Arne Slot lifts lid on FSG talks as Liverpool problems 'postponed' after Jurgen Klopp exit

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All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook pageAnd Slot has revealed the challenges of breaking up a successful squad and overseeing the lessening impact of long-established players were among the chief talking points with the Liverpool hierarchy from the moment he assumed the reins."I’m not saying this is what we are seeing but this is one of the things we are aligned on – not now, but one-and-a-half years ago," he said."It is normal in football that you have cycles. But it is so obvious and so clear, it is not difficult to see all the problems we faced."I cannot tell you what we are saying to each other but I think we all see the same.

Everyone sees what is happening in front of our eyes and we are all aligned in what we are seeing and on the reasons for it."Asked about the manner of the support he receives, Slot added: "It’s not so easy to sit down with the owners because they are from America so, as you would expect, it’s phone calls and messages."With Richard, he is here a lot of the time and we are sitting down together and if he is not here then it is phone calls."But it’s not about every day they are saying ‘we support you, we support you’. It is talking through what we see is happening and, sometimes, it is not always needed to say ‘I am supporting you’ but you can feel that support.

That is not always to say when I have won I made the right decision and when we lose I make the wrong decision."The other day many say we changed the tactics towards PSG, we would never know the outcome would have been if we played the usual 4-3-3. Now I can understand people say this was the wrong decision because we lost 2-0."If you win things you think you make more right decisions than if we lose.