Liverpool 24/25 — Slot's Champions: Full Squad & Ratings

Liverpool 2024/25 season — all 18 players rated, best XI, and how to draft them in 38-0.

Liverpool 2024/25 — Season Story

The hardest job in football — replacing Jurgen Klopp — was given to Arne Slot, a Dutch coach who had never managed outside the Netherlands, and he made it look easy. Slot's Liverpool won the 2024/25 Premier League at the first attempt, sealing the title with a 5-1 thrashing of Tottenham at Anfield with games to spare, and finishing the season with a record-equalling 20th English league championship.

Slot's genius was in the details rather than the revolution. He kept the attacking identity Klopp had built but added control: Liverpool dominated possession more, pressed more selectively, and conceded fewer chances. The changes were subtle — a tweak to the build-up, a new role for Ryan Gravenberch as the deepest midfielder, more freedom for Mohamed Salah — but the results were transformative.

Salah produced one of the great individual seasons in Premier League history, winning the Golden Boot with 27 league goals and adding a record number of assists from the right wing. At 32, he was the most decisive player in the division, dragging Liverpool through the autumn months when the rest of the attack struggled for form. Van Dijk, his contract situation unresolved all season, played like a man with nothing left to prove; Alisson, when fit, was still the best goalkeeper in the league.

The title was effectively settled between February and April, when Liverpool won nine of ten league games while their challengers stumbled. The Tottenham game at Anfield, a 5-1 statement with the trophy in sight, became the image of the season — Salah scoring twice, the Kop singing his name, and a manager still in his first year celebrating his first major trophy. Liverpool finished on 91 points, nine clear of Arsenal, and the 20th title drew them level with Manchester United's record.

Slot's Silent Revolution

There was no dressing-room upheaval, no tactical powerpoint and no wave of signings — Liverpool's entire summer transfer business before the season was one goalkeeper, Giorgi Mamardashvili, who was loaned straight back out. Slot trusted the squad Klopp had left him, changed the coaching methods, and let the football do the talking.

The difference was visible within weeks: Liverpool's defensive record was the best in the league, their xG against the lowest, and their passing far more controlled. Gravenberch, converted from an attacking midfielder into a number 6, became one of the revelations of the season, while the full-backs pushed higher and the team learned to suffocate opponents rather than out-run them. It was the same players, playing differently — the hallmark of an elite coach.

Salah's Golden Season

Mohamed Salah's 2024/25 season was a farewell statement in every sense: 27 league goals, the Golden Boot, a record number of assists for a wide player, and a series of match-winning performances that carried Liverpool through the winter. He scored against every club in the division except one, and his consistency was staggering — no two-game stretch without a goal involvement all season.

The contract saga that ran alongside it — Salah, Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold all entering the final months of their deals — somehow made his performances more remarkable. Week after week he produced the kind of numbers that would have made him the league's MVP in any season, and by April the question was no longer whether Liverpool would win the title but whether the club could afford to lose him. In the 38-0 dataset he is rated 90 OVR, the joint-highest attacker in the pool.

The 20th Title

Liverpool's 20th English championship ended a three-year wait and drew them level with Manchester United's record 20 — a number that had seemed untouchable when United won their 20th in 2013. The significance was not lost on the club: the title was celebrated with the number 20 everywhere, and the record-equalling status gave the season a historical weight beyond the trophy itself.

The celebrations at Anfield after the Tottenham win were the release of a decade of what-ifs — 97 points without a title, a quadruple just missed, a pandemic season without fans. The 20th title, won in a first manager's first year, felt like the start of something as much as the completion of something, and the 2024/25 squad will always be the team that made the number 20 real.

Key Players & Ratings

Mohamed Salah (90 OVR) is the headline — Golden Boot winner and the highest-rated attacker in this squad. Virgil van Dijk (89) was the defensive captain of the season, Alisson (88) the elite goalkeeper, and Ryan Gravenberch (85) the surprise star of the midfield. Trent Alexander-Arnold (86) and Alexis Mac Allister (85) complete a remarkably strong core.

The squad averages 82.8 OVR, comfortably above the 80.7 pool average, with genuine depth: Ibrahima Konate (84), Luis Diaz (84), Cody Gakpo (83), Dominik Szoboszlai (83) and Diogo Jota (82) would all start for most teams in the draft. The one weak spot is the striker position — Darwin Nunez is rated just 79 — which makes the attacking hierarchy worth knowing.

Full 18-Man Squad

Best XI — Liverpool 2024/25

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

• GK Alisson Becker 88 OVR
• RB Trent Alexander-Arnold 86 OVR
• RCB Ibrahima Konaté 84 OVR
• LCB Virgil van Dijk 89 OVR
• LB Andy Robertson 82 OVR
• CDM Ryan Gravenberch 85 OVR
• CM Alexis Mac Allister 85 OVR
• CAM Dominik Szoboszlai 83 OVR
• RW Mohamed Salah 90 OVR
• LW Luis Díaz 84 OVR
• LW Cody Gakpo 83 OVR

Drafting This Squad in 38-0

This is a premium landing with a clear hierarchy. Salah is the first-choice pick for almost any team — 90-rated wingers win drafts. Van Dijk is the defensive option, Alisson the goalkeeping one, and Gravenberch or Mac Allister the midfield value. Alexander-Arnold remains the best creative right-back in the pool.

In Legend mode, one trap: the squad's striker rating (Nunez, 79) is far below the rest of the team, so if you land here needing a number 9, the honest options are Jota (82) or Gakpo (83) playing through the middle — or you accept the weakness and take Salah anyway, because his attacking output outweighs any positional need.

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