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Arne Slot has lauded his Liverpool squad ahead of the team potentially being crowned Premier League champions on Sunday, and said the players made him feel completely at home from day one.
“And the good thing, when you come to a new country, you don't know all the programs yet.
That's probably the positive thing about working abroad and working with a team of players, especially if you go to a new club, you know they're looking at you, and the staff members are looking at you.
“That is also the situation when you go from AZ Alkmaar in Holland to Feyenoord.
I've said many times, the culture at this club and in this training ground, how much they welcome you, the culture of the team, how much they want to do to become better players, helped me a lot to to settle in.”
Slot’s calmness is in direct contrast to his predecessor, and the Liverpool boss claims that his relaxed approach comes from the set up around him,
“That calmness comes from confidence in the way we prepare the team before they go out, and if results then also go your way, that helps even more to feel confident,” he said.
“I think you can only be calm if you feel confident
The most difficult thing for a manager would be if there's a task to do and inside you feel this is probably going to be really hard - and I've never had that feeling.
“But I also always knew that we had a very good team as well