So who should be our next manager?

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Don't like Slot, he looks like the fella who rapped on Barbie Girl.

[Toxteth O'Grady]

Slot has come from nowhere on Sunday to be 2/1 on Ladbrokes now.

[TD_LFC]

 

His personality, relationship with players and fans as well as the emphasis on tactical innovation and youth development described in the video would be obvious plus points (and ticks in the Liverpool manager must have box)

 

His influence over 'front office' might be counter to what we have although Hughes has said in the past that the manager is the first and last point of call when it comes to transfers and his job is all the bits in between.

 

Let's not start a thread for him and jinx it.

[3 Stacks]

7 minutes ago, Toxteth O'Grady said:

Slot has come from nowhere on Sunday to be 2/1 on Ladbrokes now.

Joyce just said we are targeting him.

[Saucepan]

Fuck it, hire Hyypia and be done with it!

[Denny Crane]

Slot assistant is called Johnny De Wolfe.

 

 

[Kevin D]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/sport/football/article/arne-slot-next-liverpool-manager-jurgen-klopp-r3sl6vdc8
 

 

The Feyenoord head coach Arne Slot has emerged as a leading candidate in Liverpool’s search for a replacement for Jürgen Klopp.

 

The 45-year-old led Feyenoord to success in the KNVB Cup final last weekend and has compiled a strong body of work in the Netherlands, having led the club to their first Eredivisie title in six years in the 2022-23 season.

 

In addition, Slot’s ability to improve players and his aggressive, high-octane playing style are attributes that would appeal to Liverpool’s kingmakers.

His Anfield ascension is far from a done deal and Liverpool are continuing to discuss other contenders as well, while managerial vacancies at Bayern Munich, Barcelona and AC Milan this summer complicate matters.

 

Feyenoord, of course, want to retain his services and the technical director Dennis te Kloese said after the cup final success over NEC Nijmegen that “we assume that he will also be our trainer next year”.

However, it is understood that Slot is minded to take the next step in his coaching career even if his contract does not expire until 2026. There is no release clause in that deal but it is thought a fee of less than €10 million euros (about £8.6 million) could be enough to prise him away.

 

On Tuesday Feyenoord refused to confirm or deny Liverpool’s interest in Slot, who is a disciple of Pep Guardiola but also knows the Liverpool assistant manager Pepijn Lijnders.

Interestingly, a press conference with Slot scheduled for Wednesday to preview Thursday’s Eredivisie game away to Go Ahead Eagles has been cancelled.

 

Liverpool have been working on replacements for Klopp, who informed the club’s hierarchy last November and went public in January that he would be standing down at the end of the campaign to re-energise after almost nine years in charge.

 

Bayer Leverkusen’s Xabi Alonso had opted to remain at the German club having just led them to the Bundesliga title, while Sporting Lisbon’s Rúben Amorim has also come under scrutiny although the trail has since grown colder.

 

Slot’s CV has a lot of the qualities wanted by Michael Edwards, the chief executive of football at Liverpool’s owner Fenway Sports Group, as well as the soon-to-be sporting director Richard Hughes.

 

Hughes remains in situ at Bournemouth as technical director and will move to Merseyside at the end of the season. He has followed Feyenoord’s progress, having signed Marcos Senesi from them for £12million in August 2022. Hughes also signed Luis Sinisterra on loan from Leeds United last summer, with the winger previously coming to prominence at Feyenoord.

 

It is not the first time that there has been Premier League interest in a coach who has transformed Feyenoord’s playing style, favouring a 4-2-3-1 formation, and challenged PSV Eindhoven and Ajax in recent seasons despite operating on a fraction of their budget.

 

Leeds had targeted Slot last February after the dismissal of Jesse Marsch but he opted to stay in the Netherlands.

 

Similarly, Tottenham Hotspur had wanted him before appointing Ange Postecoglou and Chelsea are understood to have also held talks with Slot prior to Mauricio Pochettino’s arrival at Stamford Bridge.

Slot moved to Feyenoord in 2021 after impressing at AZ Alkmaar and led them to the inaugural Europa Conference League final at the end of his first season, in which they narrowly lost to José Mourinho’s Roma.

 

Meanwhile, Diogo Jota has suffered a fresh injury setback and will be missing for about two weeks with a hip problem. The Portugal striker, who scored in the 3-1 win over Fulham last Sunday, was absent for two months between February and April after suffering knee ligament damage.

 

 

 

[Denny Crane]

We offered the job to Frank De Boer under FSG didnt we?. Dutch coaches are excellent at developing players not so good at the winning in England. 

 

[Megadrive Man]

Slot turned down Spurs in the summer apparently. 

 

I'm not sure a bald Dutch manager that only really knows the Eredivisie is a good idea?

[Razoray]

8 hours ago, Scott_M said:

The reasons for this have been covered. 

He isn’t exceeding expectationsHe is actually doing worse. 

For a manager to be successful at Liverpool currently, the coach will have to create a team performing better than the sum of its parts. De Zerbi isn't doing that. 

For the 8 months of last year, even with Sanchez, Caicedo, Mac Allister and a fit Mitoma, they got 49 points from 31 games. Good for Brighton, but worthy of the Liverpool job?

[Dave D]

2 hours ago, TD_LFC said:

 

What current situation?

 

No way in a million years would we go for a temporary manager.

The current situation of no-one suitable being available this summer. Or do you just go for someone not equipped for it? 

[TD_LFC]

On 23/07/2023 at 21:49, TD_LFC said:

 

Don't personally think we should sign him but on the one dimensional issue, he'd be surrounded by Trent, Mac Allister and Szoboszlai so a defensive monster with solid short/mid range passing wouldn't be unworkable.

 

Traditionally* we've had very few 'specialists' in the team but DM has been one of them.

 

I'd still prefer an Edson Alvarez or a left field option like Wieffer than him though.

 

[Edit]*under Klopp

 

It's on!

[diamondjoe]

Arnie Pyes Pie in the sky is all that comes to my mind. 

[3 Stacks]

There's a tenuous link there with Alkmaar being the club where Slot started and they are kind of a "data club". Billy Beane has a minority ownership there. 

 

If it happens it will very much be sold as a data driven thing.

[Scott_M]

20 minutes ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

Don't like Slot, he looks like the fella who rapped on Barbie Girl.

 

[Section_31]

[TD_LFC]

1 minute ago, Dave D said:

The current situation of no-one suitable being available this summer. Or do you just go for someone not equipped for it? 

 

Like i said earlier, the panic about lack of options isn't something that I think is shared within the club and the linear reporting of targets isn't how clubs tend to work.

 

You never know if a manager is equipped for it until they're in the job so you just work through mitigating risk and trying to appoint managers that line up with your philosophy and requirements.

 

The club has had a pretty good no dickhead rule up to now because they invest as much in the off the field scouting as they do on the field, especially for players, so making sure a signing is a high character high talent person is as much as you can do the rest is down to luck.

[3 Stacks]

12 minutes ago, Razoray said:

He isn’t exceeding expectationsHe is actually doing worse. 

For a manager to be successful at Liverpool currently, the coach will have to create a team performing better than the sum of its parts. De Zerbi isn't doing that. 

For the 8 months of last year, even with Sanchez, Caicedo, Mac Allister and a fit Mitoma, they got 49 points from 31 games. Good for Brighton, but worthy of the Liverpool job?

That's absolutely absurd to say he is doing worse than expected at Brighton.

[Scott_M]

4 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

There's a tenuous link there with Alkmaar being the club where Slot started and they are kind of a "data club". Billy Beane has a minority ownership there. 

 

If it happens it will very much be sold as a data driven thing.

Didn’t they lose the league to Ajax on PPG due to the curtailment of the season? 

[etho]

Arne Slot - has won a league albeit Dutch one, similar tactically, quite charismatic I’ve heard. Sounds the best of the current options and I include Amorim. Didn’t like the sound of the 3-4-3

[3 Stacks]

3 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

Didn’t they lose the league to Ajax on PPG due to the curtailment of the season? 

Yeah, something like that. They had the same amount of points as Ajax 

[El Rojo]

20 minutes ago, Denny Crane said:

Slot assistant is called Johnny De Wolfe.

 

If it facilitates a photo opp of himself and Szloboszlai dressed in similar clothing that could go with a caption of, ‘Hungary like De Wolfe’, I could probably get behind it. 

[Dave D]

4 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

 

Like i said earlier, the panic about lack of options isn't something that I think is shared within the club and the linear reporting of targets isn't how clubs tend to work.

 

You never know if a manager is equipped for it until they're in the job so you just work through mitigating risk and trying to appoint managers that line up with your philosophy and requirements.

 

The club has had a pretty good no dickhead rule up to now because they invest as much in the off the field scouting as they do on the field, especially for players, so making sure a signing is a high character high talent person is as much as you can do the rest is down to luck.

 

In all honesty, I think any appointment will prove to be comparatively "temporary" given the way the Premier League/Media seems to work- unless you get really lucky as we did with Klopp and everything aligns

[Toxteth O'Grady]

I'll admit I know nothing about him but my concern is that names like his inevitably end up in articles that read "........who was appointed in 2024 was sacked by the midlands club after just 10 months in charge. He will be replaced by his assistant manager Alan Irvine until the end of the season".

[Code]

Just seen he lost to Brendan Rodgers in a Champions League game before Christmas, that me out!