Liverpool and Huges “Absolutely Convinced” Club Has Made Right Signings
Liverpool’s 2025-26 season hasn’t gone to plan so far, with last year’s Premier League champions struggling to consistently deliver both quality performances and results and currently sat sixth in the league table. Not all is lost just yet, though, and there have been shoots of promise in recent weeks.
The question now is whether this group under this manager can now build on that and deliver week in and week out to secure Champions League qualification and perhaps even push for a seventh European title, and for his part, sporting director Richard Hughes remains convinced they can.
“You have to constantly try to help people off the pitch in their adaptation,” Hughes noted. “Young people coming from another country will take time to adjust to their surroundings and a different type of football than they may have been used to. So much isn’t necessarily alien but different.
“You want to be there to support them, let them find their feet. All these players are here for a good reason, they are top players. Everybody has played their part in getting them to the club and we’re all very happy with what we did in the summer. It’s a collective effort to help them be the best version of themselves.
“As long as the players are the right ones—and we are absolutely convinced that they are—then the performances on the pitch will follow, but you can’t just focus just on new players. It’s a team sport and just because new people come in you can just suddenly ignore players who have been here for years.”
Liverpool signed plenty of top line talent last summer, but there were question marks about depth and a lack of such has led to an especially acute injury crisis in defence. At times head coach Arne Slot has also looked short of options in attack. Beyond that, though, has been a struggle to fit it all together.
Still, there’s clearly a great deal of talent in the side, which is at the root of so much of the frustration around this season’s struggles. In the longer-term, though, goals haven’t changed. This is a club that expects to foght for titles and trophies—and one with four months left to prove Hughes right.
“The job is frankly never done,” he added. “Whether it’s improvements we’ve made from an infrastructure standpoint or continued investment in the squad. At the end of the day this is about winning trophies and making our supporters happy and proud, and we’re going to continue to do that.”
Source: liverpooloffside.sbnation.com
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