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They have chosen Slot to replace the irreplaceable and Liverpool fans are muted in their response to the Dutchman’s imminent arrival.

Ten Hag does not help as, like Slot now, he was seen as Holland’s best coach when Manchester United prised him from Ajax two years ago.

After a great first season when he won the Carabao Cup and finished third to give United the Champions League football they crave, this campaign has been little short of a car crash.

With co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe having changed everything at United, ten Hag is expected to go once the season is over having failed in the club’s target of reaching the Champions League.

That is the backdrop to Slot taking over at Anfield and he is seen as the best coach in Holland, having won the Eredivisie title in 2023 and the Dutch Cup this season(

But this has not dissuaded Liverpool’s returning football guru Michael Edwards and new football director Richard Hughes from selecting him.

They feel he is the ideal man to slot - pardon the pun - into the new structure Liverpool are creating for the post-Klopp era.

Liverpool is far more stable and FSG have constantly looked to improve the club, while the Glazers seemed happy to sit in Florida and milk the money-making cow that is United.

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With Hughes and Slot, he will identify and sign the players Liverpool feel can take them forward as the leading lights in the club’s transfer committee!

Contrast this situation with last summer when Klopp selection Jorg Schmadtke was football director and he essentially signed the players the Reds boss wanted.

Slot will have a less powerful role at Liverpool, but Dutch football championed this new structure and he will be perfectly at home within it.

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He will be given time and the minimum goal next season will be to challenge for Champions League football and not win anything.

That task will get harder over the next couple of seasons and Manchester City and Arsenal are not going anywhere, while moneybags United and Newcastle will come again.

Liverpool know this, but they feel Slot has the same knack Rafa Benitez and Klopp had of upsetting the bigger clubs in their homelands to bring success.

That is the template for Liverpool and that is why they feel Slot is for them.

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