Arne Slot will certainly be grateful for all the change at Liverpool this summer.

Assistant manager Pep Lijnders and goalkeeping coach John Achterberg both pre-date the German at Liverpool, yet have nonetheless decided that now is the time to move on.

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The fear is that there is a 'brain drain' effect.

Slot already has a daunting enough task trying to replace Klopp; dropping him into the exact same backroom structure and asking him to emulate what the German has achieved would be setting him up to fail.

Slot has been chosen in part for his tactical similarities to Klopp, and Liverpool will not be going right back to the drawing board.

But with the club having effectively cleaned house, the new head coach will not be unduly bound by old ideas, and will have more of an opportunity to put his own stamp on things.

Had he been working with all of the same staff, there's a sense that Slot would have been tasked with essentially keeping the ship on its current course, the one plotted by Klopp.

That's the other obvious benefit — while Liverpool will still need to agree compensation packages, the clear-out at Anfield makes it far easier to parachute in Slot's chosen Feyenoord aides.

Per This is Anfield, Slot will bring assistant Sipke Hulsoff, head of performance Ruben Peeters, and technical advisor Etienne Reijnen with him from Feyenoord.

There's no denying that all of the departures are daunting, but that's as much of an opportunity as a challenge for Slot — and as head coach rather than manager, he will not navigate this exciting new Liverpool era alone.