Denny Crane

He was Sander Westervelds captain and he's a golfing buddy.

I don't even think he was discussed until the leak. Hopefully he is banned from recommending players, as this level is a step up for him and we don't know how long he will be here. He's going to be a head coach right so he shouldn't have much dealings with transfers.

From a man who very few had ever heard of or probably watched his footie, we do seem a bit overly confident his tried and trusted methods will work. Did anybody name him as the gaffer they wanted in the next manager thread?

It's as good as done no way would they lose out on their man. By all accounts he jumped at the job and backs himself. Let's hope the club give him the support he needs and he isn't thrown into any shite Being Liverpool documentary footage or any Salah/Trent transfer brouhaha.

I didn't include reserve football for Ten Hag or the hotbed of international football in Israel for Peter Bosz.

I didn't limit it to England. I took roughly the last dozen or so Dutch League winners and followed their path. See the list. I didn't include Koeman as he went and gained experience managing overseas, I remember him knocking us out of Europe back in 06 before he went back to Holland. I listed managers who had directly left Holland to manage overseas -- their failures included clubs in Turkey, Germany, France and England. I even referenced Bosz doing a solid job at Bayer inbetween but he failed firstly at Dortmund and Lyon. Now he is winning the Dutch League again.

Advocaat is not not in the last 15/20 and he's probably about as old as Hodgson so not the same as those listed. For example a lot of people say English managers underperformed for a while and they blamed it on .... Is there a reason why so many Dutch managers struggled when they leave the Dutch League from said generation.

Klopp, Dortmund etc. I mean I'm old enough to remember us replacing Suarez with Balotelli, Borini and Lambert.

The list of Dutch managers covers men who have won most of the last dozen or so Dutch titles from 3 different clubs. Feyenoord, Ajax and PSV, 4 if you include McClaren! Why have they all struggled when leaving Dutch clubs. The fella who is 9 points clear of Slot -- Bosz man was sacked by Dortmund before christmas and was hyped as the man to implement Kloppball a few years back. The Netherlands produces intelligent, versatile and skillfull players but their managers over the last 15/20 years have massively underperformed when leaving the league, baffled why some are sticking their fingers in their ears. I'm trying to find out if there is a reason and why this fella is different.

People can convince themselves of anything. If you would have said a few months back we would be appointing the Feyenoord manager to replace Klopp people would have been stunned.

You follow Dutch football, why have a lot of the recent generation of managers struggled badly when they leave the Dutch League.

I doubt he will have a net spend like Arteta.

I can't get excited about a manager from the Dutch League some of you might enjoy this. Arne Slot is the disciple of Pep Guardiola who has strong similarities to Mikel Arteta and Roberto De Zerbi in the way he coaches and the intense playing style he demands. Slot’s Feyenoord side play some of the most exciting, entertaining, high-energy, attacking football on the Continent. It should come as little surprise then that Liverpool are interested in hiring him as Jürgen Klopp’s successor – with Slot a friend of Klopp’s assistant Pep Lijnders, who is also leaving Anfield. The 45-year-old former midfielder is renowned for his precise coaching methods and his attention to detail. So precise is he that that the ‘rondo’ – the training drill whereby players attempt to keep the ball while a smaller group aim to intercept – is made extremely specific at Feyenoord. Slot is concerned the drill does not allow players to ‘scan’ (to check the options on the pitch) which is one of the fundamentals of passing and so he insists that they can take only one touch, that they cannot return possession to the player who passed to them and, crucially, that the ball always stays below the knee. Players are even encouraged to consider which foot they are passing with. Telegraph Sport learnt this, as Slot led Feyenoord last year to only their second Dutch league title this century, after being given detailed access into the way he works and his methodology – and ambition. This campaign Feyenoord have won the Dutch Cup and are second to PSV Eindhoven in the league – although it should be factored in that he is operating with a fraction of his rivals’ finances and also those of Ajax, who are 24 points behind. Feyenoord may traditionally be the third biggest club in the Netherlands but that gives a false impression. They are far behind the Dutch giants in terms of budget and had been, in recent years, frankly one of its most boring, defensive teams especially under Slot’s predecessor Dick Advocaat. How that has changed. Dutchman long fancied by English clubs Liverpool are not the first Premier League club to take an interest in Slot who joined Feyenoord from AZ Alkmaar in 2021. But Liverpool are clearly the biggest and most serious proposition. Leeds United tried to hire him in February 2023 after sacking Jesse Marsch (and he would be a natural successor to Marcelo Bielsa) but Slot stayed in Rotterdam. Tottenham Hotspur then made a move before they eventually brought in Ange Postecoglou – with Slot surprisingly deciding to stay at Feyenoord and signing a new contract. Given that Feyenoord’s style of play is so demanding, it is impressive they suffer so few injuries – in contrast to Leeds under Bielsa, which is why Feyenoord were so interested in Slot. Slot’s eye for detail fuels Feyenoord success The demanding attention to detail is a theme. For example, Slot has concluded that in training sessions for the days immediately after games the players should work in a space no longer than 40 metres. If they play in bigger areas it means they have to accelerate more and sports medical science has proved that running above 20kmph risks more muscle injuries. Slot does not play games of 11 vs 11 in training as most coaches do and works hard on the mental side of the sport. He has even convinced the Feyenoord players that the more games they play the stronger they will become. It does feel that it is only a matter of time before Slot makes his move to England. There is, of course, an obvious comparison with Manchester United’s Erik ten Hag who moved from Ajax, and there is always that concern over how Dutch coaches fare outside of the Eredivisie which is clearly not one of Europe’s strongest leagues. Yet Liverpool will certainly have run the numbers and the data on Slot, who now has Champions League experience beating Celtic and Lazio but failing to get through the group, and will have been impressed by what they have seen. Not least because his football and pressing game is far more attacking than Ten Hag’s. Interestingly when Ten Hag won the league with Ajax it was Slot who won the Rinus Michels Award for Eredivisie manager of the season. RECOMMENDED Statistics that show why Slot may be perfect fit for Liverpool Read more Feyenoord finished third in Slot’s first campaign – they were fifth the season before. They subsequently were first and are now second. But that does not provide the full picture as Slot completely overhauled their negative playing style. The club wanted him to do it and, interestingly so did the players, with the coach exploding the myth that ‘you can only work with what you have got’. Instead, with a fierce pressing game in which Feyenoord go man-for-man with their opponents all over the pitch, he showed that players can change. Interestingly it was one of his main motivations for joining Feyenoord: to show the world it can be done. For example in Slot’s first team meeting he played clips of the 2021 Champions League final between Chelsea and Manchester City and asked the simple question: why were there so few chances despite there being so many good attacking players? The answer was equally as simple: it was because all those attackers also made incredible defensive runs to nullify their opponents. Slot then contrasted that with the lack of running Feyenoord had completed the season before and compared the distance covered – far less – to his previous AZ side. Slot oversees a training session ahead of 'De Klassieker' – the match between Feyenoord and Ajax – in March 2023 CREDIT: EPA/Koen van Weel His approach was also simple – as is his mantra: his teams defend by attacking. While Klopp’s Liverpool wait for ‘pressing triggers’ Slot asks his players to press all the time which sounds exhausting but, after a few weeks, he believes becomes second nature. The next part of that is to try to control games by emphasising ball possession which is straight out of Guardiola’s play-book. Slot believes that more defensive football – as espoused by Jose Mourinho – is not only more tiring but less stimulating for the players. He argues they cannot improve by primarily thinking about defending. In the Netherlands they call it indoctrineren (indoctrinate) and Slot bombarded the players with stats, with clips and with far more sophisticated and intense training sessions in which every minute is accounted for. It is a clear ‘train-the-way-you-play’ approach. Importantly, Slot has achieved all of this on a shoestring – Feyenoord have made significant money in the transfer market every season he has been there – and he has undoubtedly improved players and their value. He likes to work primarily with young players and is popular in the dressing room. There is an inherent risk, given the league he would be coming from, but Slot certainly appears to fit the mould of a ‘head coach’ whose priority is the training pitch, which Liverpool want, rather than a manager in their new structure led by Michael Edwards and director of football Richard Hughes. ARNE SLOT AND HIS METHODS Slot's Feyenoord were built on a shoestring but delivered fierce pressing and exciting attacking football Read more Related Topics Liverpool FC, Anfield, Jurgen Klopp License this content The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Please review our commenting policy. Show comments Advertisement

Not sure many Everton fans will be buying him a beer.

You are mainly referencing managers from the 70s 80s and early 90s. With Rijkaard who managed in Holland in 2001/02 the most recent. I'm mentioning recent managers. Most reasonable people would acknowledge how much of a risk it is to appoint a man direct from the Dutch League to manage England's most successful club who are also one of the richest clubs in the world.