stint with the Reds draw to a detailed. The German obtained the adoration of the Anfield crowd for the ultimate time in Might, together with his facet operating out of stream on the finish of the 2023/24 Premier League season.
Klopp’s successor endured a remarkably robust project, tasked with galvanising a gaggle mourning the lack of their chief. Arne Slot was the coach recognized by Liverpool’s recruitment staff as the proper candidate to rebuild on unbelievable foundations.
That has proved an impressed choice. The primary half of the 2024/25 marketing campaign has been actually distinctive for Liverpool, who solely misplaced as soon as below their new Dutch commander final yr.
Whereas 2025 guarantees to be an much more tantalising yr for Liverpool supporters, let’s solid our minds again to the perfect of 2024 for the Reds.
Liverpool have boasted an array of the world’s main stars over the previous decade and many stood tall in 2024. Virgil van Dijk loved a resurgent yr, Alisson continues to be the perfect goalkeeper on the planet when match and Alexis Mac Allister immediately wowed Anfield with a collection of stellar shows.
Nevertheless, there might be little doubt that, as soon as once more, Mohamed Salah was the standout performer for the Reds final yr. The relentless Egyptian produced remarkably constant performances for Liverpool and will end the present marketing campaign with a career-best tally ought to he preserve his extremely excessive requirements below Slot for the second half of the season.
His longevity is outstanding and his sturdiness equally so, whereas he nonetheless provides the searing tempo and dynamic left foot that has normally seen him grace the highest of Liverpool’s goalscoring charts.
Many have notably improved for the reason that arrival of Slot however none have fairly astonished like Ryan Gravenberch. The sleek however inconsistent Dutchman had journeyed to Merseyside in the beginning of Klopp’s closing marketing campaign however discovered adapting to the physicality and vitality of the Premier League a problem.
Slot moulding Gravenberch into a superb defensive midfielder wouldn’t have been on many individuals’s 2024 bingo card, however that he did. The 22-year-old has blossomed whereas anchoring the Liverpool engine room, answering the membership’s obtrusive want for a brand new quantity six.
Loud shoutouts should be heard for Cody Gakpo and Luis Diaz in the case of Liverpool’s most improved in 2024, however Gravenberch’s transformation has been too startling to disregard.
The top of Klopp’s reign was suffering from feel-good tales relating to Liverpool’s academy prospects. Accidents meant that the membership’s kids obtained ample alternatives to dazzle and the bulk made optimistic first impressions on the Anfield trustworthy.
Whereas Jarell Quansah too sparkled for Liverpool’s first staff, rising from relative anonymity and a brief mortgage spell in League One, it was right-back Conor Bradley who most endeared himself to supporters in 2024.
Following a season-long mortgage at Bolton Wanderers during which he was named the membership’s Participant of the 12 months for 2022/23, the Northern Irishman was instantly granted first-team alternatives for Liverpool. Filling Trent Alexander-Arnold’s footwear isn’t any easy activity, however the 21-year-old did a mightily spectacular job.
Reminiscent extra of Andy Robertson than Liverpool’s No.66, Bradley loved an immensely profitable yr, and has now racked up nearly 40 appearances and a good few assists for the Reds.
Shock, shock. It is Salah who served up probably the most strikes for Liverpool final yr, an everyday feat reached by the 32-year-old.
Salah produced 29 objectives in 44 matches for Liverpool in 2024, a tally bettered by simply six gamers in Europe’s prime 5 leagues and solely Erling Haaland within the Premier League.
The Reds’ talisman endured a gradual finish to final time period by his personal lofty requirements however has burst again into life in the beginning of Slot’s reign. 20 of these 29 strikes have come this time period – 17 of which have arrived within the Premier League.
Liverpool had been eye-catchingly quiet within the switch market final yr. Actually, they made simply two senior signings, with solely Federico Chiesa, who signed from Juventus for £12.5m over the summer season, having turned out in a pink shirt.
Arguably Liverpool’s extra thrilling addition is but to play for his new membership, with summer season recruit Giorgi Mamardashvili having been despatched again on mortgage to Valencia for the present marketing campaign. The Georgian goalkeeper is without doubt one of the recreation’s main younger stoppers and appears a pure inheritor to Alisson’s throne together with his wonderful reflex saves and spectacular distribution.
If Liverpool proceed on their present trajectory, there shall be loads of moments competing for standing as 2025’s biggest. Nevertheless, there may be one standout second from final yr.
Liverpool claimed their closing piece of silverware below Klopp again in February, successful the Carabao Cup closing in opposition to Chelsea. Van Dijk’s 118th-minute header secured a well-known victory for a youthful Liverpool staff, defeating the ‘billion-pound bottlejobs’.
Whereas Liverpool would have hoped to ship Klopp off with extra silverware, such a dramatic triumph was a becoming final hurrah for the legendary Reds boss.
