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Arne Slot has refused to divulge how close he came to becoming Tottenham Hotspur manager last year, claiming his admiration for Sunday's opponents simply stems from their commitment to attacking football.

And the Liverpool head coach, whose side visit Spurs on Sunday for the opportunity to spend Christmas Day at the top of the Premier League, referred to his statement made in May 2023 when he committed his future to Feyenoord for an additional year before joining the Reds.

Slot was being linked to the job at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium prior to Ange Postecoglou's arrival but stated at end of the 2022/23 campaign amid speculation his “wish is to stay at Feyenoord and continue working on what we created last year."



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Asked how close an agreement ever came with Spurs, Slot declined to shed any further light on the situation, saying: "You can [ask] but I think it’s the same answer that I always give you about Mo Salah's contract situation and those things!

"No, I always said that in football and in general, so many things that are said are not true.

"But the problem is that the ones who know do not want to talk about it and the ones who don’t know do want to talk about it.

There are players or managers who do want to talk to you and tell you off the record what has happened, but that is always one part of the truth.

"I’ve always preferred not to say anything about it.

It was just me being a fan of football, me having watched a lot of football.

For me, it’s also a bit like I want to…if a manager plays such an attacking brand of football, please support him, because this is what we want.

At least that is what I think.

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"Only one team can win the league and only one team can win the FA Cup, but the others have to play football as well and just be happy that we have managers like him that want to play this brand of football and that is why I even hope he wins something.

"Because when he starts to win something, people will start to get positive and then other managers will try to do the same.

I always hope that the ones who play the most attacking football win trophies as well."


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