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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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How UK PM Boris Johnson’s false claim about Jimmy Savile led to a political backlash – BBC News
A look at a false claim made by the prime minister about Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and its fallout.
Outside Source’s Ros Atkins talks through what was said, the political reaction and the targeting of Sir Keir by protesters near Parliament.
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It’s a sex abuse scandal that has gripped the world. But despite all the headlines and stories, important questions remain unanswered about Jeffrey Epstein.
How did he become so powerful? How did he befriend so many important people? And where did the money come from that allowed him to abuse hundreds of girls and young women?
Panorama follows the crooked money trail to show how Epstein conned and ingratiated his way into the lives of the super-rich and then used their money to fund his global sex trafficking operation.
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China’s President Xi Jinping will meet Donald Trump later this month with the issue of AI governance high on the agenda.
In recent weeks there has been increasing concern around the risks that AI might pose to humanity, after a safety researcher at Anthropic suggested the technology could, “kill all humans” within the next decade.
Washington has long framed the United States’ development of AI as a race against China – one that it considers vital to its national security. But does China see it the same way? And if so, what are the chances of these rival superpowers cooperating to reign in the risks of AI?
The Global Story’s Asma Khalid is joined by Kyle Chan, a fellow at the Brookings Institute and an expert on Chinese tech development, to understand how China’s AI ambitions differ from the US, and what‘s really at stake if these two countries fail to find common ground on this era-defining technology.
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02:20 Will AI kill us all?
03:28 Why could AI be dangerous?
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At least 20 people have been killed, including five children, and dozens are missing after a war-damaged building collapsed in the Gaza Strip, according to local rescue teams.
Video footage shows the search for bodies and survivors continuing in the rubble of the multi-storey building in the Tal al-Hawa area of Gaza City, its floors sandwiched together.
Locals said 10 families had been living in the apartments despite warnings that they were unsafe.
Members of the Hamas-run Civil Defence rescue service said they had initially been working with “empty hands” due to tight Israeli restrictions on equipment allowed into Gaza. However, they have since been able to borrow some heavy machinery.
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Mingma Gyalje Sherpa was friends with Nirmal Purja and Kili Pemba Sherpa, two of the strongest climbers he had ever known.
But this July, an avalanche swept through Pakistan’s Broad Peak while the two were on their way up, engulfing everything in its path.
Speaking to BBC News, Mingma recalls the moment he found their bodies.
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