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View image in fullscreen‘Arne Slot loves to work with people … he opens the eyes of the players’

The Dutchman leaves Feyenoord after a dream tenure and can emulate how Jürgen Klopp makes fans feel special

For most of Sunday, Rotterdam sat under a thick blanket of cloud, but as day ticked into evening, just as fans were streaming into De Kuip for Feyenoord’s penultimate home fixture of the season, the skies cleared.

Arne Slot, overseeing his 100th league game in charge, watched from the touchline and his son, Joep, who for the best part of three years had dreamed of being allowed into the noisiest part of the ground, stood among the ultras in the Gerard Meijer Tribune.

In the 82nd minute, the entire ground sung his father’s name and, just as Slot lifted his hands above his head to return their applause, Santiago Giménez scored the final goal in a 5-0 win.

Football rarely permits moments of such infinite perfection.

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“It’s not a normal situation for a manager that the fans are singing your name, let alone that they do it in such a way, with the whole stadium singing,” Slot said later.

I told my friends that we were living a dream with him, and now the dream is coming to an end.”

In his first season in Rotterdam, Slot took Feyenoord to third place in the league and the Europa Conference League final.

Now he is leaving for Liverpool, but as Slot conducted the fans’ roars after the final whistle it was hard to tell if this was an ideal moment to depart, or a ludicrous one.

“Yes, that’s a different judgment to make every time,” Slot said.

I think when you ask anybody here in the stadium, ‘What do you think of Arne Slot?’ everybody will say, ‘Give him a statue, or name the stadium after him.’ Yeah, he is very popular here.”

If Sunday played out like a dream, it must have come as little surprise to a group of fans who have spent three years living one.