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Liverpool were crowned Premier League champions on Sunday as Arne Slot made history in his first year in charge at Anfield.

The Dutch manager joined the exclusive list of Liverpool coaches to win the league title with Slot evolving Jurgen Klopp’s final squad with the Reds into one of the best in Europe and a team to be feared in the Premier League.

With Rio Ferdinand praising the work Slot has done at Liverpool, few fans would have predicted how good the former Feyenoord manager would be this season after succeeding Klopp, who to many is the best coach the Merseyside giants have had in the 21st century.

Yet football legend Ruud Gullit believes work done by Klopp and Liverpool is something that every club should be looking to copy in the future.

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Speaking on Stick to Football, Gullit highlighted how Klopp restoring Liverpool’s identity and club DNA led to Slot winning the Premier League this season, with the Reds deliberately choosing to appoint a manager with a similar style and philosophy to the German last summer.

With clubs like Chelsea and Manchester City not having much of a historic identity or DNA and Manchester United completely losing who they are in the last decade, Liverpool’s rise could be pinned to Klopp restoring that image of what the club is what they aim to do on and off the field.

And Gullit seems to agree, with the former Netherlands international saying: “What I like, for instance, for Liverpool is that Klopp gave you a DNA, it’s what Liverpool is all about, now they’ve got another coach who did exactly the same.

That’s what you need to do, you don’t need to get a new coach who does something totally different, you have to build on that same DNA, and what I see with a lot of clubs is that they lose that.”

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We often hear throwaway lines from numerous clubs in the Premier League about how a certain team is supposed to play and act, from the Arsenal way to the West Ham way, yet Liverpool appear to be the only establishment in the English top-flight where this blanket statement is not only true, but aspiring.

Liverpool under Klopp prided themselves in playing entertaining football with a never-say-die attitude, a philosophy that’s somewhat adapted under Slot but not strayed far away from the initial philosophy established by the former Anfield manager.

And for many clubs around the world, Liverpool’s plan to stick with Klopp’s core mantras whilst looking for their next manager is something to aspire towards, with teams these days too quick to uproot and change direction whenever something isn’t going to plan.


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