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Andrew Robertson of Liverpool during a training session during the UEFA Champions League 2024/25 League Phase MD8 training and press conference at AXA Melwood Training Centre on January 28, 2025(Image: Nick Taylor/Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

Replacing Jurgen Klopp was always going to be an onerous task for whoever took on the challenge.

Slot, then, is on the brink of following Rafael Benitez as only the second 'outsider' to win a trophy within 12 months of being appointed Liverpool boss.

"When you’re at a club like Liverpool you can’t afford a settling-in period," admits Robertson.



But as we sit here today, we’re in a really good spot.”

A spot, though, in which Liverpool are unlikely to remain for too much longer in their current guise.

"The manager is asking different things as well, when maybe you've been at a club for so long and people are used to you playing one way, then they maybe don't accept you playing in another way or you think you've dropped.

"Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had some of my not-best performances this season, but I've also had some what I think were really good performances that maybe haven't been highlighted as much as maybe they were five, six years ago when I was the new kid on the block.

"So I'm very happy where I’m at just now.

The last couple of months I've been a kind of a mainstay in the team and played some really good stuff and the team has played really good stuff, which is the most important thing.

"I'd happily drop a one out of 10 every single week if the team kept on winning - although obviously at a club like Liverpool, you don't stay in the team very long if you do that!"

Of the differences between Slot and predecessor Klopp, Robertson says: "The principles are always there but he changes a lot more on a game-to-game basis, whereas under the previous regime I think our blueprint to win a game was unmatched.

And the rollercoaster 3-3 Premier League draw at Newcastle in December is proof of the challenge Liverpool now face.

"That was one of the toughest games we've had in the Premier League this season," says Robertson.
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