hopes followers will consider he has the backing of sporting director Richard Hughes after seeing their shut relationship on a video.
Slot has lengthy insisted he had the help of Liverpool’s hierarchy, even in a run of 9 defeats in 12 video games, and that he and Hughes speak frequently and are in settlement.
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However Hughes, who was key in appointing the Dutchman in 2024, has hardly spoken in public since his arrival from Bournemouth till Liverpool launched an in-house interview with each males and CEO this week.
And Slot mentioned: “If it has helped for individuals to know not solely I say it however the scenario as a result of they caught that synergy or no matter, then it’s a good factor. I can preserve saying it however the second you see it you most likely consider it extra. Then it’s only a optimistic factor.”
Liverpool have solely misplaced one in every of their final 16 matches in all competitions, however some hypothesis about Slot’s place has endured.
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In the meantime, he praised Hughes, as Liverpool took their spending within the final yr previous £500m by agreeing a , who will be part of in the summertime.
“I mentioned many occasions, how good his work has been within the final one-and-a-half to 2 years,” Slot added. “That is proven within the signings he made and one other time now with Jeremy Jacquet. He’s achieved a fantastic job for the membership but additionally for me.”
The signing of Jeremy Jacquet (proper) took Liverpool’s spending within the final yr previous £500m (AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Slot gave an perception into the recruitment course of and the long-term planning concerned as he mentioned he solely performs an element when Hughes and others slim a search down to a few targets.
“It’s a huge membership and a membership that’s run in a method that lots of people put a number of work into it,” Slot mentioned. “We don’t assume, ‘let’s signal a participant tomorrow and we are going to begin with it immediately’. The work that goes into that’s so detailed on this membership that there’s a lengthy, lengthy interval to go.
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“I don’t watch a soccer match and say, ‘Oh, he’s a very good participant, why don’t we attempt to signal him?’ That’s not the best way we work over right here. There’s a number of knowledge and scouting concerned after which a listing is introduced down to at least one, two or three gamers after which that’s the second that I get additionally concerned. If we do a signing, that’s by no means one week’s work, let’s put it that method.”