Liverpool title win LIVE: Reaction as Reds crowned Premier League champions

Arne Slot joins the ranks of Liverpool managers who have won the top-flight league title.

He is the 10th man to successfully achieve the feat but has a long way to go to emulate Liverpool’s most successful boss in Bob Paisley.

Here’s a list of Liverpool’s title-winning managers and the number of times they took top spot in the league:

6 – Bob Paisley (1975-76, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1981-82, 1982-83)

3 – Bill Shankly (1963-64, 1965-66, 1972-73), Kenny Dalglish (1985-86, 1987-88, 1989-90)

2 – Tom Watson (1900-01, 1905-06)

1 – David Ashworth (1921-22), Matt McQueen (1922-23), George Kay (1946-47), Joe Fagan (1983-84), Jurgen Klopp (2019-20), Arne Slot (2024-25)

Liverpool’s talisman for this season, Mohamed Salah, says that this Premier League title win is ‘100% better’ than when the Reds took the crown in 2020 with empty stadiums do to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Salah said: “It is incredible to win this with our fans. This is 100% better than last time [in 2020], especially with the fans. We have a different group now so to show we can do it again is something special.”

Here are the scenes at Anfield yesterday when Liverpool’s Premier League victory was confirmed.

The Liverpool manager was also full of praise for his predecessor, Jurgen Klopp, and revealed he had spoken to the German throughout the season.

“Many moments in this season the two of us had either WhatsApp contact or we spoke to each other,” Slot said.

“So I think he showed last season when he said farewell what kind of a human being he is by introducing me the way he did.

“That, of course helped, but the thing that helped the most was that he left a team behind that was able to win a trophy.”

Liverpool manager Arne Slot spoke after yesterday’s win over Tottenham and praised the fans for their support throughout the season.

The Dutchman said: “The moment when we arrived with the bus, everybody could feel that we were never, never going to lose this game.

“The fans were so supportive before the game, during the game that even when we were 1-0 down you could feel that these fans and this team were able to get this one over the line.”

Daniel Sturridge led the tributes to Liverpool manager Arne Slot following the Reds’ victory over Tottenham on Sunday.

Speaking on Sky Sports the former Liverpool striker said:

“To come in and follow a big manager who’s been so successful and adored by the fanbase.

“He’s come in and stamped his authority on it. What he’s done in such a short space of time has been remarkable.

“The expectation wasn’t that they would be here now. Doing it with four games to spare is special.”

Briefly, Arne Slot seemed to lose himself in the moment. A red Liverpool shirt on top of the smart-casual blue outfit he has donned, with great predictability, for every match, he was jumping up and down in front of the Kop. Yet while Anfield chorused his name, he wanted to hear that of another.

A thoughtful man had his predecessor in his mind and, when he took the microphone, a favour was returned and repaid. A year ago, Jurgen Klopp took his leave by chanting about Slot. He was not a handpicked replacement nor an old ally, but Klopp has long had the power to persuade people. He often used it in the right way.

And, 11 months on, Slot celebrated a Premier League title win by singing about Klopp; not particularly tunefully, but meaningfully.

The banner in the Kop borrowed from the words Virgil van Dijk used when signing his new contract. “It was always Liverpool,” it read. And over a season, it was. Even on a day when they briefly trailed, it was always going to be Liverpool. This was a coronation rather than a contest, the culmination of a wonderful debut season for Arne Slot.

The chants of “we’re going to win the league” were scarcely bold predictions but became factually accurate when Thomas Bramall blew the final whistle, when the substituted players spilled on to the pitch, when Arne Slot and his staff bounced around in a group hug, when Mohamed Salah took selfies with the Kop, Dominik Szoboszlai hung off the crossbar and jubilation engulfed Liverpool.

After Jurgen Klopp had dropped his bombshell, when Liverpool were assessing the contenders to replace him, several aspects of Arne Slot’s record counted in his favour.

There was the reputation for over-performing, for exceeding his targets. The Feyenoord head coach had won a historic club just their second league title of the 21st century.

Liverpool are the new Premier League champions having taken the title away from Manchester City with a 5-1 victory over Tottenham on Sunday afternoon.

Arne Slot’s men secured their second title win in five years with a superb run of form at the start of the year and have led the rest of the league for 206 days before finally claiming the win that makes their title win inevitable.

Goals from Luis Diaz, Alexis Mac Allister, Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah kick started the celebrations at a sold out Anfield as pundits, players and managers from around the Premier League congratulated the Reds on their achievement.

We’ll have the latest reaction and analysis from Liverpool’s title win throughout the day so please stick around.