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After celebrating a Premier League title in Ibiza, now hardly seems the time for Arne Slot to harbour regret.
Indeed, his debut season at Liverpool was nothing short of remarkable, something the Dutchman surely dreamt of when he arrived on Merseyside.
Yet, it's the Champions League hiccup against Paris Saint-Germain that will undoubtedly inform Slot's strategy moving forward.
Despite topping the league phase of the tournament, Liverpool were dealt an early blow facing PSG, a match-up Slot labels as unfortunate timing: "We were in the wrong place in the wrong time, facing Paris Saint-Germain,” he reflected ahead of Monday’s trip to Brighton & Hove Albion.
Slot also wonders if he might have kept his team sharper for their early March clash by rotating his squad more diligently in the run-up.
His reflection leads to an admission: "I think at that moment of time, that wasn't our best part of the season, although the home game we played really well.
However, the challenge for Slot was managing the high performance levels, which made him hesitant to shift his line-up too much.
He observes a past reluctance to tweak the team composition: "All the times I've rotated a bit too much, that didn't lead to us being successful.
"As we all know, we went out of the [FA] Cup in Plymouth, and against PSV [in the final Champions League league phase game] we lost, which wasn't an important game anymore.
“And I think I made six substitutions against Paris Saint-Germain, where the extra time wasn't our best period of the game.”
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Between the lines, it could be implied that Slot harbours doubts over whether a squad that has dominated domestically can replicate such success on both fronts.
He acknowledges this, stating: "If I look at the way we think about next season and our squad, these are things that are on my mind
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