Slot urges patience with Liverpool's big-money signings

Arne Slot insists it takes time for new Liverpool players to get used to the demands of the Premier League.

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00:00I can only answer from my experience being an old man, or at least much older than him,

00:06and the first few months in a different country, because it was also my first experience going abroad,

00:12is different. Your life is a bit upside down.

00:16That, for a manager, is probably not the biggest problem, because I don't have to perform on the pitch,

00:22but I could fully understand that some individuals, some players, need a bit of time to adapt off the pitch as well.

00:29The biggest adaptation is, if you come from abroad, this league, how intense it is,

00:34because, again, today, I think, even when we play once a week, you could see that Jugo had a cramp after 70-75 minutes,

00:43and I didn't take Florian out because he played bad, I took him out because he was hardly able to keep on running anymore.

00:50That is also a bit of the situation we're in, but also that tells you about the new players we've brought in,

00:56and how big of a step it is to adjust to these intensity levels.

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