In Arne Slot‘s first season, Liverpool are about to rejoice their twentieth league title, however the supervisor is already taking a look at how his workforce can enhance.
“We have now to develop into even higher than we at the moment are – and we will.”
That’s a sign of intent from Slot if ever you heard one. Key to Liverpool’s success this season has been the excessive requirements carried over from the Jurgen Klopp period, and there aren’t any indicators of them fading.
Virgil van Dijk and Mo Salah haven’t stayed to see their careers out quietly. They’re right here to win and so is Slot.
Chatting with media, together with the Liverpool Echothe top coach stated: “I’ve all the time stated that as a supervisor in all places around the globe, everybody needs to realize perfection.
“That can most likely by no means work out, however even in the previous few weeks we’re nonetheless making an attempt to get higher in sure issues and conserving the requirements as excessive as we had them for the entire season.
“We’re so shut perhaps in some components of the season or in some video games (to perfection) however in different moments we have now to do significantly better.”
The truth that Slot feels there may be nonetheless loads of enchancment to be made to a title-winning workforce ought to sign to the remainder of the Premier League that his first-year success is not any flash within the pan.
Liverpool have blown away the competitors domestically during the last eight months, however Slot insisted Liverpool “need to develop into even higher.”
The Dutchman was requested how shut this Liverpool aspect are to his imaginative and prescient, to which he replied: “Components of the season we had been perhaps fairly near that or phases in a sport.
“However, generally, each supervisor that works at a prime membership needs to have management of a sport, each single minute of the sport, however that’s hardly doable on this league.
“There have been phases additionally through the season or throughout video games the place we didn’t have that management, so I feel we will do and we have now to develop into even higher than we at the moment are – and we will.
“That’s undoubtedly my opinion however I additionally know out of expertise that you just can not play 38 video games at this degree, so it should all the time be a bit like this.
“The optimistic factor from us this season is that we by no means went down so much, even when we didn’t have the management I wish to.
“We had been nonetheless tough to attain in opposition to however (we might have) a bit extra ball possession and a bit extra threaten the opponent much more in ball possession.”
Whereas we count on there to be a number of modifications within the enjoying division, it should nonetheless be vital for Slot to make sure he doesn’t rock the boat an excessive amount of this summer season.
Refined tweaks had been the secret this season and we shouldn’t count on Slot to stray too removed from that method.
