News about Arne Slot

LEWIS STEELE: The Reds negotiations for Slot were relatively smooth but any hiccups were down to the number of staff the Dutchman brought with him from Feyenoord, with the Rotterdam club rightly digging their heels in to avoid mass exits.

LEWIS STEELE AT THE LONDON STADIUM: Mohamed Salah (left) stopping for a chat with the media as he left the London Stadium was about as unlikely as Liverpool now winning the Premier League title this season after their dismal 2-2 draw at West Ham. He has spoken in the mixed zone - a corridor of uncertainty where players must walk past the hungry press pack - just twice in his seven years at Liverpool. But still, a small group of reporters who cover most Reds matches optimistically went down to the bowels of the stadium. In truth, Mail Sport was there on a mission to get some flash quotes from players on incoming boss Arne Slot (inset). No stars did stop for a chat, clearly under instruction, but less than 10 words from Salah made bigger waves worldwide than a lengthy sit-down chat with any other player.

DANNY MURPHY: There was no ideal candidate out there to replace Jurgen Klopp because they are such huge shoes to fill. Not just in terms of team-building, but the relationship he had with the fans and the city. Even Xabi Alonso didn't tick all the boxes because he's only been a manager for a couple of years. I'm sure Liverpool have done their due diligence on Arne Slot and it's positive for the fans that he plays the game on the front foot just like Klopp. We're told he has a confident and humorous personality as well which is positive. He won't need three years to build a team to compete at the top level like Klopp did because he already has a squad in place with quality and the right blend of youth and experience.

A Feyenoord player was spotted at the London Stadium to watch Liverpool's draw with West Ham ahead of Arne Slot's appointment.  The Merseyside club have agreed a compensation package for Slot to succeed Klopp, with Mail Sport reporting on Friday morning that figure could reach up to £9.42million. The agreement also is expected to include a move for Slot's right-hand man Sipke Hulshoff, who has done a secondment at the Netherlands national team, and head of performance Ruben Peeters.

Former Liverpool star Peter Crouch (inset) has warned incoming Reds boss Arne Slot (left) that it will be 'difficult' to replace Jurgen Klopp (right) in the Anfield dugout at the end of the season. The Reds were previously favourites to replace Klopp with former player Xabi Alonso before the Spaniard decided to extend his stay at Bayer Leverkusen after winning the Bundesliga title.

Liverpool fans are divided on Arne Slot's appointment after it was revealed the Premier League giants had reached an agreement with Feyenoord to make the Dutchman their new manager. The Merseyside club have agreed a compensation package for Slot to succeed Klopp, with Mail Sport reporting on Friday morning that figure could reach up to £9.42million.

If his gloomy facial expression and defeatist body language did not give the game away, Jurgen Klopp has now confirmed what many suspected. Wednesday's meek surrender at Goodison Park was the most disappointed he has felt after a game in his career, he said yesterday. Liverpool lost 2-0 to bitter city rivals Everton , the first time they had fallen to defeat on the trip across Stanley Park since 2010. The connotations around Merseyside added salt to Klopp's wounds, plus the fact it all but ruled them out of the Premier League title race. The most bitter pill to swallow for the German, though, was his team's lack of fight. Of course, he would never throw them under the bus - he has taken the blame - and this campaign will end around par for the course given the pre-season expectations.

Liverpool and Feyenoord have verbally agreed for Dutch manager Arne Slot (left) to take over from Jurgen Klopp (bottom right) from the start of next season. Mail Sport reported on Friday morning that the two clubs were close to finding an agreement and that deal, which could reach up to £9.42million, was brokered late in the evening. The agreement also is expected to include a move for Slot's right-hand man Sipke Hulshoff, who has done a secondment at the Netherlands national team, and head of performance Ruben Peeters. Jurgen Klopp publicly endorsed Slot on Friday as a 'good coach and good guy', with the German now having just four games remaining as Liverpool boss. An opening bid of £7.7m was rejected but the Merseyside club held up negotiations on Friday and finally reached a deal which is believed to be around £9.4m including add-ons.

Football Manager has predicted that Arne Slot will be sacked as Liverpool boss halfway through his first season at the club. Slot, who is currently in charge of Feyenoord, is expected to succeed Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool manager. The Dutchman revealed his intention to take charge of Liverpool, and an agreement could be reached by the end of the weekend.

GRAEME SOUNESS: Arne Slot is coming into a situation at Liverpool that I had thought was extremely healthy, and I said so when Jurgen Klopp announced he was leaving. But, of late, Liverpool have shown a vulnerability and weakness I did not think existed. The season has gone flat and the title has gone now. I did not see this coming. They have gone from the team I believed were going to win it, who did not have to play well to win because they had so much firepower, to a team struggling to score a goal. That's two defeats without scoring against Crystal Palace and Everton this month.

LEWIS STEELE: Outgoing Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has publicly endorsed Arne Slot, the man expected to become his successor, by describing the Feyenoord boss as a 'good coach and good guy'. Mail Sport reported this morning how the Dutch club are ready to conclude a deal for their manager Slot to become Liverpool's new boss within the next 48 hours and advanced talks between the two clubs will continue this afternoon. There is an expectation at the Dutch club that those discussions will reach a positive conclusion after Slot publicly admitted his desire to join Liverpool on Thursday night. Well-placed sources believe an agreement will be reached by the end of the weekend.

The Premier League's most wasteful players this season have been revealed, with three Liverpool stars ranking inside the top-ten footballers to have missed the most big chances during the 2023-24 campaign. The Reds have notably struggled to find the back of the net of late - and their scoring woes has been costly, so much so that Liverpool have seemingly dropped out of the title race following their 2-0 defeat by Everton on Wednesday night.  'I don't know [if we're still in the race],' Klopp admitted after the Merseyside derby. 'I can only apologise to the people. Everybody who is with us knows how hard this is for us as well, but I know for other people it's especially hard. So we should have done better but we didn't and that's why we lost.' 

SAMI MOKBEL: Feyenoord are ready to conclude a deal for their manager Arne Slot to become Liverpool's new boss within the next 48 hours. Advanced talks between the two clubs will continue on Friday with the expectancy at the Dutch club that those discussions will reach a positive conclusion after the Dutchman publicly admitted his desire to join Liverpool on Thursday night. Well-placed sources believe an agreement will be reached by the end of the weekend.

Arne Slot says he has every confidence that Liverpool and Feyenoord will soon reach an agreement for him to become the new Anfield boss next season. The Dutch boss, who won the KNVB Cup last weekend and also led Feyenoord to the league title last season, this week emerged as Liverpool's preferred candidate to take over from outgoing manager Jurgen Klopp. A first offer was rejected but the Reds are expecting to close a deal soon. And Slot said last night before Feyenoord's match at Go Ahead Eagles: 'The clubs are negotiating. I am waiting to see what will come out of it.

The prospect of a Dutch manager with a near-maniacal focus on tactics taking charge of one the giants of English football has a certain familiar ring to it. Two years after Erik ten Hag left Ajax for Manchester United, Arne Slot looks set to follow his old foe to the north west of England. Slot has emerged as a strong contender for the Anfield gig and the unenviable task of replacing Jurgen Klopp, who will depart after nine years in charge at the end of the season.

IAN LADYMAN: Now that it feels like it's almost over, it's hard not to think back at what made it what it was. Jurgen Klopp's (left, and main) eight-and-a-half years at Liverpool have left an indelible mark on the Premier League in a way that goes beyond what was, after all, just a single title. For me, the story has often been told in the faces of the opposition. It may be that, more than any individual game, trophy or goal, that will linger the longest. Some of the best players in the world have suffered through it. That feeling of being tossed about mercilessly and endlessly in Klopp's Anfield washing machine. A feeling of helplessness, a sense that the size of the challenge is just too great, the forces pinning you back too irresistible. At times it has felt as though it has been as much about attitude and ferocity as it has been about football or tactics. And this, looking forward, is what makes the challenge facing Klopp's successor at Anfield so great and so daunting. It has been suggested since news broke of Liverpool's efforts to take the Dutch coach Arne Slot (right) out of Feyenoord that the 45-year-old is favoured because he will be able to continue Klopp's work, that he will be able to lead, coach and direct the team in broadly the same way.

Football fans can look forward to some huge Premier League, Eredivisie and Belgian Pro League fixtures tonight. And Sky Bet are offering a Featured Enhanced Accumulator for Thursday night's fixtures. Valued at 10/3, it requires Manchester City, Feyenoord and Union Saint-Gilloise to all win in 90 minutes.

Slot (right) has emerged as the number one contender to succeed Jurgen Klopp and talks are developing quickly with Liverpool, who could even complete a deal this weekend. Journalist Gary Cotterill grabbed a moment with Slot after he exited Feyenoord's team bus ahead of their Eredivisie match with Go Ahead Eagles tonight, but he had to be wary of getting too close.

Chris Sutton has claimed that it feels like Mohamed Salah's time at Liverpool is 'coming to a natural end', as he insists the next manager to succeed Jurgen Klopp will have a squad that is capable of winning the Premier League.  Liverpool suffered a major setback in the title race on Wednesday evening after they were beaten 2-0 by their city rivals Everton at Goodison Park. Klopp's players cut dejected figures at full-time, with the German manager seemingly conceding the title race in a press conference after the match.  While Arsenal sit three points clear of the Reds at the top of the table, Man City have a game in hand and can leapfrog Liverpool to go within one point off Arsenal with a win against Brighton on Thursday. 

Jamie Carragher (top inset) believes there is a rift between outgoing Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp (right) and chief Michael Edwards (left) - citing the return of the latter is because of the German's imminent departure. Last month, it was announced that Edwards was back at the club after leaving the Merseyside outfit two years ago. Club owners FSG asked Edwards back to help head up a restructure following in the wake of Klopp's announcement in January that he will be leaving the club at the end of the season.

In the tunnel of the Stadio Olimpico, Jose Mourinho was breathing fire and looking for the man who had got under his skin. Mourinho's Roma side had just beaten Feyenoord on penalties to reach the quarter-finals of Europa League, last February, but he was in no mood to be gracious. The Portuguese Man of War had a score to settle with Arne Slot and was determined to say his piece. Slot, the man who is expected to become Liverpool's next king, had lit the blue touch paper in a pre-match press conference. The first leg between the sides had ended in a 1-1 draw and ahead of the return, Slot was asked if he had watched any of Roma's recent games to learn about them.

Jamie Carragher says going from Feyenoord to Liverpool would be 'a huge jump' for Dutch manager Arne Slot. Slot has emerged as serious candidate to become Jurgen Klopp 's successor as Liverpool intensify their search for a new manager. The 45-year-old is regarded as one of the most progressive coaches in European football and recently guided Feyenoord to victory in the KNVB Cup.

Liverpool have opened talks with Feyenoord after identifying head coach Arne Slot as the ideal candidate to replace Jurgen Klopp at the end of the season.  Slot, who was considered by both Tottenham and Chelsea last summer, has found immense success since joining the Dutch side in 2021 and has become one of the most progressive coaches in European football. He recently guided his side Feyenoord to victory in the KNVB Cup; the second trophy he has won in charge of the Rotterdam giants, having made them domestic champions 12 months ago. 

Liverpool face a bill of £8.59million to do business with Dutch Cup winners Feyenoord if they decide to step up their efforts to sign manager Arne Slot (left). The 45-year-old Dutchman is now a strong candidate for the soon-to-be vacant Anfield job when Jurgen Klopp departs in the summer. Feyenoord are said to be happy to sanction a departure but would need €10million to do so. Slot won the Dutch Cup at the weekend with a 1-0 win in the final over NEC Breda and also led the Rotterdam side to a league title in 2022-23, just their second championship triumph since the turn of the century.