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Arne Slot revealed that Trent Alexander-Arnold spent plenty of time in his office during pre-season last summer as the Liverpool head coach was not happy with the player's work rate in training.

Slot made the admission after he was asked whether he had spoken to Alexander-Arnold about the boos he received at Anfield earlier this month, ahead of his last-ever game for the club, at home to Crystal Palace on Sunday.

"I talk to most players, not on a daily basis, but a lot," Slot said.



"If there are circumstances why I should talk to them, you talk a bit more often to them.

It's clear with Trent's situation that those circumstances are there for me to talk to him.

"I am talking to him as a human being.

When we started pre-season, he was in my office quite a lot as well for similar reasons to what Mo has said previously.

"He is going to leave either way so why not say it?

I told him, 'you are a much better defender than people tell you, but you don't show it all the time.' I said, 'if you are at it and concentrated, there are not many players who can go around you'.