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British journalist Piers Morgan, who is an Arsenal fan, commented on Jurgen Klopp's resignation as Liverpool's head coach in his own style.

"I don't think winning one league title in eight years makes you a great man for the Premier League," Morgan wrote on his Twitter page.

Earlier, Klopp announced that he would leave Liverpool at the end of this season. Since 2015, the German specialist has won the English Premier League, the FA Cup, the FA Cup, the FA Super Cup, the Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA World Cup with the Reds.

Oleksandriya head coach Ruslan Rotan commented on the draw in the Ukrainian Premier League match against Veres on Matchday 29.

"Oleksandriya is a team that plays the most spectacular football in this championship. This is a fact. We score a lot and concede a lot. The fans like it. But this is a problem for the coaching staff.

The beginning of the match was ours. We understood that this match was like the last for Veres. Therefore, it was important not to lose to the opponent in the mood. After a quick goal, the guys decided that the match was over. And this again created problems for us. This is unacceptable and we will talk about it again with the team. We must strive to score more and close the game.

Before the break, our team did not have a leader on the pitch. He appeared after the break. We had a serious talk in the dressing room and got together. I liked the second half. There were problems with implementation. But skill and class are things that need to be developed in training. We were able to win back and wanted to win. This is positive. But we need to concentrate better on the game and strive to score more.

In general, this season is a time of rebuilding for us. A year of renewal. Fourteen players left the team at the start of the championship. We are working hard. The guys want to develop. But it takes time to put on a game. There is progress. We did not get ten points during the season for various reasons. We are on the right track. And the results of this work will be shown next season," said Rotan.

Vorskla's Vice President Oleh Lysak has expressed the club's position on the future work with Serhiy Dolgansky as head coach.

"We plan to extend Serhiy Dolgansky's contract. We clearly understand the situation he is in. For 1.5 years we worked with Skrypnyk, he had his own schemes, his own vision of football. We made the squad exclusively for him. This winter, we managed to sign 3 players who joined the first team.

Our task will be to trust the coach. He still needs to gain experience, but we have to give him carte blanche to form the squad the way he sees it," Lysak said in a comment to the UPL.TV telegram channel.

"Manchester City" became the triumphant of the championship of England season 2023/2024.

The team of Josep Guardiola in the match of the last round of the APL at home confidently defeated West Ham with a score of 3:1, securing the first place in the standings at the end of the season. "Arsenal", despite the victory in a parallel match over "Everton", finished only second. Mikel Arteta's wards are only two points behind.

As a result, "Manchester City" won the gold medals of the English championship for the fourth time in a row, setting a record for the number of consecutive championships. Previously, no team has won the APL title four times in a row

Also note that another club from Manchester - United at the end of the season showed the worst result for the last 34 years. Erik ten Hague's team finished only 8th in the standings, failing to qualify for the European Cup next season. The last chance to fight for a trip to the European Cup at United will be in the FA Cup final against Manchester City. In case of victory, the "reds" will be able to get into the Europa League.

Recall, the final match of the FA Cup "Manchester City" - "Manchester United" will be held on Saturday, 25 May, in London at the stadium "Wembley". The kick-off is at 17:00 Kyiv time.

Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta said that in the future he would like to work in his homeland, Spain.

"I always thought I would return one day. I love my country very much: our way of life, communication, culture. So I always keep it in the back of my mind. But I'm happy here, I like the way people treat me and I'm really happy with my job. Despite this, I think I will return someday, I'm not going to spend my whole life away from home," Arteta said during a speech at the Spanish Embassy.

Rukh Lviv head coach Vitaliy Ponomaryov talks about his team's match against Dynamo Kyiv in the final round of the Ukrainian league to be played this Saturday in the capital of Galicia.

"We have to go out and play against Dynamo the way we have been playing throughout the championship. We will see the result of the match and how it will develop after the final whistle. "Rukh will not be specially tuning up for this game, because the guys know what kind of football they have to show.

The guys see the standings themselves and realise that they can get into the European competitions. They set themselves the highest goals and want to achieve them. These are new feelings for them and they still need to get used to these challenges. But this shouldn't affect their performance, because on the pitch they must demonstrate the football that Rukh promotes. I always ask the players to ignore this pressure and play their usual game. This team is currently in the process of formation and I am grateful to the guys for the work they have done.

We are not changing our strategy and we are grateful to the club's founder and management for being able to stick to it. I would like to thank them for not putting additional pressure on the guys and letting all club processes develop gradually. Our task is to build a competitive team and fight for victory in every game.

Of course, we also want to be as high as possible in the standings. If Rukh can get into the European competitions, we will be only too happy. If we analyse our squad, we have five players who made their UPL debut only this season and are showing a good game. We are currently satisfied with the way the team and our players are developing and the results they are showing," Ponomaryov was quoted as saying by Rukh's official website.

As a reminder, Rukh (49 points) is currently fighting with Dnipro-1 (49) and Polissia (47) for fourth place in the standings, which gives them the right to play in the Conference League next season.

Ukrainian defender of English "Bournemouth" Ilya Zabarny shared his impressions of the completed club season-2023/24.

"I want to say thank you to everyone for this season, it was incredible! Next stop - the Euros!", - wrote Zabarny on his page in the social network Instagram.

We would add that in the completed season the Ukrainian defender played 42 matches for Bournemouth in all tournaments and with the exception of only one match was invariably in the starting line-up of his team. Zabarnyy scored one goal.

Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih goalkeeper Andriy Klishchuk shared his impressions of his team's bronze medal win in the current Ukrainian championship and what he expects from the next season.

"The emotions are very cool, we are very happy. Because we have been fighting all this year, trying to win a place in the top 3. We are all very happy, so now we are gradually thinking about the European Cups, preparing for them. I am sure we will succeed and next season everyone will be talking about Kryvbas.

Any wishes for your rivals in the European Cup season? All of them are very serious opponents, so it will be interesting to play with anyone," Klishchuk's official website quotes Kryvbas as saying.

On Monday, 20 May, Barcelona head coach Xavi and the club's president Joan Laporta are to meet to determine the Spanish specialist's future at the club, Mundo Deportivo reports.

According to the source, it is assumed that the meeting will also be attended by Barcelona's sporting director Deco and the Catalan club's president's trustee Alejandro Echevarria. As a reminder, at the end of January, Javi Hernandez announced his departure from Barcelona, but later there were rumours that the Spaniard might stay in the Catalan capital.

Dnipro 1 head coach Yuriy Maksimov has spoken about the dim prospects of his club.

"Back in winter we had information that there were some questions on our future. You understand that the team depends on one person. Even then everyone already understood everything. But we agreed with the guys that we will finish the championship together.

We still do not know what will happen next. But about 70 per cent of our players have already agreed with other clubs and signed contracts with them. And now, you understand that someone is afraid to get injured, because someone already has a shirt of another team under the Dnipro-1 shirt," Maksimov said in the Youtube channel FootballHub.

Commenting on his team's 2-0 victory over Chornomorets Odesa in yesterday's match of the 29th round of the Ukrainian championship, Rukh Lviv defender Roman Didyk stressed the importance of the match against Dynamo Kyiv in the final round of the championship to be held this Saturday in Lviv.

"It was an important game and Rukh wanted to get a result, just as Chornomorets was fighting for points. We are glad that we managed to win and please the fans.

We can say that the upcoming match with Kyiv is a kind of final that will determine the team's fate in the standings. It will be one of the most important matches in the history of Rukh and each of the players, because we are a young team. We will all come out and give our all to get a positive result for us," Didyk's words were quoted by Rukh's official website.

It will be recalled that Rukh (49 points) is currently fighting with Dnipro-1 (49) and Polissia (47) for fourth place in the standings, which gives it the right to play in the Conference League next season.

Real Madrid head coach Carlo Ancelotti had a short conversation with his team's Ukrainian goalkeeper Andriy Lunin in which he denied media reports that Thibaut Courtois will play in the Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund, Defensa Central reports.

"It's not true that I've already made my decision. I need you to be at your best for the Champions League final. For the 90 minutes of the game, or for the 10. Without you we wouldn't be in the final," the mentor told the Ukrainian goalkeeper, claims the source.