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Arne Slot has proven himself as a perfect successor at Liverpool for Jurgen Klopp this season.

The Dutch manager was appointed as head coach at Anfield last summer after Klopp announced his departure from Merseyside, with Slot since leading Liverpool to a 12-point lead at the top of the Premier League with nine games to go.

Although Slot has seen defeats in the Carabao Cup final and the UEFA Champions League last-16, this season will go down to many Liverpool fans as a success, with a second Premier League title set to be claimed in the coming weeks.

And Andy Robertson has now shared what he thinks is the main difference between Slot’s Liverpool side and what Klopp did with the Reds after the Dutchman’s first season in charge.

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Speaking to Walk On, the Scottish international shared that Slot’s Liverpool need to start winning trophies before they can be compared to what Klopp’s sides did, with the Reds likely to achieve this next month in the Premier League.

“It’s a tough one to answer just now because we proved back then that we could win things.

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“I’ve played in some really good Liverpool teams.

I’ve been very, very fortunate and I think the team that won the Champions League and the Premier League was a special team.

“This team has definitely got the potential to be a really special team, but I think you need to win trophies to prove that.

We still need to prove that we can compete with the best and I think so far we’ve done that very well.”

The prospect of a Liverpool side in the Premier League era being as good as Klopp’s seems almost fanciful, with the German manager building and leading one of the best teams modern football has ever seen at Anfield.

Yet Slot could well and truly do just that in the years to come at Liverpool, with the former Feyenoord manager on course to win the Premier League and to oversee a complete rebuild of the Reds in the upcoming summer window.

Indeed, Slot not winning the Carabao Cup or going further in Europe was a blow for supporters, but winning the Premier League is still something few fans expected at the start of the season, and the triumph will give the Dutch manager the perfect springboard to build for the future.