Liverpool 23/24 — Klopp's Farewell: Full Squad & Ratings

Liverpool 2023/24 season — all 18 players rated, best XI, and how to draft them in 38-0.

Liverpool 2023/24 — Season Story

Liverpool's 2023/24 season will always be remembered for one announcement: on 26 January 2024, Jurgen Klopp revealed he would leave the club at the end of the season, ending the most successful managerial era at Anfield in decades. The campaign that followed was a nine-year love story compressed into four months — a team chasing a farewell quadruple, a club determined to send its manager out on top.

The football in the first half of the season had been superb. A rebuilt midfield — Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai and Ryan Gravenberch all arriving in the summer — gelled quickly, and Liverpool led the league for long stretches of the autumn and winter. The farewell tour began with a League Cup final in February: a 1-0 win over Chelsea at Wembley, settled by Virgil van Dijk's header in the 118th minute, the latest winning goal in a League Cup final.

The quadruple dream lasted into April. Liverpool were still in the FA Cup, the Europa League and the title race when the run-in began, but the schedule — and a defensive injury crisis that left the back line held together by teenagers and midfielders — finally caught up. The Europa League exit to Atalanta and the FA Cup defeat to Manchester United came within days of each other, and the league challenge faded in the spring, with Liverpool finishing third on 82 points.

The season ended with the farewell Klopp deserved but never wanted: a 2-0 win over Wolves at Anfield, the whole stadium singing his name, and a manager who left with the club in better shape than he found it. The 2023/24 squad is the last Liverpool side he built, and it is rated 82.8 OVR in the 38-0 dataset.

The Announcement That Changed the Season

Klopp's video announcement in January, delivered in his usual mix of warmth and bluntness — 'I am running out of energy' — stunned the football world. Liverpool were top of the league at the time, in both cup competitions, and the news turned every remaining match into an occasion. Suddenly every fixture was a tribute, every away end a farewell party.

The reaction inside the squad was telling: rather than collapsing, the players seemed liberated. They won their next seven league games after the announcement, including a dramatic late comeback at Nottingham Forest. The farewell tour had the emotional momentum of a title challenge, and for a while it looked like the perfect script was actually going to be written.

The League Cup Final: A 118th-Minute Goodbye

The first trophy of the farewell season came at Wembley in February, in a final that was goalless until the 118th minute. Chelsea had the better chances in normal time; Liverpool had the better substitutes, and it was one of them — Kostas Tsimikas — whose corner found Van Dijk's head for the winner.

It was Van Dijk's first major trophy as Liverpool captain, and the images of him holding the cup while Klopp danced in front of the travelling support became the defining pictures of the season. For the youngest players in the squad — Jayden Danns, Bobby Clark, James McConnell, all academy products who featured in the final — it was a first trophy at 18 years old, the perfect bridge between the old era and the next one.

The Spring Fade and the True Legacy

The quadruple died in the space of eight days in April. Atalanta won 3-0 at Anfield in the Europa League quarter-final first leg, a performance that exposed Liverpool's tiredness; Manchester United beat them in the FA Cup quarter-final a week later after a replay. The league lead, which had been two points in March, evaporated as the injury list grew.

Yet the 2023/24 season is not remembered as a collapse. It is remembered as the year a great manager said goodbye, the year a new midfield was built, and the year the academy players who would carry the club forward got their first taste of silverware. Klopp left with three Premier League manager-of-the-month awards that season and a standing ovation from the entire league — the true measure of what he had built.

Key Players & Ratings

Alisson Becker, Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah (all 89 OVR) remain the elite core, with Trent Alexander-Arnold (86) the creative force from right-back and Andy Robertson (85) on the left. The new midfield is led by Alexis Mac Allister (84), with Dominik Szoboszlai (82) and Ryan Gravenberch (79) completing the rebuild, and Diogo Jota (83) the most reliable of the forwards.

The squad averages 82.8 OVR — above the 80.7 pool average — and the ratings tell the story of a team in transition: a world-class core still at its peak, a promising midfield, and an attack where Salah (89) carries the star quality. Drafters get elite options in goal, defence and attack, with slightly less depth than the 2019-2022 Liverpool sides.

Full 18-Man Squad

Best XI — Liverpool 2023/24

The highest-rated eleven available from this squad in 38-0:

• GK Alisson Becker 89 OVR
• RB Trent Alexander-Arnold 86 OVR
• RCB Ibrahima Konaté 82 OVR
• LCB Virgil van Dijk 89 OVR
• LB Andy Robertson 85 OVR
• CM Alexis Mac Allister 84 OVR
• CAM Dominik Szoboszlai 82 OVR
• RW Mohamed Salah 89 OVR
• LW Luis Díaz 83 OVR
• LW Cody Gakpo 82 OVR
• ST Diogo Jota 83 OVR

Drafting This Squad in 38-0

The pick order here is simple: Van Dijk or Alisson first — both are among the best in the pool at their positions — Salah second if you need a game-winning winger, and Mac Allister third for midfield control. Alexander-Arnold is the best right-back option in the pool and a genuine pick for any team that values full-back creativity.

In Legend mode, remember that this squad's ratings are top-heavy: the 89-rated core is elite, but the supporting cast drops off faster than the 21/22 version. If you land here, take one of the big three (Van Dijk, Alisson, Salah) and you have made the most of it.

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