"First of all, the tragedy impacted us, of course, most," said Slot.

As you know from me – and I think every manager works like this – you never talk about players that are not yours," Slot remarked.



But there is indeed a chance he is going to leave."

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Of course, this isn't the first time we've heard the line about Slot only wishing to talk about his own players.

Slot actually tackled this question a little more head-on, defending the current options:

"What you just said, they [Ryan Gravenberch, Andy Robertson and Wataru Endo] can definitely play there as well.

"I think most of the players that they have are still there, so even more reason to know what a difficult team it is to play against."

Slot was also asked to preview the threat posed by Crystal Palace:

"Counter-attacks, set pieces, long ball to Mateta, so they have also indivdual quality of their forwards who can create something out of nothing.

"There are other options for me to replace Mo with as well — but Jeremie is definitely one of them."

That was interesting, especially as we've only seen Frimpong at full-back in preseason