Hague. The present Dutch coach of Feyenoord, Arne Slot, confirmed this Friday in a press convention that he would be the new coach of Liverpool, changing Jürgen Klopp, for the brand new season.
“There isn’t a official announcement but, however I can affirm that I would be the coach there subsequent season,” Arne Slot informed reporters, two days earlier than the ultimate matchday of the Dutch league towards Excelsior Rotterdam.
Slot, 45, is taken into account a normal bearer of offensive soccer within the purest Dutch fashion. He has solely skilled within the Netherlands, so his transfer to Liverpool will probably be his first in one of many main European leagues.
His identify was not the primary to flow into as a attainable alternative for Klopp, who earlier this 12 months had introduced his departure from Liverpool, a membership he joined in October 2015, claiming to be “missing power” to proceed.
At first, Spaniard Xabi Alonso, former Liverpool participant and sensation of the European season by making Bayer Leverkusen champion of Germany, was considered. However the Basque coach determined to proceed together with his present membership.
There was additionally hypothesis concerning the names of the Portuguese Ruben Amorim, who made Sporting Lisbon champion in Portugal, or the Italian Roberto De Zerbi, from Brighton.
However lastly the chosen one is Arne Slot (45 years previous), who coached AZ Alkmaar (2019-2020) and who since 2021 has been answerable for Feyenoord, whom he made champion of the Netherlands in 2023.
In 2022 he had led Feyenoord to be runners-up within the Convention League, crushed by José Mourinho’s Roma within the remaining, and in 2024 he has gained the Netherlands Cup.
As a participant, Slot had an uneventful profession at Breda, Sparta Rotterdam and PEC Zwolle.
In response to the specialised press, Liverpool paid 11 million euros (11.9 million {dollars}) to Feyenoord to launch the coach from the 2 years remaining on his contract.
“The Arne Slot period is coming to an finish,” Feyenoord himself indicated on the X social community.
The tip of an period
The mission is not going to be simple for Slot because of the nice charisma of Klopp, who will play his final recreation at Anfield on Sunday and who’s a very beloved character at Liverpool.
With Klopp as coach, Liverpool skilled unforgettable successes, particularly the English champion title in 2020 – the primary in three a long time – and the Champions League title in 2019, fourteen years after the ‘miracle of Istanbul’ towards AC Milan .
Earlier than arriving at Anfield, Klopp had twice been champion of the German league, had gained a German Cup and had misplaced a Champions League remaining, towards Bayern Munich in 2013.
In current weeks, the British press got here to explain Arne Slot as “the Dutch Guardiola” for his offensive fashion. He’s normally trustworthy to a 4-2-3-1 formation.
Slot’s official baptism within the Premier League can be on the weekend of August 17, the date introduced for the premiere of the brand new season of the English championship, during which Liverpool will as soon as once more be among the many predominant candidates to be topped.
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– 2024-05-22 10:47:48
