Liverpool boss reveals text messages with Eddie Howe as Alexander Isak fallout continues
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Arne Slot has only exchanged text messages with one fellow Premier League manager and that's Eddie Howe.
"The only manager I've ever texted with was Eddie Howe (in the Premier League ).
It is in attack where they are lacking given Isak's injury and the inability to secure several forward targets, including Hugo Ekitike, who will feature for Liverpool.
Slot and Howe share a mutual connection through Richard Hughes, Liverpool's sporting director who previously played alongside the Newcastle manager at Portsmouth before collaborating at Bournemouth, and he acknowledges this as the foundation of their relationship.
"In general I have sympathy for Eddie Howe because he is a great human being, he's always polite, so that is my general feeling about him," said the Liverpool boss.
For the rest, I don't need to have sympathy for a manager that can still have the availability of [Anthony] Gordon, [Jacob] Murphy, Elanga, [Harvey] Barnes.
"They didn't replace [Callum] Wilson did they?
You don't need to have sympathy for a manager who has so many good players in his squad.
I don't even know if it is what the players and the manager are thinking as well.