Liverpool made their annual Christmas go to to the Alder Hey Youngsters’s Hospital on Thursday, with Arne Slot and his gamers greeting households and sharing items.
Yearly, the Liverpool squad make the journey to Alder Hey to shock kids and their households forward of Christmas.
Slot and his gamers headed to the youngsters’s hospital, situated in West Derby, on Thursday, giving items and collaborating in varied actions with these receiving therapy.
The gamers handed out presents, performed video games and signed shirts for the kids on the hospital, with it clearly having an impression on Slot and his squad.
“In case you take a look at how passionate the individuals are that work right here, how a lot they wish to assist everybody right here to present them the absolute best time, it’s particular to see,” Slot mirrored.
“[In football] we expect we do one thing that’s particular or that’s vital, however we don’t.
“In case you come to a spot like this, then you definitely see what’s actually vital, what’s actually particular work to do.”
Virgil van Dijk mentioned: “I do know it’s a pleasant shock for all of them, Alder Hey is an incredible hospital with wonderful folks that work right here.
“It’s a particular place the place clearly hopefully everybody will get higher.”
And Mo Salah added: “The very first thing is at all times that it reminds us to be thankful for our well being.
“You see the individuals who endure from stuff and we simply take that with no consideration. It offers me issues inside me to remain humble and be thankful for our well being.”
Not each youngster was a Liverpool fan, with younger Archie a die-hard Wrexham supporter, and Curtis Jones joked when he entered a room decked out in Wrexham merchandise:
“We’ve bought a giant job on our palms apparently!”
“To see slightly lady like that who’s slightly bit extra grown however with an enormous smile on her face,” mentioned new dad Jones after assembly one other younger lady, “it’s a tough time, however you see issues like that and it cheers you up.”
There have been smiles all spherical because the Liverpool gamers made their manner via the hospital, with hope that each youngster enjoys their Christmas and makes a full restoration.
