VIDEO SHOWS: LIVERPOOL PRESS CONFERENCE / FILE FOOTAGE OF TRAINING SESSION RESENDING WITH FULL SCRIPT SHOWS: LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (OCTOBER 31, 2025) (NICHE MEDIA – Access all) 1. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVERPOOL MANAGER ARNE SLOT SAYING: "In the end phase of the injury, things can slow down a bit and things can go faster. Let's wait and see where they are. But like I said, Ryan (Gravenberch) trained with us for the first time yesterday, will train with us today and then we're going to make the call if he can, if he's able to start, yes or no. And the other two (Alexander Isak and Alisson) are probably 99.9% sure not in the squad Saturday." 2. WHITE FLASH 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVERPOOL MANAGER ARNE SLOT SAYING: "We missed nothing, so I'm happy that you asked this question. I'm completely happy with the team, with all the quality we have and I'm also completely convinced by the strategy and the policy we have. But that makes it the issue, if you could talk about an issue, is that not all of them have had a proper pre-season or have been injured during the season. So then when three or four are injured, you go back to 16 players. "So I am a firm believer in the fact that 20-21 players are enough, but you have to keep them fit, as we did last season. And we are struggling a bit more to keep them fit for, in my opinion, obvious reasons, because Alex is a great example of this, came to us, I think, the 1st of September. A few others have missed out on pre-season, a few others have had their injuries in pre-season. So it has been more difficult than last season to keep them all available. And if then a few of them are not available, then it comes down a lot towards the same players. And maybe last season we were more lucky, and now we're a bit more unlucky. Again, no excuses for our results before people are going to say this again." 4. WHITE FLASH 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVERPOOL MANAGER ARNE SLOT, TALKING ABOUT PLAYING OUT FROM THE BACK, SAYING: "It does go against my beliefs, but I've won games in the past, so we're talking about (Manchester) City away. That went maybe against my beliefs, but it was necessary to play it over there like that in the second half. So I would be more than open to adapt in certain situations. But I don't think the story is, at least in my opinion, is that we concede chance after chance after chance, and that we are too open or that it's actually absolutely not like this every single game. Maybe apart from Palace, because in the first half, we could have been 2 or 3-0 down. And maybe the Brentford game. I think all the other games, we deserved much more than we got and we hardly conceded a chance, even this week, with the team I put out, which played for the first time together. I think they only conceded three big chances. Unfortunately, all three went in. But that's because they were big, and that they weren't chances they were big chances. So I don't see us conceding a lot of chances, so I don't see a reason to change our playing style completely. But yeah, we need to do better in not conceding goals, that's for sure." 6. WHITE FLASH 7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVERPOOL MANAGER ARNE SLOT SAYING: "Yeah, the thing that gives me the most confidence is the quality of the players we are having and the amount of chances these players are still creating. So this will eventually always lead to these players scoring more goals than we've done until now. And we have to address certain other things, but if I talk about that, if I'm speaking about what we have to improve, people then tell me I'm using excuses. So maybe it's better now just to say we need to address certain things to do better." LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, UK (FILE – OCTOBER 21, 2025) (NICHE MEDIA – Access all) 8. MOHAMED SALAH AND FEDERICO CHIESA WALK OUT FOR TRAINING SESSION 9. FLORIAN WIRTZ, CURTIS JONES AND DOMINIK SZOBOSZLAI 10. MANAGER ARNE SLOT 11. SALAH ALONGSIDE JOE GOMEZ 12. CHIESA AND WIRTZ 13. PAN FROM VIRGIL VAN DIJK TO OTHER PLAYERS 14. SLOT WITH ASSISTANT STORY: Liverpool head into Saturday's (November 1) Premier League clash with Aston Villa desperate to halt a miserable run of six defeats in their last seven outings across all competitions, but manager Arne Slot faces a selection headache. Injured striker Alexander Isak and goalkeeper Alisson have yet to return to training, and Slot told reporters on Friday (October 31) he was "99.9% sure (they are) not in the squad on Saturday". Midfielder Ryan Gravenberch could feature after training on Thursday (October 30) in a bit of good news for Slot's reigning champions whose slump has them seven points behind league leaders Arsenal in seventh in the standings and facing a string of tough games. Villa have won their last four league matches and are one place behind Slot's team in the table, but level on points. Liverpool then host LaLiga leaders Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday (November 4) before travelling to fifth-place Manchester City on November 9. The Merseyside team's troublesome start, which included an ugly fourth-round League Cup exit on Wednesday (October 29) in a 3-0 defeat by Crystal Palace, comes despite the club spending 446 million pounds ($599 million) on new recruits in the close season. However, Slot said he was pleased with his squad. (Production: Andy Ragg)
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