Liverpool players ‘stopped caring about football’ after Diogo Jota death, admits Andy Robertson

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The Scotland international, who left Liverpool this summer to join Tottenham, explaining how the whole club was ‘heartbroken’ throughout a grief-stricken campaign where they simply stopped caring about football. ‘It’s difficult to describe or talk about, really, because what we went through, it was horrendous,’ Robertson told the Stick to Football Podcast. ‘Say if I’m talking about the new signings, they’re coming into a club that is heartbroken. Jota won the league title just months before his death (Picture: Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via Getty Images) ‘They’re trying, and that’s where I felt so sorry for these guys because they’d signed and they were signing for big money and all that, if I’m talking about football.

Ask Metro Use AI to go deeper into the stories you care about – powered by Metro and trusted publications. ‘That’s why I probably have so much sympathy in football terms towards the new signings, because I think they came into a team that was, like… we were elite in everything that we did for years. ‘And maybe we couldn’t be that because of what had happened. That’s the way I would do it.’ Jota’s absence was felt throughout last season (Picture: (Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images) He continued: ‘I think all footballers, we all have that edge, don’t we?

And I think last season we lost the edge. ‘I think when I look back on it now, I think we lost that determination a little bit and things like that because I know at times we were maybe going, “You know what, what’s the point?” ‘Like look at what Jota’s family are going through. The week before he died, I was at his wedding.