Arne Slot has been working with Liverpool’s gamers for over a month and there was loads of constructive noise popping out of the dressing room.
If you weren’t nicely versed in Dutch soccer you might be forgiven for having little earlier information of Slot, who earlier than taking the Anfield job had solely labored in his native Netherlands.
Now greater than a month into his Liverpool tenure, we now have not been brief on gamers talking positively concerning the adjustments he has applied.
We’ve got already had a style of what’s in retailer all through the pre-season fixtures to date and we are going to proceed to see his model develop as extra first-team gamers are launched.
However we are able to take loads of confidence from the squad, who’re evidently having fun with working with the 45-year-old if their phrases are something to go by.
Curtis Jones: ‘Centre-mids the guts of the group’
“He’s wonderful, truly,” Jones instructed reporters in July. “It’s in all probability the happiest I’ve been when it comes to a method of play that fits me and the lads that we now have in our group.
“It’s a transparent plan. The coaching, he’s absolutely concerned, he coaches us loads and he’s massive on the best of particulars.
“The centre-mids had been at all times lads who had been runners and extra disciplined. The ideas are the identical, however I really feel that now the centre-mids are going to be extra the guts of the group.
“Mo remains to be going to get his targets, however when it comes to our build-up, it’s how snug and calm we now have to be and play extra as a group.
“We’re not in a rush to assault, we wish to have the ball and break groups down and that provides us an opportunity, if we give the ball approach, we are able to go and press.
“I really feel prior to now it was a rush to get the ball again and it was just a little bit too direct, up and down, up and down.
“Now it’s going to be the place he needs us to have all of the ball and simply utterly kill groups.”
Tyler Morton: “Whole Soccer”
“He loves Whole Soccer,” Morton defined. “He’s are available and it’s a method lots of gamers love.
“If you happen to don’t love the model he performs, you shouldn’t be a footballer actually!
“It’s Whole Soccer and it’s each midfielder’s dream. You could possibly see it [vs. Arsenal] within the triangles that had been performed; he’s massive on triangles they usually had been [working].”
Fabio Carvalho – “Play via the thirds”
“I’d in all probability say enjoying extra via the midfield,” Carvalho mentioned of Slot’s model. “Gamers like Curtis, Harvey and Szobo as nicely – we’ve bought the gamers to take action.
“Enjoying via them and getting me, Mo and the gamers increased up like Jots on the ball as nicely.
“With the ability to play via the thirds is what we wish to do and what the supervisor needs to be our id.”
Ryan Gravenberch: “He actually needs to play soccer”
“Actually good impressions,” Gravenberch mentioned after his arrival throughout the US tour. “He actually needs to play soccer and me personally as nicely.
“So, comfortable that he’s right here and comfortable that we are able to prepare and play.”
Alexis Mac Allister – “Loads of optimism”
“I had talks with the brand new coach throughout the Copa America, we talked just a little concerning the membership and about what I noticed and so forth,” Mac Allister mentioned previous to becoming a member of again up with the squad.
“You possibly can inform he’s a really educated technician. He spoke to me very nicely.
“And I talked with Marcos Senesi who performed for him at Feyenoord, and he spoke very nicely of him.
“So I believe there’s lots of optimism about what this season goes to be like for Liverpool, past the actual fact an important supervisor like Jurgen has left us.
“We’ve got an important group and we imagine the brand new coach can assist us obtain lots of issues.”
Jarell Quansah – “Much more construction”
“There’s lots of the identical messages, however on the similar time, I believe there’s a lot that’s totally different,” Quansah began.
“Much more construction after we’re in possession, just a few good passages of play, you’ll be able to see lots of patterns we’re attempting to get used to essentially.
“We’re working tirelessly on the pitch, and on the coaching pitch particularly.
“There’s been lots of double periods that it’s simply a lot tactical work and a lot we have to soak up. We’re doing that, and hopefully, little by little, it’ll come.”
