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Tom Werner, Chairman of Liverpool, Michael Gordon, President of Fenway Sports Group and John Henry, Principle Owner of Liverpool and his wife Linda Pizzuti Henry(Image: (Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images))

On the back of a hugely successful season, it's fitting that Tom Werner begins by hoisting aloft one of the giant pieces of silverware that decorate his home office in the United States.

But rather than continuing to bask in the glory of a Premier League title-winning term for Arne Slot and his players at Anfield, that the Liverpool chairman is in possession of a Champions League replica is in some way symbolic of perhaps what might still be to come.

"It is an exciting time right now but we wake up every day and I keep using the word 'relentless,'" Werner tells the ECHO in an exclusive chat.



Now I think not a lot of people felt he would come in and win the Premier League this year but we did feel we would be in the top four."

The prospect of succeeding the wildly popular Klopp will have been a daunting one for many a coach, particularly given his profile as one of the leading lights of modern management, but Slot's self-assurance ensured no supporter was harking back to the previous regime with anything other than fondness as the Reds went about storming their way to the title.

Arriving with the job title of 'head coach' to represent the changing of the dynamics within the AXA Training Centre itself, Slot spoke alongside Hughes at an arranged press conference last summer to mark their arrival.

Slot chatted about his desire to see first hand how good the Reds' squad was before making any significant decisions on recruitment as Hughes also revealed of the "opportunistic" strategy for the window at the time.

"To be fair and complimentary to Jurgen, he left the club in very good shape and Arne didn't feel as though he needed to bring in three or four new players," Werner says.

I wouldn't say the appointment was left-field but it is easy to say in retrospect it was the right decision to employ Arne but we felt at the time it was the right decision.

"If you ask the players how it worked with Arne - and they could have been a lot more prove-it-to-me to him - but they trusted him.

"There was a lot of noise last year that we didn't go out and sign somebody for £100m but Arne felt the right thing to do was work with the squad he has.

It is exciting and I hope in a year we can say it was the right decision, I hope so."

Leverkusen had initially demanded €150 (£127m) for Wirtz but Liverpool never had any intention of going that high for the attacking midfielder and after around three weeks of detailed and exhaustive negotiations, a fee of £116m was agreed.

But I do think it was important to bring in new faces."

One player who has waved goodbye is vice-captain Trent Alexander-Arnold, who ended a 20-year association with his boyhood club at the start of June, joining Real Madrid in a £10m deal 30 days before his contract expired when he would have signed as a free agent.

The departure was something of an acrimonious one between player and fanbase, with the England international subjected to loud boos during the 2-2 draw with Arsenal last month at Anfield, having made clear his decision to leave the club earlier that week.

For FSG, though, Alexander-Arnold's time is only reflected upon with gratitude, with Werner saying: "We do respect the fact that Trent has moved on.
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