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Arne Slot: Excuses are for teams that don’t win the League | BBC News
In an exclusive interview with BBC Sports Editor Dan Roan, Liverpool’s head coach Arne Slot has said that excuses are “for teams that don’t win the league” and it is “nice” his side won the Premier League so he does not have to rely on them.
Reflecting on leading the club to a 20th top-flight title in his first year since succeeding Jurgen Klopp, the Dutchman told BBC Sport of his pride at the achievement, despite some challenges.
He said: “All these excuses you could give to Liverpool… with us maybe not spending… or not bringing new players in, or taking over from someone…. All these things are excuses for teams that don’t win the league, and it’s nice that if you have all these excuses, that you don’t have to use them, but you still just won it.”
Liverpool secured the title without any serious strengthening of the squad Slot inherited, which he said made it “probably even more special”. And he drew comparisons with his time at Feyenoord, where he won the Eredivisie in 2023 despite an overhaul of his team. “I did it now in two different leagues and in two different ways.”
Recently the Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta lamented how “red cards and injuries” had impacted on his team’s title bid. Last season’s Premier League winners Manchester City cited similar problems with injuries to key players for the club’s failure to present a sustained challenge to Liverpool.
In a wide-ranging interview conducted at the club’s training ground before Liverpool’s final match of the season against Crystal Palace on Sunday, Slot also spoke of his “hope” that Trent Alexander-Arnold gets a “positive” send-off, after he was booed by some fans following confirmation he will leave his boyhood club next month.
Slot also said he would”cherish for the rest of my life” his team’s open bus parade through Liverpool to celebrate winning the title.
He disputed Arteta’s argument that teams had to be in “the right place at the right time” to win the Premier League, suggesting that over a long and arduous season it was clear that the best team won.
He insisted he was “not worried” about the uncertainty that surrounded key players Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk before they signed contract extensions and said it would be “stupid” not to strengthen the squad this summer, although he admitted that the club may not be able to bring in the players they most want.
Jane Hill presents Arne Slot’s exclusive interview with BBC Sports Editor Dan Roan.
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Negotiators for the US and Iran have agreed a framework of a deal that would extend their ceasefire for 60 days and launch negotiations on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme, US sources say.
The agreement comes amid continued strikes and accusations of ceasefire violations, with tensions still high across the region.
Talks are also said to include potential changes to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a key global energy route.
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More than three months after the US and Israel first began their war with Iran, Washington and Tehran have reached an initial agreement to bring about a more long-term end to hostilities.
US President Donald Trump has said it paves the way for what he called the “toll-free” opening of the Strait of Hormuz. He called on ships to start their engines and “let the oil flow”.
The full text of the deal has not yet been released. Pakistani mediators say the agreement will be officially signed in Switzerland on Friday 19 June.
Our US State Department correspondent Tom Bateman tells us that President Trump and Iranian officials are already giving different accounts of what’s been agreed.
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Twelve police officers injured and water cannon fired after second night of NI riots | BBC News
#Belfast #NorthernIrelandTwelve police officers have been injured and 16 people arrested in the second night of rioting in Northern Ireland.
A water cannon was deployed to disperse a large crowd during the unrest prompted by a serious knife attack in Belfast on Monday.
The family of the victim, Stephen Ogilvie, said they did not want this “terrible tragedy to be used to divide people or fuel hostility,” and appealed for privacy.
Hilary Benn, the UK Northern Ireland secretary, said a sense of fear “has spread amongst ethnic minority people” in Northern Ireland after the nights of violence.
On Wednesday, a 30-year-old, originally from Sudan, appeared in court charged with attempted murder over a knife attack that caused serious injuries to the victim.
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As she launches her third album global superstar Olivia Rodrigo sits down with the BBC to talk music making, her best gig ever and the joys of living in London.
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