Liverpool's tough season after Jota's death: football meant nothing

It is often said that football is the most important of the least important things, partly because when life hits hard, the ball takes a back seat. The whole city of Liverpool can speak at length about that. It has been more than a year since a tragic car accident claimed the life of Diogo Jota, one of the players most loved by the city and the dressing room. And life has not been the same since.

Liverpool entered the summer of 2025 in full celebration mode. They had just won the Premier League against all expectations, and that euphoria was cut short when Diogo Jota crashed along with his brother in Zamora. The news devastated the entire sporting world, but above all Liverpool and Portugal, which had only a few days earlier won the Nations League against Spain.

After the fatal event, Liverpool had to force themselves to focus on the pitch. The transfer market was very busy for the Reds, who raised excitement with a huge investment, but the season ended in huge disappointment. Now, with a new campaign already beginning, Andrew Robertson, a Liverpool legend who left the club after his contract expired in the summer, has spoken for the first time in depth about how the dressing room experienced the first season without Jota.

"Because we had just lost one of our best friends in the dressing room… we had lost our spark, and we could no longer perform at our best. When I think about it nowadays, at certain moments we would say to ourselves, ‘Deep down, what’s the point of this? Look at what Jotsy’s family is going through, look at his children,’" the Scottish full-back admits in The Overlap.

Of the high-profile signings Liverpool made, few lived up to expectations. But Robertson excuses them: "It was like they were arriving at a club with a broken heart. I felt so sorry for those boys, because they had signed for colossal amounts. It took them months to adapt because we didn’t give a damn about football, that’s the truth."

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.