Curtis Jones has highlighted Slot’s impact on the Reds first-team, with a number of Liverpool players improving since the Dutchman’s arrival.

But at Liverpool, it’s been seamless, it would have been very easy for the players to take their foot off the gas and for us to be fourth or fifth and they could say it’s because Jurgen is not here.

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“So as much as he’s been fantastic, I have to make special praise of the players who have taken on board what he wants because it would have been easy for them not to do that because if they didn’t win no one would have blamed the players as they will say it’s because of the manager.

“It’s a real accumulative factor of both the players and the manager Lots of managers have qualities, if you look at when Sir Alex Ferguson left Manchester United, Mourinho is not a bad manager, David Moyes, Louis van Gaal.

The players have to take a lot of credit but he has been incredible.”

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Having seen the likes of Manchester United fail to transition after the exit of an iconic manager, Slot has shown the footballing world you can move on if you get the appointment right.



Debut campaign statsGamesWinsDrawsLossesPoints per gameArne Slot (Liverpool)4734762.32Jose Mourinho (Man United)64371892.02Erik ten Hag (Man United)62428122.16David Moyes (Man United)512610151.73Louis van Gaal (Man United)442311101.82Stats correct as of 24/03/2025

The Liverpool first-team has problems to address this summer and it will be interesting to see how Slot gets on signing his own players rather than using those left by Klopp.
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