Accessing Arne Slot’s start at Liverpool

A look at the boss in Red and how he’s started in the new era of LFC.

Transcript

00:00So, well, starting with Liverpool, I mean, an incredible change over the summer with

00:07Arnie Schlott coming in and we spoke about his goals and how he first addressed the sort

00:11of press situation. He spoke to the press and said that, you know, they want to carry

00:16on the success from Jurgen Klopp's time. It's been quite a good start, really. Obviously,

00:20the mishap at Anfield against Nottingham Forest may be a bit of a, you know, a strange one

00:26in there, but other than that, they've been pretty solid. A lot of clean sheets, a lot

00:30of goals as well. How do you sort of assess life under Schlott so far at Anfield?

00:36I think it's been as seamless as it possibly could, to be quite honest with you. As positive

00:42as it could, you know, filling the gargantuan void that was left in Jurgen Klopp at Arnie

00:49Schlott has gone about his business really quite quietly. You know, he had a subdued

00:55start to his reign and he had to take a little bit of flak because of the lack of transfers,

01:02but he was quite adamant that Liverpool didn't need a lot of players through the door. And,

01:07you know, I think he maybe looked to Inforbal, the proof will be in the pub, and when he

01:11would pitch, he seems, you know, quite a pragmatic manager, quite straight down the middle, really.

01:16And that's how it's been, as you say, they won and missed half against Nottingham Forest,

01:20which did seem to rankle him in the performance, considering he actually likes playing in his

01:26low blocks. But they bounced back, they beat AC Milan in the Champions League, and then

01:30they were good against AFC Bournemouth. I mean, they blew AFC Bournemouth apart in the

01:36first half. Luis Diaz, Arnie Schlott seems to unlock his goal scoring prowess. He's scored

01:43five now, two great goals, two really composed finishes, and a fantastic finish from Darwin

01:49Nunes. Funny because Arnie Schlott in his press conference after it said that he hoped that Nunes

01:54wasn't going to shoot and he was very much proved wrong. But I think it was interesting though,

01:59after it, for all that, you know, the 3-0 win, he still said there's aspects that we need to

02:03improve. You know, we said that Karim Keller, who was in goal for Alisson Becker, who was injured,

02:09you know, he was probably more active than Alisson's been throughout the season because

02:13he maybe created allowed Bournemouth to have too many chances, particularly in the closing stages.

02:19So he's not looking at a 3-0 win and saying, oh, this is all great. He still knows there's very

02:24much areas that Liverpool need to improve. And yes, they've had four clean sheets and five games

02:30in the Premier League. But, you know, when he's coming out with comments like that, he's quite

02:35clearly not happy fully yet. He still wants Liverpool to tighten up in certain areas. But

02:42yeah, there's been some really good signs so far.