Feyenoord head coach Arne Slot has revealed he needs to grow to be the brand new Liverpool boss and is “assured” an settlement can be reached for him to succeed Jurgen Klopp.
Liverpool stay in talks over appointing the Dutchman after Feyenoord turned down their opening supply for the 45-year-old.
Talking earlier than Feyenoord’s 3-1 Eredivisie win at Go Forward Eagles on Thursday, Slot instructed ESPN: “The golf equipment are negotiating. I’m awaiting the end result.
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“It is no secret I need to go to Liverpool. Now I’m ready for the golf equipment to succeed in an settlement. I’m assured that can occur.”
Slot’s feedback come after Liverpool made an strategy value £7.75m for the ex-AZ Alkmaar boss however it’s anticipated to value Liverpool nearer to £9m if Slot is to grow to be Klopp’s successor.
Following the victory over Go Forward Eagles, Slot referenced the potential compensation price and says whereas there can be “hard-bargaining”, he believes Feyenoord will attain an settlement with Liverpool.
He mentioned: “I’ve the impression {that a} good supply has already been made. And plainly Feyenoord is already going to make the highest-paid Dutch switch price for a coach.
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Feyenoord boss Arne Slot offers an inspirational workforce speak following an enormous win towards Ajax final season – his aspect then went on to win the Eredivisie
“And someplace I nonetheless have a little bit of the concept I’ve carried out so properly in recent times, earned a lot cash, that Feyenoord is pondering alongside these strains. Though pondering alongside won’t be the suitable phrase whenever you hear the quantities concerned.”
Requested whether or not they’re wishing him properly within the potential transfer, Slot replied: “I do not suppose “want” is the suitable phrase when you realize the quantities concerned.
“Wishing is when you will have a clause in your contract, and that is the utmost they’re prepared to pay. Then you’ll be able to speak about wishing.
“Now it is simply exhausting bargaining, which is everybody’s proper. However I completely imagine they’ll attain an settlement.”
Sky Sports activities Information reported on Tuesday that Slot is on the forefront of Liverpool’s search.
The Feyenoord boss ticks all their key standards for the place and sources in Holland point out the method might transfer rapidly.
Why are Liverpool eager on Slot?
Slot, who secured the Dutch Cup final weekend and led Feyenoord to their first title in six years final season, appeals to Liverpool resulting from his aggressive, full-throttle type.
He has drilled his workforce to be adept at turning defensive actions into capturing alternatives and so they high the Eredivisie for tackles received within the opposition’s last third.
Feyenoord have the perfect defence within the league and the second-best offensive metrics.
Slot has proved able to enhancing people in addition to the collective, whereas working on a smaller finances than his core rivals, and his penchant for a 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 formation matches Liverpool’s squad.
Slot has beforehand been approached by Tottenham, Chelsea and Leeds. He signed a brand new contract final Could to maintain him at Feyenoord till 2026 however has referenced a need to make the following step in his profession.
Sporting supervisor Ruben Amorim was into account by Liverpool however sources say he’s not within the body, because it stands.
West Ham are enthusiastic about Amorim however Julen Lopetegui, the previous Wolves, Actual Madrid and Spain boss, and Paulo Fonseca, presently accountable for Lille, are thought of the frontrunners.
Carra: Liverpool’s transfer for Slot exhibits lack of high managers
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Jamie Carragher feels that Arne Slot could discover the step up from Feyenoord to Liverpool troublesome as he must meet the membership’s present calls for to compete for the most important trophies each season
Jamie Carragher says Liverpool’s transfer for Slot demonstrates the shortage of “high managers” presently accessible.
Talking to Sky Sports activities, former Liverpool defender Carragher mentioned: “From Feyenoord to Liverpool is a big bounce and I feel it exhibits at this second that there is in all probability a dearth of actual high managers on the market, whenever you take a look at who Liverpool are going for.
“Initially it was Xabi Alonso – it is solely his first full season as a supervisor – then there was speak of Ruben Amorim from Sporting, who’s solely 39. Now Arne Slot is the favorite.”
Carragher added the situation probably going through Slot at Anfield differs from the one Klopp inherited in 2014 after his time accountable for Borussia Dortmund, or the one Rafa Benitez walked into in 2004 after leaving Valencia.
“I do not suppose it is like Benitez coming in, or Klopp,” he mentioned. “Benitez coming in on the again of two LaLiga titles and a UEFA Cup, or Klopp profitable a few league titles and attending to a Champions League last. Liverpool have been really in a unique area then.
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Gary Neville offers his tackle Liverpool’s transfer to nominate Feyenoord supervisor Arne Slot to switch Jurgen Klopp
“That Liverpool workforce, actually underneath Benitez that I used to be a part of, we have been the workforce attempting to qualify for the highest 4. The identical with Klopp when he got here in.
“However Liverpool are in a unique period now. They really fancy themselves to problem for the Premier League each season. Subsequent season, within the Champions League they’d anticipate to get to the quarter-finals a minimum of.
“I feel it is an enormous bounce however he is clearly an incredible coach with an incredible observe document up to now. We’ll see.”
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The making of Slot: Why he’s proper for Liverpool
Feyenoord’s Arne Slot is anticipated to be the person to switch Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool supervisor
Slot has emerged as the popular candidate to switch the departing Klopp as the following Liverpool supervisor however who’s the person that the membership imagine can lead them into this new period and what can they anticipate from this 45-year-old Dutch coach?
In dialog with those that coached Slot and those that have been coached by him, in addition to colleagues on his employees, we look at the making of Liverpool’s subsequent supervisor, exploring his tactical concepts, his man-management and his dealing with of the media.
Learn Adam Bate’s in-depth characteristic on Slot right here.
‘Slot brings loopy, attractive soccer’
Slot took over from Dick Advocaat at Feyenoord for the beginning of the 2021/22 season with the membership having completed fifth the earlier marketing campaign.
Simply two years later, they have been champions of the Eredivisie. He constructed a urgent workforce enjoying intense, attack-minded soccer whereas additionally with the ability to win.
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Sky Sports activities Information’ chief reporter Kaveh Solhekol explains the small print round Arne Slot’s potential transfer to Liverpool
Feyenoord are second behind PSV Eindhoven this season, 9 factors adrift with 4 video games to play. In Europe, they completed third of their Champions League group earlier than dropping into the Europa League, the place they have been knocked out by Roma on penalties in February.
Talking to Sky Sports activities, Dutch soccer journalist Marcel van der Kraan mentioned: “He’s the prime candidate for Liverpool.
“It was solely a matter of time earlier than one other huge English membership would come knocking on the door. He is not solely been a profitable supervisor, he is additionally been massively spectacular together with his enjoying type of very attack-minded, Pep Guardiola-style soccer.
“I do not anticipate Feyenoord to face in the best way. They know he is a supervisor in demand however they’ll demand an enormous compensation price. He has two years left on his contract.
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Sky Sports activities’ Peter Smith and David Reed talk about the information that Liverpool have opened negotiations with Feyenoord about hiring Arne Slot as supervisor
“That was a document deal. By no means earlier than in Dutch soccer has a workforce paid a supervisor such large wages.
“The gamers like him, the followers love him, the membership love him – they will not need him to go. Feyenoord have each proper to demand an enormous price as there isn’t a clause in his contract, which he renewed final 12 months.
“He is been a profitable coach and made Feyenoord champions enjoying loopy, attractive soccer. It’s attractive what this man brings on a soccer pitch.
“There’s nothing extra to win for him right here. The subsequent step for him is to enter a membership in an enormous league and no league is larger for the Dutch than the Premier League.
“I can be shocked if Slot would not chew at this opportunity and grow to be the supervisor of Liverpool subsequent season.”
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