Liverpool news: Arne Slot podcast

A special episode of BBC Radio 5 Live’s Football Daily podcast analyses Arne Slot’s success in his first season in charge of new Premier League champions Liverpool.

The Reds made only one major summer signing following Slot’s arrival, bringing in Italy international Federico Chiesa, with Slot choosing to utilise much of the squad left by his predecessor Jurgen Klopp.

Dutch football journalist Marcel van der Kraan said: “When you look at Arne Slot, it’s almost like you’re watching a Swiss watchmaker. Those people are so accurate. You give them all the little details of a brilliant watch and they put it in place. That’s what Slot did.

“Liverpool never promised him a transfer kitty, I don’t think he ever asked for a transfer kitty. In his years at Feyenoord, the biggest amount of money he had ever been given was £28m and that was for nine players. The biggest amount he spent on one player was £7m in Holland.

“When he went to Liverpool, I didn’t think he would spend massively because the players he was getting from Klopp’s time were already miles better than what he’d ever worked with at any club in Holland.

“When he arrived, I thought I would be surprised if he signs anybody and in the end I think it was just Chiesa and even he didn’t play much. Slot really wanted his system to work.

“He was putting that watch together, with all the elements that were needed to make it tick. That’s what I believed he would do – never realising that he would blow everybody away so quickly.”

Listen to the full podcast on BBC Sounds