Why did Liverpool choose Arne Slot? 

There will never be someone the same as Klopp, but I believe there can be others who achieve great things as well

the stylistic continuity is important not just for the first team but for developing youth bc their youngsters have also been training under a similar style

Sorry guys, but I don't know what you where watching, but you definitely didn't see the full games against Atletico. Because in the Atletico away game. The game plan worked really well. And their where totally different players than you have on your screen. Zerrouki was playing as a 6 to cover Griezman (that worked for 80 minutes). Giminez was suspended so Ueda played. And Atletico won the game because of Oblak and the pure class off Griezmann. They also went upfront twice in the Wanda Metropolitano and the whole off the Spanish press where writing how impressing Feyenoord was. The stats also didn't lie with a 2.46 xG for feyenoord and a 0,84 xG for Ateltico. While at the home game it was less impressing and easier to see that Feyenoord was not going to win this game.

"So Jon, if you had to give me a YES or NO answer whether it is going to work out, and without equivocating at all, what would you say?" "Well, I think it really depends on the answer to each of these five questions..."

I might be a bit biased being a Feyenoorder but Liverpool has made a great pick in choosing Arne. This man (Along with Dennis te Kloese) has improved Feyenoord so much. There is a documentary about feyenoord (Dat ene woord) about the 20/21 season. In it you can see how shaky and full of lowpoints that season was. It seemed to me and a lot of othere Feyenoord fans that there really was no sense of direction on and off the pitch. To go from that horrendous season, that saw us narrowly making it into the conference league qualification rounds and having a horrible europa league campaign, to making the conference league final, a title and a cup in three years is astonising. And then i havent even mentioned all the great players that have progressed uner him or his exciting style of playing the game. Again i’m biased but Slot will be dearly missed here in Rotterdam and having liverpool as my fav club in england, i will be greatly looking forward to what’s in store for Liverpool.

This is the best format I’ve seen. The balance is perfect. Keep up the good work lads

He's actually tactically almost identical to klopp. Not sure if he gives better hugs but you'll get the same game play

Here's some context for Slot not winning the title with Feyenoord this year: 1.Psv have the best season in history... likely of all Eredivisie teams ever! There are 2 easy games left to win and they even beat the legendary Ajax with Cruyff '71-'72 campaign. 2. Their squat was much more expensive -no more cos Slot further increased the value of his players so much. They have half a dozen players Feyenoord wanted as well but couldn't afford. 3. They beat us at home 1-2 while all relevant statistics like expected goals were for us, we also had the upper hand in Eindhoven which ended 2-2. And we did beat them in the cup game 1-0. 4. We lost 4 points in the 2 first games of the season cos our squat wasn't complete during the preparation weeks and we suffered an unfortunate red card. 5. Still, we scored more goals and conceded less this season and still could win more points coming just 2 points short of Feyenoord's best season ever ('72-'73 85 points). Slot has been our best head coach ever. It's only a matter of time before you'll say what we've been saying the last 3 years: "in Slot we trust". Hate to see him go but he fully deserves his dream transfer.

It is the mentality that sir Jurgen Klopp brought to Liverpool as a whole, not just the club specifically. Arne Slot will have to work and sacrifice a lot to achieve that level. But, I surely hope the new coach can bring that mentality to us, the Liv fans.

Am I the first person to notice and mention the lovely new cases for Jon and JJ's touchscreen PCs? Actual professional attempt, lads. Lovely.

i think there should’ve been some caveat for Salah’s 2024 metrics. he’s played 876 minutes for liverpool in 2024, a relatively low sample size, no mention of him returning from injury and no emphasis time he spent away from liverpool during afcon. a time that coincided with trent’s injury also. it sort of seemed like the team got used to the right space being used by mostly conor bradley and usually elliott. Mo returns and does well enough with bradley but trent returns and their progression, especially against atalanta, had almost no right side outlet in early buildup phases. trent and szobozslai were both inverting and it seemed to hamper their progression. hence why alisson had the most passes in the 2nd game at atalanta

With Liverpool fans he knows he will be backed hard. His style and the squad he inherents fit like a glove. I would say top 4 is realistic given the level of the league now. And perhaps a cup. I'm already exited for the next season.

Liverpool's strongest attack came whilst Salah was at AFCON and out injured. That was during Liverpool's worst injury crisis since the title defence season with 0 centre backs for 6 months. When putting all chances through the central striker, whether it was Nuñez or Jota, that was when Liverpool's attack was strongest.

I love Arne Slot, he was both Assistant and head coach for my club. And took us to our first semi final of the KNVB cup in our history so yeah im so happy he has come good. I really hope he will succeed at liverpool

The possession thing might be City, Liverpool, Arsenal in the stats but i'd say Liverpool are that high not by choice. Many opposition teams are happy to sit deep and let Liverpool have the ball because Klopp has struggled to consistently break down a low block, whereas Guardiola and Arteta (at times) look like they're happy to play smothering football

Let’s try not to Slot shame please

The trio you never knew you needed, but always wanted. @theathletic you pushing the envelope. 😂 Missed these 3

Gents, this is just gold. You couldn't have told us a better story and what to expect of Arne. Thanks for that

Feyenoord is a big club in the Netherlands with the most supporters in the Counrty, he doesnt come from nowhere...its just a next step higher up...He'll do better than Ten Hag for sure, he is one of the best trainers in the Netherlands and will show you all !!! Everybody happy !!!

As a Liverpool supporter of over 60 years, when Shanks retired, I thought the world was coming to an end but Bob Paisley came in and look what happened. Also Klopp came in, rival fans said, he's never won anything, he'll be gone by Christmas, etc.

CHRIS HAMIL shout! Been watching Tifo football and Chris H. for years and to see both working together to analyze the beautiful game is awesome ❤

Re: JOTA -- if an opposing player DROPS his full weight on your knee from three feet, I would suggest ANY player would be injured for a couple of months. That's hardly his fault. I believe his other injury was also from a very bad tackle. That's just the way it can go.

This video, along with The Athletic's recent article series on Klopp, are examples of the great team of Football journalists and analysts The Athletic are building 👍

Sorry but that away game against Atletico was the best game we played and we didnt play a 4213, we played a 442. We lost because of awful refereeing and honestly bad luck. That home game we just fucked it

Tifo football was great.

Since this channel is for nerds, “evitability” is a concept Daniel Dennett used to explain his theory of compatibilist freewill. RIP

As a Man Utd fan, I am looking forward to Arne Slot era in Liverpool

Man his host is really really good! Quite the layd back atmosphere coupled with good football anaysis by the other two experts. I believe they should have a podcast about the football

Good chat guys. If you would analyze Feyenord's European adventures a bit more we might have a better idea about the scalability of Slot's approach at non-Dutch competitions

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No Liverpool fan expected Liverpool to be competing for the league this season. We had a rough season last year, and a lot of players left in the summer including most of our senior midfielders (apart from Thiago who has been injured most of the season). Getting a trophy and comfortably making top 4 is far more than most fans expected, but Klopp leaving announcement and the team performing above expectations (even with injuries) made us feel like they could have won more.

Players like Matip, Thiago and Tsimikas will most likely leave this summer. Gomez and Diaz futures are up in the air it seems like. We deffo need a CB but should also look at a CDM and maybe striker/attacker. If Slot could get Nunez scoring even half the chances he gets a lot of the problems would be solved. Because it’s not like we’ve had a lack of chances created we just aren’t scoring them. Also need to get back to being top 3 best set piece teams in the league we have completely lost that this season.

I'm excited for the new era, Arne Slot certainly seems to tick almost all of the boxes to be a good manager. I hope he does well. That being said, his lack of experience outside the Netherlands is my biggest (and only real) concern with him. Not trying to belittle the Eredivisie or anything, they do play some exciting football, but the Premier League is a huge step up, the quality of football is higher, more intense, faster paced and can be ruthless, never mind going to Liverpool, where expectations will be much higher. There is a chance that Slot might get a culture shock when he moves and there is no guarantee that his success at AZ Alkmaar or Feyenoord will translate to success for Liverpool, as we saw with Erik Ten Hag. That being said, from what I have been reading, Arne Slot does have one huge advantage over Erik Ten Hag, personality and communication. Slot is a lot more charismatic, more empathetic and has a better sense of humour than Ten Hag, who lacks that sense of human connection and is a lot more blunt. Arne Slot is also apparently a lot more fluent in English than Ten Hag, so much so that apparently that Slot made English the first language at Feyenoord. It was read that while both men were in the Netherlands their personalities were on full display in press conferences. Ten Hag often sounded like he reading off a script word-for-word. Arne Slot by contrast would often throw in a few jokes every now and again and make reporters laugh, which again may help Slot to settle in England better than Ten Hag did. I do think Arne Slot has the ability to make it work and I hope that the culture shock won't impact him too and he recovers/settles in quickly. Bring it on Arne Slot.

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Great vid. Watched the whole thing.

His time with AZ was maybe the most interesting, for analysis.

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The biggest mistake people can make now is compare Slot with Erik ten Hag or any other Dutch coach who worked in the PL. what Slot showed us in The Netherlands is that he can get the most out of a team. He doesn't need expensive players to win trophies, as he proved last season by winning the Dutch title with a completely new squad after so many players were sold. He didn't even have his squad complete at the start of the season. Any comparison with Ten Hag or Van Gaal is unfair because they had much larger player budgets than Slot had at his disposal. Comparatively, Slot's performance was much better. I'm sure he will succeed at Liverpool.

expectation for next season: 1. beat the low block. it has been an achilles heel for a long time. 2. be consistent. we can have some dip in results but not dropping off a cliff like we did customary, usually around the month of AFCON, but this season it was April unfortunately. 3. at least retain the league cup. though I do hope we can win the league but realistically its not going happen. We can remain as challengers, as it has always been except for a season. So the final expectation is get over the finish line. We always compete well but fell on our face at the finish line.

Zerrouki played instead of Minteh in the first leg against Atleti. Zerrouki is a cdm so they actually played with a double pivot the first game.

So just to be clear, this is a working out how he'll Slot in?

Joe Devine with the razor sharp analysis like "the teams change ends at half time"

this is the best execution of that scripted fake podcast style of presentation i have ever seen. it feels effortlessly natural and fluid. never seen anyone pull that off before on youtube.

The end of era moment came when Sadio Mane left. Playstyle completely changed. Last two seasons have been preparing for his departure, I reckon next season they'll be as competitive but will have a bigger and more experienced squad so have a little more depth for the end of the season.

Would love for you to go over Liverpool 19/20 campaign because it encapsulated the balance of possession and counter attacking

I'm worried about the system that leaves big space between the full back and centre back. That's the main defensive issue Liverpool had in 22/23 that dropped them out of the top 4.

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damn the production has really received a boost huh. Very happy for you guys and you assimilation with The Athletic! speaking as a coach in the 4th danish division with big ambitions you are so good at explaining relative complex tactical ideas in a simple and understanderable way with humor added :) great work

Great video Great information

Best definitions of quarterback I've ever seen. Took me a few secs to get it. 25% of fullback, 50% of halfback. lol

I'm not worried. The board has their identity and a way they want to play and go forward with, just like they had under Klopp. Next step was for them to find a coach with similar values, similar playstyle, etc. and now all remains for the new coach to put the pieces together with the board and fans as always behind him.

Evryone put a lot into this. Very good

Came for Arne Slot stayed for Joe Devines sweet sweet tones

The best thing of Liverpool is its recruitment. When they spend they spend really intelligently without the resources of Man City. As a Barcelona fan I wished things where run this way.

What about the 442 for Liverpool? Double pivot of Jones and Alexander-Arnold, could be fire. Szobzslai at RM?

Football tactics and picking teams won't be a tough task for Arne Slot it will be building relationships with Klopps players and convincing everyone in and outside the club he's good enough to get the job done.

To all Liverpool supporters: your getting an amazing manager! Greetings from Rotterdam

As much as I enjoy these videos, and they're very informative. Boy do I miss the fun unhinged, borderline psychotic content these lit used to make on tifo. I hope maybe they can bring something back for the euros, even if its just a one off show

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Amazing video

Arne snot it's all going end in tears

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Have the lads forgotten about Melo when they talk about mistakes? To me Klopp's biggest mistake was handing an ageing, injury prone Henderson, a 4 year contract extension even though he still had two years left. Very rarely do you see that happen with players over 31 at that level. It went against everything Liverpool have been trying to build over the years and if the stories are to be believed, caused a rift between Klopp and others within that hierarchy. Also it's the worst because predictably, the following season after Hendo got that extension, his form fell of a cliff. Also, the midfield being an absolute disaster the following season showed a series of bad decisions with regards to the midfield over a year that doomed Liverpool last season. Henderson extension, not selling Oxlade and Keita, not buying a midfielder and the loan of Melo.

Does anyone know who the footballer is in the photo behind Jon Mackenzie. Wearing denim jeans and jacket, and white Hugo Boss T Shirt. Is it perhaps Totti? Or Ginola?

the pause with the head scratch is the highlight

I’ve been waiting for this

I hope to see at least a pre season game with most of the existing players. I most of them with a bit of tweaking, can Slot into the team.

I don't how he can solve the 'Nunez can't hit a barn door' and 'Salah needs 15 chances for 1 goal' conundrums. Those are the biggest problems with this Liverpool side

Is there a site I can look out playstyles like this?

Liverpool fans can rest assured. Arne Slot is one of the most talented young trainers. High pressing, intensity and attacking football, coupled with superior tactical ability, make Arne's teams an almost unbeatable team. Intelligent, communicative and convincing. It is not without reason that arch-rival Ajax was defeated 10-0 this season (over two games). I would prefer to keep him in Rotterdam for another season, but give Liverpool his leadership. A worthy successor to Klopp and in no way comparable to the bald one from Manchester United.

We (leeds) tried to get Slot last season but failed. I think he's a great manager.

Well done

Proper upper class podcast 😂 these guys say things like “banter” not ironically

I don't expect much from Liverpool next season, but I would hope they stick with Slot for a season or two to give him a proper shot in the job. My hope for Liverpool would simply be to improve in Defense, but I would completely understand a bit of a drop off between this year and next, I think LFC somewhat overperformed this year, I would expect them to at least regress to the mean if not underperform under a new manager. If he manages to teach Darwin what the offsides rule is I would give him a 5 year extension on the spot

I think what's missed is when Liverpool play a risky forward pass, that's done on purpose. They know they will probably lose the first ball, but then immediately counter-press to win it back high up the pitch. Lots of Liverpool goals come from this. Yes they press when the other side starts their own move out from the back, but they also use counter-pressing as a mitigation to long, high risk forward passes. Also, the most important thing is.. while Arne Slott is welcome, hope and pray he gets time to do well.. he's not my real dad and why is he living in our house?

love this

First of all, thank you for the awesome content. While I agree that Salah's form has dropped I cannot agree with you on the point that his shot power is affecting his shot-to-goal ratio. I think it's his general composure and lack of confidence that's affecting him in front of the goal. We've been seeing less of him dribbling past defenders and more of shooting on sight situations.. He used to be so calm in front of the goal but not so much these days

This is an absolutely great analysis the first time I've watched the channel but that main presenter is drab I'd sub him off at half time.

The video we have all been waiting for

The biggest issue is the lack of the Firmino role and anyone who can do it consistently. Also, Fabihno at peak was amazing. These are 2 Klopp era roles that have never been sufficiently replaced. There is also the issue of no replacement for Mane's scoring. Diaz is a good player but not as dangerous, this makes it harder on Salah.

I don't understand why the general football population still believes Liverpool are a counterattacking team. They've been possession based since late 2019. They only played 1.5 seasons of Gegenpressing football.

I hate to be losing him but we have to give our newest appointment the highest backing! YNWA 97 ❤❤❤❤❤

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Would be good to have an interview with the guy so we get a sense of who he is

Most importantly, where did you get that T-shirt Jjbull?

i had no ideas yas were back in another format and under a different channel. good to see the 3 amigos and Joes random looks and stares into the camera ^^

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Data is a minor part as its a totally different league and will have different opposition and intensive competitiveness.... It only gives a relative indicator of whether he has aspects you are looking for that you want to imprint on lfc squad. Its not as if they are going to bankroll him to re build a complete team for him....

For his first full 3 or 4 seasons, Klopp dropped out of the domestic cups early. That's how we won the Champions League and the Premier League. I hope Arne does the same. Fixture congestion is deadly

Love you guys and your dad jokes

Just like Klopp, lets give Slot time to settle and build his squad, we will get there! #YNWA

Has a person, Klopp will be irreplaceable, but as a manager, he wasn't perfect. I think Slot will do a very good job. We move on, so Reds fans out there, give the guy a go. It will be a difficult start for him, due to the Euros and Copa America, he will not be able to get to his system in place early. So give him a break

Will he ‘Slot in’ ? 😂thanks I’m here all week

U guys clearly did not watch the game vs Atletico, I was in the stadium and Atletico fans said Feyenoord were really unlucky and deserved way more. They have not been played by an away team this good in years in their own stadium, Feyenoord was dominating the game. Griezman wanted Wieffer to come to them after the game for a reason. Also the ref and VAR was not making good decions giving Atletico a free goal.

If Saudi offers £150 million for Salah... it would be INSANE and illogical not to sell.

I miss the absolute chaos of the old IRL vids. I wish you could make a 3rd channel which is more comedy oriented. You guys were hilarious

I think the career arc for Arne at Liverpool will follow a similar pattern to Brendan rogers at Liverpool. Following a small exodus of players from Liverpool and an aging core, recruitment will be minimal but maybe one or two key players being brought in during his first season, the football will look exciting but the league position will be underwhelming 5-8th place. Liverpool then go into their second season Arne and improve massively domestically , they put on a run akin to rogers second season or artetas fourth season, we’ll dominate most games but fall short in the league and go out of all the cups early. Optimism is high for the 3rd season after some new recruits but some key senior players have since gone and the average age of the squad is young and generally still inexperienced. A very bad start to the league campaign slightly picks up mid way, but we ultimately underperform and finish 5-8th in the league again and go out at the group stages of the CL. Arne is sacked in the summer at the conclusion of that season (or doesn’t get his contract renewed as I think it’s a 3 year deal). Liverpool move in another direction and I think the owners sell in this time frame from when Arne is manager to a new manager coming in. Arne then goes to manage back in Holland or the bundesliga It’ll be a case of ‘I like the bloke but he’s just not good enough and is out of his depth ultimately’. Hope I’m wrong in the same way I was about klopp, I predicted he would get us challenging for the biggest honours but we’d ultimately fall short and I didn’t see him lasting more than 5-6 seasons with us.

I like those wooden boxes for the tablets lol

Liverpool fans' expectations at the start of this season was to get back into the top 4. No one was expecting a title challenge.