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Liverpool head coach Arne Slot.(Image: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

Arne Slot has confirmed he will rotate his champion Liverpool squad for the remainder of the Premier League campaign as he starts to plan for next season.

The Reds begin their victory lap when they travel to Chelsea on Sunday afternoon having last weekend secured the championship with four games remaining.

Having relied on a core of players to win the club's 20th title and second in five years, Slot will greater utilise his options over the closing weeks, with his team also having home games against Arsenal and Crystal Palace either side of a visit to Brighton.

Wataru Endo, Harvey Elliott and Federico Chiesa are yet to start a Premier League this season while Jarell Quansah has been in the XI only twice.

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And all four are likely to be among those given an opportunity as Slot begins to consider the make-up of his squad for next term's title defence.

"It's nice that we play some very strong teams so that gives us immediately a challenge," said the Reds boss.

Some of them deserve to have played earlier this season because they have trained so well and are good enough to play for this club, but I mainly chose the same players.

"This is also a moment to see where they are, also looking towards next season a bit already, but definitely also because they deserve to play this season.

"It's not now that all the ones that have played all the games are not going to play any more, and all the other ones are going to play now.

I did this once before, at Plymouth away (in the FA Cup), and I got quite a bit of criticism by you (the assembled journalists), didn't I?

"We will mix it up, but it's not going to be four games with the same line-up as we had against Tottenham.”

Elliott started 11 Premier League games last season but has been restricted to 14 substitute outings this term having missed much of the opening third with a foot injury.

"Harvey is one of the players that hasn't had as much playing time as he maybe deserved, but like some others he's in competition with so many good players," said Slot.

"He was injured for a long time, and I've been honest with him, the first part after he came back from his injury he wasn't the same as he was before his injury, but the last few months he's back to his old level again.

"But there was no need for me to start with different players, but I think if you look at the amount of minutes he had in the last one or two months, and the time before, you can see it goes up already, so that tells you that I like him more now than I did when he came back from his injury."

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Of the fringe players, Slot added: “I don't think they have anything to prove to me, because I see them every single day in the training ground and I've seen them playing for us in the past, or this season, Federico not in the past, but he has had a great career at other clubs as well.

"So I don't think these players have to prove the quality players they are, but I think they want to prove for themselves that they are good enough to play for us, and I already know that they are, and probably they themselves know this as well."

Liverpool could welcome back Conor Bradley after the Northern Irish right-back missed last weekend's 5-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur after picking up a knock in training.

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“He will train with us today, so let's see how he does," said Slot on Friday morning.
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