Arne Slot facing more heat at Liverpool as point made on Jurgen Klopp's 'kids'

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Rio Ngumoha's usage has also been criticized, further underlining growing concerns over Slot’s man-management abilities Arne Slot has been criticized for his treatment of some Liverpool youngsters Soon after Slot joined Liverpool, he defended what was dubbed a "culling" of Klopp's kids. “That’s always a difficult one, because young players want to play as well and if they want to develop they have to play,” he explained in 2024.

“It’s always like this. They come through the ranks of the youth academy and either then you’re good enough to play for us many minutes or you’re still not there, or there’s too much competition in your position.

It’s always a challenge to find the right moment, either to play them or if they’ve played quite a lot of minutes they want to make the next step in their career. “If they want to play somewhere and it’s not possible with us, and they’re not happy with 500 or 600 minutes – because these youngsters didn’t play many Premier League games, they played a few games in the cup – then you have to, in my opinion, let them develop somewhere else.” Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.