Below is a summary of the full article. Click here for the full version or go back to LFC Live.net

First, on Sunday, comes the moment Virgil van Dijk finally thrusts that Premier League trophy in the Anfield sky following the final game of the season against Crystal Palace.

Then the following day, the Liverpool players and coaching staff will embark on a parade around the city with upwards of a million people expected to be in attendance to salute their team's achievement.

Read More.



"I think proud sums it up the most because after working here for a year now I know how hard it is.

"The Premier League is the hardest trophy to win because cup trophies, you can win those by a lucky draw or being lucky in two or three games or win a penalty shoot-out and then you arrive in a final.

"But it is always harder to win the league because it is 38 games in a period of time where I think the league has never been as strong as it is and there has never been as much competition for teams to even go to the Champions League.

"And there has not been a season where 16th and 17th play in the final of the Europa League.

That is what makes it so hard so it will be a proud moment for me, the players and the fans so let's hope it's going to be special."

Van Dijk will be handed the trophy by Alan Hansen, the Liverpool centre-back legend who three times skippered the club to the title.

Hansen won eight league championships overall in 12 seasons, and Slot believes he will learn more in the summer about whether his current squad are capable of enjoying a similar sequence of success.

"We have a lot to compete next season again but what I don’t know yet, and that's going to be the interesting one, is if we have this elite mentality, this serial winner mentality of showing up season after season after season," he says.

"I get the answer on July 8 when we come back (for pre-season training), seeing what shape the players are in

Many teams have won the Premier League once but not many years in a row and that's for a reason

Now is the time for Liverpool and Slot to celebrate a job very well done in the Premier League this season.