Richard Hughes has outlined one explicit issue which ‘attracted’ Liverpool in direction of appointing Arne Slot as their new head coach.
The 45-year-old has been given the appreciable job of making an attempt to construct upon the legacy that Jurgen Klopp created at Anfield, though he arrives on Merseyside with a wonderful fame from his work at Feyenoord.
The Dutchman gave his first press convention in his new function on Friday morning, with the membership’s lately put in sporting director additionally fielding questions from the media.
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When requested concerning the choice to rent Slot, Hughes outlined (by way of Liverpool Echo): “The taking part in model attracted us. On all of the metrics, Arne’s Feyenoord workforce got here out rather well – attributes we might welcome right here at Liverpool.
“It depends upon the gamers you’ve gotten. This model of taking part in that Arne has been profitable with is essentially the most engaging to look at, in my view. There’s a responsibility right here to play that sort of soccer.”
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Slot was famend at Feyenoord for his ‘high-energy, hard-pressing and possession-centric attacking ways’ (Alex Keble, premierleague.com), with the primary two phrases particularly typically related to Klopp at Liverpool.
His former membership tended to strike a perfect steadiness between defence and assault, with the Rotterdam outfit progressively scoring extra and conceding much less all through his three seasons on the membership. Their Eredivisie document was 76-34 in his first season in cost, 81-30 in 2022/23 after which 92-26 final time period (Transfermarkt).
Whereas the Premier League will clearly be a notable step up in high quality, these figures recommend that the 45-year-old’s groups can thrill their supporters with loads of objectives with out being overly cavalier and having their fantastic attacking output negated by a lax defence.
Liverpool had been joyously free-scoring in Klopp’s first three years at Anfield particularly, though it took that size of time for him to instil the defensive fortitude which’d in the end spine our largest successes below him.
If Slot can get the steadiness proper for the Reds, similar to he did at Feyenoord, then we might be in for some superb soccer below the Dutchman and – most significantly – profitable soccer.
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