Last season's title holders cannot escape chaos – even those who left Liverpool in the summer. A powerful interview sums it all up.
Liverpool suffered a fourth successive Premier League defeat on Saturday as Brentford beat them 3-2. It destroyed the goodwill the Reds had built up after their 5-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt and sent Liverpool back to where they were.
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The fall this season was dramatic and unlike anything we've actually seen. The club spent huge amounts of money improving the title-winning team, ruining what had brought the trophy with several massive signings.
Only now everything fell apart. Incredibly, even Johnny Heitinga, who left his job Arne SlotThe assistant player, who will join Ajax as head coach in the summer, could not escape the “chaos”.
He is struggling for consistency in the Netherlands, although Ajax did move up to third with a 3-2 win at Twente on Sunday. But Heitinga gave a fiery interview afterward, telling ESPN that they made life much more difficult for him and his team.
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“I'm just [doing this interview] due to contractual obligations we have with ESPN. You published an article that contains so much untruth. I think so, and we think it’s bad,” Heitinga said. ESPN.
“This untruth creates chaos. When players come to me and say, 'That's not said at all.' Then an unnecessary situation is created. Especially because of an article that, in fact, for the most part, makes no sense.”
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Ajax's struggle under Heitinga
Ajax's struggles this season have been particularly noticeable for Liverpool. First of all, because they have two players on loan – Viteslav Jaros and James McConnell.
McConnell in particular ran an incredibly difficult campaign so far. He barely features, several players were selected before him and everyone was surprised that it was signed at all.
But what's really strange about all this? is that history repeats itself. Last season, Liverpool saw something similar: Pep Lijnders, Jurgen Klopp's assistant, took over at Red Bull Salzburg and immediately struck deals with the Reds.
