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Premier League news conferences taking place with Arne Slot up first Slot says goalkeeper Alisson is expected to join in training today after missing the defeat by Galatasaray on Tuesday plus updates on Alexander Isak & Federico Chiesa Liverpool take on beleaguered Tottenham on Sunday as they look to boost their top five chances Could tough run-in harm Liverpool's Champions League chances? Spurs manager Igor Tudor to speak at 13: 30 GMT with his side having lost six matches in a row and sitting just a point above the drop zone Also speaking on Friday: Pep Guardiola, Mikel Arteta, Michael Carrick and others We'll bring you all the latest team news before our FPL Q&A with FPL Heisenberg from 15: 30 Written by Ben Ramsdale, Adwaidh Rajan, Craig Nelson & Josh Lobley. Click 'Get Involved' to have your say Klopp had his 22-23 season where the midfield broke down. The team finished 5th and looked awful for long stretches.

This team has seen Salah drop off, star striker being injured and the death of one of their players. Give them and Slot a break. Stephen, Shropshire To all the moaners you cannot win everything all the time. This may be an off season but what will next season bring. J Tap, Shanklin Click 'Get Involved' to have your say Arne seems to have drained the creativity out of our club - we look lethargic and to be honest boring - at least Klopp would have put on a show. We wait till summer then we need to have a big think about where we go from here YNWA. Max, London Klopp's first season post title had his entire defence decimated. .. Slot had a £450m war chest after his. Garry, UK Re Alan from Exeter: Nobody called for Klopp’s head because his teams continued to play an exciting brand of football, he’d also won other trophies (including the Champions League), and he had no fit centre backs for almost the entire season. Keith, Leeds Liverpool v Tottenham (Sun, 16: 30 GMT) Liverpool Liverpool manager Arne Slot on Ryan Gravenberch signing a new contract: "It's obvious and clear that me and the club sees the importance of him and how much he developed. As a result of that he has signed a new contract. He's another young player which was signed very young and has the ability to grow. "His first season was maybe not at the level he was last season but that is completely normal if you sign young players that have to adjust - first to the Premier League - and there is a lot to come from them. "It has been our model even before I came here - signing younger players, who get the chance here in this great environment with such great facilities and so many great people working here, to improve those players to get them to develop. And when their peak is coming, usually a bit older, they are still playing for us. " Liverpool v Tottenham (Sun, 16: 30 GMT) Liverpool Arne Slot on what beating Tottenham to record Liverpool's 1, 500th league win at Anfield would mean to him: "We hold ourselves to the highest standards and this is another example of how successful this club has been, will be and still is. But if we reach that mark I don't feel completely responsible for that because I wasn't there for all 1500 games. "It is nice to be part of a club that is achieving so many special things because that means you are at a club where you can win something. That is something I want, that is something the players want. We are working every single day as hard as we can to try and achieve something. We want to win something and we are in the lucky situation that we are in a club that is able to do so, as history has shown. " Liverpool v Tottenham (Sun, 16: 30 GMT) Liverpool More from Liverpool manager Arne Slot on the nature of Alisson's injury: "He felt something when he passed the ball in one of his muscles, but after we checked it it was so minor we think it doesn't have to take very long. But as always games follow up so fast that he had to miss the one against Galatasaray and hopefully he is available and ready for Sunday. If not, I am expecting him, if things go as planned, definitely against Galatasaray [on Wednesday]. " On Federico Chiesa missing the Galatasaray defeat with illness: "I expect he feels better now because he felt unwell the day before the game. I think we are now three or four days further ahead so i think he is able to train with us today again. " And on Alexander Isak's fitness: "He is with the rehab team still and not with the team yet. " Liverpool v Tottenham (Sun, 16: 30 GMT) Liverpool Liverpool manager Arne Slot on setting the bar high in his first season as manager by winning the Premier League title: "The bar at Liverpool is always high, it has always been high and will always be high. We are a top club. The bar should be set high by the people around us, but we will set the bar just as high. "Indeed, last season we were able to achieve one of the things we wanted to achieve - that was winning the league. We were also close to winning the League Cup, which we lost in the final against Newcastle. "This season, of course, we are unable to win the league again but we are still in two cups - the Champions League and the FA Cup - where we are competing. " Liverpool v Tottenham (Sun, 16: 30 GMT) Liverpool Liverpool manager Arne Slot says Rio Ngumoha is ready to start for the team and he is definitely an option to do so in the next three games. He adds that they continue to be cautious with how many minutes he gets due to his age and the increased chance of him picking up injuries. Full quotes to follow. .. Liverpool v Tottenham (Sun, 16: 30 GMT) Liverpool Liverpool manager Arne Slot on this season's remaining priorities - silverware, Champions League qualification? : "What I want is that every single player gets the maximum out of every single training session and every game we are playing from now until the end of the season. That is the aim for me and should be the aim for the players and I am 100% sure that is the aim for the players because that is the only way to get the maximum out of what is there and what is in it for us. "What that is exactly going to be [trophies? ] is not always easy for us to say, sometimes you need a little bit of luck. .. margins at the level we are playing - Champions League, Premier League - are really small. We have to fight for those margins every single day to make them bigger and bigger and bigger. "That was already the aim at the start of the season and that is even more the aim now. " Liverpool v Tottenham (Sun, 16: 30 GMT) Liverpool Liverpool manager Arne Slot says the team "have the bad cocktail" of conceding goals from just a few chances that they give up and if they cannot improve that then every game will be difficult. He adds that he has confidence that the team can improve on this. Full quotes to follow. .. Liverpool v Tottenham (Sun, 16: 30 GMT) Liverpool Liverpool manager Arne Slot on playing Tottenham at Anfield - almost a year after clinching the 2024-25 title in the same fixture: "It is a big difference between where we are now and where we were then, that's clear and obvious. It's a great memory. I am looking forward to the game in two days. Playing at home at Anfield is always something to look forward to. "We have a point to prove because the last game in the league we lost and the last game in the Champions League we have lost and are now playing in front of our own fans. It's something we will always find special. " Liverpool v Tottenham (Sun, 16: 30 GMT) Liverpool Arne Slot says it is probably fair to say that Ryan Gravenberch has not been at the level he was last season but that is normal with him still being such a young player. He adds that he has the ability to grow and develop much further moving forward. The Dutch international signed a new long-term contract with the Reds last week. Full quotes to follow. Liverpool v Tottenham (Sun, 16: 30 GMT) Liverpool Liverpool manager Arne Slot on Alisson's fitness after missing Tuesday's defeat at Galatasaray through injury: "He's been with the physios and rehab until now. We are training today so let's see if he can join the team session. That is something I expect - I am hopeful - but I am not 100% sure yet because I haven't spoken to him or the medical staff this morning yet. " Liverpool v Tottenham (Sun, 16: 30 GMT) Liverpool Here is the Reds boss now. He starts with an injury update on Alisson. Slot says the goalkeeper has been with the physios until now but expects him to join in training today. Full quotes to come. .. Click 'Get Involved' to have your say Liverpool aren't a sacking club. This season was always going to be transitional with so many new signings. It's unfortunate that our established stars have also been out of form at the same time. Klopp's first season post title winning was also pretty poor. Nobody called for his head. .. .. Alan, Exeter Liverpool v Tottenham (Sun, 16: 30 GMT) Liverpool Not sure about a stepping down announcement, Matt, but we can expect some injury updates. .. Liverpool will once again be without long-term absentees Conor Bradley, Geovanni Leoni and Wataru Endo for Sunday's match at home to Tottenham - all three have been ruled out for the rest of the season through injury. Record signing Alexander Isak is also out, but is back training and could return next month. In the short-term, Italy forward Federico Chiesa and Brazil goalkeeper Alisson Becker both missed Tuesday's Champions League defeat at Galatasaray. Chiesa was ruled out through illness, while Alisson picked up an injury in training and the decision was taken not to risk him. Expect manager Arne Slot to give an update on those two in his news conference this morning, which is expected to start any time now! Click 'Get Involved' to have your say Hopefully Arne is announcing he's stepping down. Hasn't got a clue and makes too many excuses. We need better. Matt, Liverpool Liverpool v Tottenham (Sun, 16: 30 GMT) Chris Collinson BBC football statistician With fifth place likely to lead to Champions League qualification again, just three points separate Manchester United, Aston Villa, Chelsea and Liverpool for a place in the top five, with one of those sides looking set to miss out. Some would say Aston Villa have the easiest run-in of the quartet. After a tough trip to Old Trafford this weekend, they face four of the bottom six in their next six games, although whether playing sides fighting for survival is an advantage at this stage is debatable. Liverpool are the team currently outside the top five. They have the chance to build momentum against a run of mid-table sides before tackling a daunting series of games in May when they play all three of their Champions League-chasing rivals in succession. Premier League games unless stated Liverpool Liverpool have suffered contrasting fortunes over the last 10 days, bouncing back from a shock Premier League defeat at basement club Wolves with a comfortable win at Molineux in the FA Cup before being edged out by Galatasaray in the away leg of their last-16 Champions League tie. Arne Slot's side enjoyed a decent run in the league before that surprise loss at Wolves, bouncing back from a home defeat against Manchester City with three consecutive wins. They will be hoping to claw back Galatasaray in the home leg on Wednesday, but before that will aim to reboot their race for a top-five place when they return to Anfield on Sunday to host struggling Tottenham in the Premier League. Liverpool's last eight results: Liverpool's vulnerability from corners has been a thorny issue all season - and so it proved again in the 1-0 defeat by Galatasaray in midweek. Only West Ham (15), Chelsea (12) and Nottingham Forest (12) have let in more among Premier League sides. The goal that decided the first leg came after Victor Osimhen was allowed to rise unchallenged to meet Sara's corner, and the Nigeria forward headed it straight to Lemina to finish on a bitterly frustrating night for the visitors. While Istanbul may evoke memories of celebration for Liverpool fans after their extraordinary comeback win over AC Milan in the 2005 final, the Reds have now failed to win in four away games against Galatasaray. Having lost 1-0 to the Turkish champions in the league phase back in September, this was a test to see if Slot's side had learned lessons. The answer soon became apparent when they conceded early, while there was huge relief when Osimhen's goal - which would have been his eighth in this season's competition - was ruled out after Ibrahima Konate got his feet in a tangle. A 2-0 deficit would have left Liverpool facing an enormous task in the return, yet they are still going to have to come from behind to reach the quarter-finals. Failure to get through - just as they did last season with a last-16 exit against Paris St-Germain - will only increase the pressure on Slot's position. A hectic day of Premier League news conferences awaits us - as is the norm on a Friday. We've got 12 to bring you throughout the day, if not more before all is said and done. We'll be kicking things off with Liverpool's Arne Slot this morning before rounding the day out with a couple of north London rivals at very opposite ends of the table. Copyright © 2026 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.