Jamie Carragher claims the means Arne Slot launched him to his wife and also toddlers on vacation “stuck with me” as indicias of the supervisor’s Liverpool “obsession”.
Slot professionally led Liverpool to their 2nd Premier League title at the initially time of inquiring last term possessing switched Jurgen Klopp in the Anfield sunny-seat.
But the Dutchman is withstanding a arduous 2nd period, with the Reds now eighth in the Premier League table possessing thrown away 5 of their last 6 apex flight arcades after investing over £400m on contemporary gamers in the summer season.
Carragher said previously this week that Liverpool need to indication at the awfully least 2 contemporary gamers in January, urging them to leverage Antoine Semenyo’s £65m takeoff clause at Bournemouth and also encompassing a contemporary centre-ago to the standings as their failure to land Marc Guehi from Crystal Royal residence on deadline day has confirmed pricey.
And the pundit now claims Slot has an “obsession with the Victors League” after divulging a opportunity conference with the Liverpool supervisor on vacation in the summer season.
He briefed Sky Sporting jobs: “I believe Slot has a portable portable little bit bit obsession with the Victors League. He speaks about PSG a ton last period, on the ago of wasting to them.
“He speaks so nicely of them, he practically idolized wasting to that crew and also the fact that they went on to win the tournament, and also the means they dabbled in the final.
“I believe he loves employers whose teams tinker that kind of football, that’s how he pictures his crew tinkering at their unrelieved irreproachable.
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“That’s why on the ago of last period, chatting about Liverpool possessing manipulate, he longed added panache, you can go to that with the gamers he’s funnelled in. But once you invest that a ton coinage coinage money, you have to be one of the favourites for the Victors League.
“I literally bumped into Arne Slot in the summer season once he was away, we were both on vacation, and also he was there with his family members, and also I thanked him for what he’d done for Liverpool last period in stipulation of sweet the league. And he launched me as a Victors League winner to his wife and also his toddlers.
“And I’d practically genuinely feel like he surmises ‘that’s our next weigh’. I can genuinely feel it the means he said it, we’ve won the league, however we want to win the Victors League, it was that kind of point.
“And it merely stuck with me in his head; you can genuinely feel he seriously desires it, as all apex employers do however once you’re a supervisor of Liverpool, the nightclub is tagged with the Victors League, so we have to go close.”
