Arne Slot arrives at Liverpool with the assist of followers, however not essentially a very long time to implement his model of play within the cut-throat world of the Premier League.
A easy transition from Jurgen Klopp to Slot is what supporters wish to see. Whereas most are keen to just accept a interval of slight inconsistency, the Dutchman is underneath stress to make his gamers click on in a brand new system.
To make sure as easy a transition as attainable, he might want to make full use of pre-season – the membership have already introduced an additional match following the USA tour.
Fortunately, Slot has had a head begin on the gamers, lots of whom gained’t return till late July from worldwide responsibility.
He has been getting ready for his new job and gave some perception into his analysis in his first LFC TV interview.
The brand new head coach defined: “I’ve seen many video games already, I’ve seen many coaching classes as nicely. After all the followers can see the video games, so that they know we now have some superb gamers.
“However I’ve additionally seen a whole lot of coaching classes already and I believe that is the place you convey the tradition, and they’re all the time working laborious – just like the followers see through the recreation.”
With platforms reminiscent of WyScout making it simpler than ever for coaches to look at and analyse from afar, Slot will have already got concepts of which gamers ought to play the place.
The 45-year-old thinks his squad are able to successful greater than 2023/24’s 82 factors, and added: “I believe in the long run we might all like to see Liverpool a bit greater than third place and that is the problem we face now – to construct on from what we now have.
“I’ve all the boldness on this due to the gamers, that we will add a number of issues the place we hopefully can get a bit extra factors than 82, which is important with the likes of Arsenal and Metropolis, to finish up hopefully a bit greater than we did this season.
“There are two issues [why] to do that. After all to get to know extra concerning the gamers as a result of principally you see them through the video games.
“And also you wish to know additionally what the tradition is, how they practice and what they’re used to.
“I believe it’s all the time fascinating if you’re the successor of Jurgen Klopp and in addition Pepijn Lijnders, who does fairly a bit of labor on the coaching pitch, to see what their concepts had been on the coaching pitch.
“I stated this, all of us attempt to steal a bit from one another – principally that is completed by wanting on the video games however in case you can see the best way they practice, that may solely assist you.
“Let one factor be clear: the gamers will not be going to get all the identical workout routines once more – we’ll implement our personal issues. Nevertheless it’s fascinating to see what they did additionally through the week.”
As he alluded to there, Slot already has good information of the Premier League.
Whereas he was creating in Holland, Klopp and Pep Guardiola had been battling it out on the prime of the English recreation, one thing the brand new coach was watching from overseas.
“I believe this has been an period the place everyone seemed on the Barcelona aspect of Xavi, Iniesta and Messi and the rivalry there was between Actual Madrid with Cristiano Ronaldo being there,” added Slot.
“And I believe when that got here to an finish, the brand new rivalry in European soccer got here due to Jurgen.
“He managed Liverpool and Pep Guardiola, in fact, managed Manchester Metropolis and I believe for everybody who loves soccer it was a improbable period to look at the each of them getting the perfect out of one another.
“Yeah, I’ve seen a whole lot of video games of Liverpool, a whole lot of video games of Metropolis as nicely, and if you dwell in Europe the Premier League might be the nicest league to comply with.”
Whereas Guardiola won’t be round at Man Metropolis for an excessive amount of longer, Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal are solely enhancing and Slot may need to interrupt 90 factors to win the title with Liverpool.
