Arne Slot admits Liverpool no longer benefit from Jurgen Klopp “gift”

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Liverpool head coach Arne Slot believes he benefited from the aura of Jurgen Klopp in his first season, but knows the situation has changed now they are the defending Premier League champions. “The first part of last season, Jurgen gave me a lot of gifts but one of the gifts he also gave me was ending up third the year before and fifth the year before that, and him being so well known that a new manager came in and everyone thought ‘oh, let’s start to play against Liverpool’,” said the Dutchman.

“Teams played in a completely different way in the first half of the season against us than they did when we were top of the league after half of the season and top of the Champions League after the first part of the season. “Alisson is not a part of the squad tomorrow and he is not going to travel to Brazil for the national team,” said Slot ahead of the trip to Chelsea.

It’s clear he’s not going to play for Brazil. “We knew we were bringing in a very good goalkeeper but when he played his first game [against Southampton in the Carabao Cup] that is always the best way to see if he has adjusted well or not, and you saw in that game that he has adjusted well to our club,” said Slot.