{"id":662958,"date":"2025-12-30T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662958\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:54:14","slug":"tyler-morton-on-xabi-alonso-facetime-and-frustrating-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662958\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Morton on Xabi Alonso FaceTime And “Frustrating” Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyler Morton<\/a>\u2018s move to Lyon has so far been an unmitigated success, and he believes his Liverpool exit has been vindicated after a \u201cvery frustrating\u201d time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winning the league while playing for your childhood club, not many can say they\u2019ve done that. <\/p>\n

So while Morton found the experience \u201cincredible,\u201d he was also yearning for more, having not played a single Premier League<\/a> minute across the course of the last campaign.<\/p>\n

Tyler Morton<\/a>\u2019s transfer to Lyon<\/b><\/p>\n

\u2022 Vindicated exit:<\/b> Tyler Morton<\/a><\/b> says his \u00a315m move to Lyon is a success after a \u201cvery frustrating\u201d final year at Anfield
\u2022 Elite education:<\/b> Despite winning the league, Morton felt ready for more minutes after training alongside Ryan Gravenberch<\/a> and Alexis Mac Allister<\/a>
\u2022 Alonso interest:<\/b> The midfielder revealed he spoke to Xabi Alonso regarding a Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> move before Liverpool blocked the transfer<\/p>\n

\"Liverpool<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Mail<\/a>, the Lyon midfielder said: \u201cAs a fan of Liverpool and a boyhood Red, if I had told myself when I was younger that I would be part of a Premier League<\/a>-winning team I would bite your hand off. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would do anything for that. It was incredible, but also it was very frustrating, obviously. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to win so much because it was my club, the club I love. I wanted to be a Liverpool player. So it was difficult when I realised I wanted and needed to leave.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt really ready to play for Liverpool, but there are different managers, different styles. Whatever he wants, of course, playing behind the likes of Ryan (Gravenberch) and Dom (Szoboszlai) and Alexis (Mac Allister), all incredible footballers, so I appreciated that.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, though, at Lyon, I am loving it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SHEFFIELD,<\/p>\n

While things may now be working out for the 23-year-old at Lyon after his \u00a315 million transfer, he was initially linked with a move to Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> in the summer of 2024, before being told he needed to stay to ensure the squad was deep enough.<\/p>\n

Leverkusen had just come off the back of an unbeaten campaign under former Liverpool man Alonso, and Morton recalled: \u201cI got to speak to Alonso on FaceTime which was amazing for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo speak to someone who you idolise so much when you are younger. I used to go to the park with my dad and just play long passes, trying to replicate what Xabi did on the pitch.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it was up to Liverpool that I stayed. I did not get the game time I thought I was going to get, but it was an amazing season for the club. <\/p>\n

\u201cTo be part of a team who won the Premier League<\/a>, it was an incredible feeling. It developed me as a player, training with the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes the answer is not staying in England\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MANCHESTER,<\/p>\n

\u2022 READ:<\/strong> Liverpool\u2019s classy gift to former player after 17 years at Anfield<\/a><\/p>\n

It is a credit to Morton that, despite being strong enough to make it in the Premier League<\/a>, he chose to go abroad and nurture his talents outside of his home comforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes the answer is not staying in England and the Premier League<\/a>, it is to go to a big club in a different country and learn a lot,\u201d the Wirralian explained. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am definitely finding myself. I am really happy here.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy friends and the people I grew up with all understood I was ready to play for a big club. And they have been nothing but great for me. I have friends for life at Liverpool. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI have grown up with Conor Bradley<\/a> since I was 11 or 12, I have known Jarell (Quansah) since I was four or five and I am very, very close with Harvey (Elliott). <\/p>\n

\u201cThey are my closest mates and I go and see them if I am at home. They watch my games when possible and it is lovely to get feedback from players who are playing at such a high level. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is amazing to have friends in football like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyler Morton\u2018s move to Lyon has so far been an unmitigated success, and he believes his Liverpool exit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,147841,79,66257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-662958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-former-players","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tyler-morton","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115809803837556415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}