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Dutch defender Van Dijk said again this week that he has no update on his own contract talks as the saga rumbles on with just over two months of the season to go.

The Premier League title is also on the way in May but they will be without Trent Alexander-Arnold for Sunday’s final.

Slot believes hooking Quansah at half time of his first game back in August against Ipswich has helped the defender improve.

He said: “If being substituted at half-time is a setback then almost every player has more than a few setbacks during his career.

"It was more that people were a bit like 'Oooh' about what I said after the game in that they were not used to a manager or me being so clear about what I saw and what I did.

“Mentality-wise it might have been a big moment for him, that Ipswich game, because now he has experienced that people were not only positive about him like last season – although he made one or two mistakes then as well – he also knows now he can fight his way back if people are, all of a sudden, not positive any more.

“That is something every player should experience at the start of his career because a football career is never always going up it is going a bit like this [waves his hand up and down] and now he knows he can fight back after a situation he experienced after the Ipswich game.”

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