“We didn’t care about football” – Andy Robertson opens up on the impact of Diogo Jota’s death

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Andy Robertson has opened up about the extent of the impact that Diogo Jota’s death had on the Liverpool squad last season.The Portuguese forward died in a car crash in July 2025 which also claimed the life of his brother Andre Silva, prompting an outpouring of grief not just on Merseyside and in their hometown of Gondomar, but throughout the world of football.The Reds went on to endure a difficult season on the pitch as they went from reigning Premier League champions to a lowly fifth-place finish and lost 19 matches in all competitions, a decline which cost Arne Slot his job as head coach.Robertson speaks about the impact of Jota’s deathSpeaking as a guest on the latest episode of Stick to Football, Robertson explained how, in the months after the tragedy, he and his Liverpool teammates struggled with retaining the same ‘edge’ as in previous campaigns.The left-back (now with Tottenham Hotspur) said: “It’s difficult to describe or talk about it, because what we went through was horrendous. If I’m talking about football, when it took them months to settle in, because we were like ghosts.

We didn’t care about football because we just lost one of our best mates in the changing room.“All footballers have that edge, don’t we, and I think when you lose that edge, sometimes you can’t perform to your best. I think last season we lost the edge.

When I look back on it now, I think we lost that determination a little bit, because I know at times we were going, ‘What’s the point?’“Look at what his family are going through, look at his kids, but we were grieving. For us it was incredibly difficult.” “He was our mate.