With Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk signing new contracts till 2027, Liverpool have ambitions to match within the upcoming years and Arne Slot has spoken of switch assurances forward of the summer season.
Earlier than Virgil van Dijk‘s contract was made official, he stated of the membership: “I feel they’re planning to make it an enormous summer season, so all of us should belief the board to do the proper job.”
The membership can’t afford to face nonetheless and Slot was requested in his press convention on Friday in regards to the assurances concerning reinforcements this summer season.
After hinting at top-quality signings final week, his reply this time round was considerably eyebrow elevating as he emphasised “it’s at all times an enormous summer season” on the membership, which isn’t at all times true!
“I feel at Liverpool, there’s at all times an enormous summer season at a membership like this, and it’s already an enormous summer season now,” Slot stated on any switch assurances.
“Perhaps the gamers don’t comply with the whole lot that’s been stated within the media, me neither, however what I do know sitting right here each time was that it was an enormous factor, can we maintain on to him?
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“Can we maintain on to him? And by holding on already to 2 (out-of-contract gamers), it’s already an enormous summer season, so let’s see what the remainder of the summer season will convey.
“However it might be unusual for me to say now that I’m not pleased with the staff we have now as a result of I’ve stated this for a yr, so we’re pleased with the staff we have now.
“Perhaps if we are able to even hold that staff, that may already be an enormous summer season.”
‘You wish to hold the core of the staff collectively’
The final remark sounds not too dissimilar from what we’d beforehand hear from Jurgen Klopp, with protecting maintain of gamers seen because the success somewhat than constructing from a place of power.
Slot has by no means been one to indicate all his playing cards, however he was keen to emphasize the advantages that include protecting a squad collectively for the long run.
“We confirmed the alternative final season as a result of we didn’t change something, I don’t assume we went downwards,” the Dutchman defined.
“However normally, I agree with you, however there’s additionally a whole lot of a number of research being accomplished that the longer a staff performs collectively, the extra success it has.
“So I feel the core of the staff you wish to hold so long as you may collectively, so long as they’re performing in the very best means.
“However it’s also, normally, good to have some new vitality in and across the place with one or two new gamers, that I agree on.
“But it surely isn’t actually a necessity for those who take a look at the standard we have now and the standard of the season we’ve had.
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“We noticed in the course of the week how good of a staff Newcastle is, they’re quantity three now, in order that they performed so effectively towards us within the League Cup ultimate might be not a shock anymore.
“And Paris Saint-Germain has been good, however Villa confirmed, quantity seven in the mean time in England, that they’ll win towards PSG. What a league we’re in.”
