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There was barely a dry eye in the house as Liverpool drew 1-1 with Brentford to round out the 2025/26 season.
Not so much at the result, although that in itself was a fitting way to sign off on a campaign that could best be described as average at best, but as Anfield rose to bid a fond farewell to both Mo Salah and Andy Robertson.
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It’s a day we all knew was coming, but that doesn’t make it any easier to accept.
Mo Salah will leave Liverpool at the end of the 2025/26 season. The Egyptian brings the curtain down on his nine-year Anfield career at the culmination of what has been a tough campaign for all involved at the club, but he leaves a legend nonetheless.
A club statement confirmed that Salah wanted to announce his decision prior to the end of the season to provide ‘transparency about his future’, while the club will ensure that one of their modern greats gets a fitting send-off.
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When his long and illustrious playing career finally comes to an end, with which club will James Milner be most inextricably linked?
For many, it will be Liverpool. Milner made 230 Premier League appearances for the Reds, which gave him a serious leg-up in his bid to become the competition’s most capped player.
And that finally came to pass in February 2026, when Milner started for Brighton in a game against Brentford – his 654th Premier League appearance, which broke the previous record held by Gareth Barry.
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Following his £125m move to Liverpool at the end of the transfer window, most fans would have expected Alexander Isak to have scored lots of goals for his new club by Christmas. As it is, though, the Swede has a mere three, two in the league plus another in the EFL Cup.
A lack of goals does not mean that the striker’s enforced absence will be a trivial one for Liverpool, though. With Isak out for a lengthy period, it leaves Arne Slot light upfront, with Hugo Ekitike the only natural fit for the position.
With many fixtures yet to come, especially during this time of year, how will Liverpool fare without Isak and might it trigger some movement from Liverpool in the transfer window?
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house as Andy Robertson revealed that Diogo Jota was at the forefront of his mind as Scotland qualified for the 2026 World Cup.
Jota missed the 2022 edition through injury, which was something not lost on Robbo as the Scots booked their passage to the 2026 tournament with a 4-2 win over Denmark.
With absolutely no disrespect intended, if you were told that a Liverpool player had broken the Champions League record for best pass success rate, you probably wouldn’t have guessed that Curtis Jones was the man to do so.
But it’s true: the homegrown talent bested the previous milestone for completed passes in the Reds’ 5-1 demolition of Eintracht Frankfurt.
Despite being one of the most prolific winners of silverware in Europe, Liverpool FC’s success still hasn’t been recognised with honours for their players on the continent.
In fact, the Reds’ haul of just one Ballon d’Or winner remains on a par with such luminaries as Blackpool and Dukla Prague.
There was hope that a second Liverpool player would be awarded the Ballon d’Or trophy in 2025, with Mo Salah having just delivered one of the all-time great seasons in European football.
But the Egyptian was once again cruelly overlooked, finishing a mind-bogglingly low fourth in the rankings.
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Joey Jones in July 2025.
In many ways, he was the perfect embodiment of Liverpool FC – Jones supported the club as a boy and frequently stood on the Kop, later getting the Liverbird tattooed on his arm.
He would come through the youth ranks at Wrexham, another club at which he is revered as an icon, before switching to Liverpool in 1975 in a £115,000 deal sanctioned by Bob Paisley.
In a season full of new highs, Liverpool have broken the transfer record for a fee paid by a Premier League club.
They will shell out a cool £116 million for Florian Wirtz, with only Philippe Coutinho’s switch from Anfield to Barcelona commanding a higher fee in a deal involving a Premier League side.
By extension, the capture of the German playmaker is also a record fee paid by Liverpool, so Wirtz clearly has big boots to fill.
The secret to success in football, of course, is scoring goals… and lots of them.
So while quantity is king, there’s also plenty to be said for quality, too – football, at its best, can be something of an art form.
There’s a handful of different awards given out at the end of the campaign to anoint the scorer of the best goal; ranging from the Premier League Goal of the Season to the BBC Goal of the Season, as well as the Puskas Award.
The likes of Terry McDermott, Ray Kennedy and John Aldridge all won the BBC’s award, handed out in conjunction with Match of the Day, prior to the First Division being rebranded as the Premier League, with Dietmar Hamann, Steven Gerrard, Emre Can and Mo Salah getting the nod since the 1992/93 campaign.
But only three Liverpool players, as of the end of the 2024/25 campaign, have ever won the official Premier League Goal of the Season trophy. Can you name them?