Arne Slot believes that Liverpool will still look quite similar to the Jurgen Klopp era when they trot out under his direction in the Premier League.
Slot told club media that he intends to instill a possession-based game but with an intensity that matches the time under Klopp.
He added that Liverpool wouldn t be out to play keep-ball but would seek to hurt their opponents when they have possession.
“Style of play has been with my teams where I worked, I think, always the same,” Slot said. “There are a lot of similarities with Jürgen Klopp, with the way they played in the past, and I’m hoping we will see these similarities in the upcoming weeks and months.
“We like to have the ball, we don’t like the other team to have the ball… but the Premier League is a league where many good clubs are and many clubs want to have the ball, so we have to fight really hard for us to have the ball.
“And if we have it, we want to score, we want to be intense in everything we do. If we have the ball, we want to score – that’s quite simple of course! We want to be intense in everything we do.
“Maybe the only slight difference there is, is that after we win the ball, I like to go forward just as Jürgen liked it, but I sometimes like it when players try to keep the ball and not play the difficult ball, where Jürgen or the former regime maybe liked the chaotic scenes in and around the 16 a lot as well. They were really, really, really successful with that for so many years.
“But it sometimes also depends a bit on the players you have. I think we’re trying to find the balance between trying to create chaos at certain moments and trying to keep possession of the ball a bit longer in other moments.”
Slot doesn t believe that coaching in England will be that different from his work in the Netherlands, although he admitted he was expecting a greater intensity to things while mentoring in the Premier League.
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He joked that football is football no matter where it is played and believes that differences will be academic.
“The good thing is that also abroad and even in England, they play 11 v 11,” he said with a smile. “In the rest of the world we drive on the left side, but in England they drive on the right! But in football, they just keep it with 11 v 11! So that’s a good thing! That’s not going to change.
“The teams we face are different, the managers I face are different, but the same things apply. The week or the two weeks before you play the next opponent, you try to understand in the best possible way how they play and how you have to react on that.
