Andy Robertson has said Liverpool’s players kept returning to the same unanswerable thought in the weeks after losing Diogo Jota: “well what’s the point?”

The 32-year-old was speaking on the Stick to Football podcast, in comments carried by The Independent, and his answer on how the tragedy touched the squad was unusually raw for a footballer discussing form. Jota died in a car crash near Zamora in north-western Spain on 3 July 2025 alongside his younger brother André Silva, just over a week after his wedding to his long-term partner Rute Cardoso.

“You’ve just lost one of your best mates in the changing room. All footballers, we have that edge don’t we? And I think last season we lost the edge, when I look back on it now,” Robertson told the podcast.

“We lost that determination a little bit because there were times where we were going like, well what’s the point?”

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New signings arrived at a heartbroken club

Robertson’s most striking passage was about the players Liverpool signed in the window that opened days after Jota’s funeral. The club spent heavily that summer, and the integration of the new arrivals became one of the season’s defining sub-plots.

“They’d signed for big money and it took them months to settle in because we didn’t care about football. That was the truth of it.”

He also described the whiplash of standing at Jota’s wedding one week and seeing his family in mourning the next.

“Seeing him on the happiest day of his life and then the next week you’re seeing his family torn apart.”

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A title defence that unravelled

Liverpool started 2025-26 as champions and were widely expected to defend the title. Instead, they lost nine of twelve matches between September and November and eventually finished fifth. Arne Slot, who had led the club to the title in his first season, was dismissed.

Liverpool appointed Andoni Iraola as head coach on 4 June 2026, tasked with rebuilding a dressing room that Robertson’s account suggests spent much of last season in mourning rather than in training.

Robertson himself is no longer part of that project. His Liverpool contract expired on 30 June 2026 and he joined Tottenham on a free transfer the next day, ending a nine-year spell at Anfield.

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