If Liverpool successfully defended the Premier League championship, Arne Slot will set up a feat that even Jurgen Klopp has not yet done.
Still waiting for 9 months to see if that “if” happens or not. But right now, the bookmakers considered Liverpool to be the leading candidate for the championship with the ratio of 4 to eat 7. Do not argue that the Slot's army is not the strongest team in England.
* Liverpool vs Bournemouth football judgment, 02h00 on 16/8
In fact, Slot was “over” Klopp in helping Liverpool win the Premier League in the first season of sitting on the head of the coach. Meanwhile, the German coach took nearly 5 years to relieve the national championship for the red shirt. Of course, Slot inherits the valuable heritage that Klopp left – an experienced and classy collective. But the inheritance does not mean that success automatically comes. Football history has witnessed many coaches failing despite taking over the championship teams. Slot not only maintains strength, but also upgraded and shaped a Liverpool style.
Jurgen Klopp once created a legendary Liverpool with the Gegenpressing philosophy. However, it was a long -term road of effort. Klopp focused on building a foundation, but that made his Liverpool lack flexibility. And that's why Liverpool is difficult to stand on the peak. The storms of injury and the variation of the tournament have made Liverpool difficult to adapt and maintain their peak.
Meanwhile, Slot promotes flexibility and transformation. The first season in Liverpool, Slot has reduced Klopp's imprint with a gameplay style, increasing the control of the match and heavy in pragmatic. And the bigger changes will take place in the second season, especially after Liverpool replaced blood nearly half of the official squad. But there will be no philosophy called Slot here. The style of the Dutch coach towards flexibility, adjustment and adaptation. Even Liverpool will probably return to Klopp's Gegenpressing in appropriate times.
It was Slop's style that helped him shorten the time to reach success. The Dutch coach did not wait for Florian Wirtz to integrate but find all solutions for the German star to promote as quickly as possible, by testing Wirtz in many positions in the early series of friendship. Not for no reason that both Hugo Ekitike and Jeremie Frimpong, Milos Kerkez integrated quickly with the common game. Because Slot did not force them to adapt, instead he adjusted the music so that every musical instrument was rhythmic.
Meanwhile, Jurgen Klopp is often more time -consuming for new contracts. The Fabinho, Andy Robertson lost the first season to learn Liverpool and then became a smooth link.
Arne Slot still has a lot of thorns ahead. But he was facing a historic opportunity to become a rare coach to win two consecutive seasons. In the Premier League era, only Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola made this miracle. The great Jurgen Klopp is also helpless with this.
And Arne Slot has the opportunity to enter the temple of legends. Liverpool threw £ 300 million into transfer not for fun.
