Arne Slot responds to Virgil van Dijk unplanned Liverpool team meeting - 'None of them should'

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Nevertheless, three straight Premier League reverses have seen Liverpool slip four points behind leaders and new title favourites Arsenal.Sunday's miserable 2-1 home loss to bitter North West rivals Manchester United prompted current Anfield captain Virgil van Dijk to call an impromptu players-only meeting the following day to thrash out where things were going wrong.READ MORE: Arne Slot addresses Mohamed Salah Liverpool upset at being dropped - 'I hope he is not'READ MORE: 'Jordan Henderson was my troublemaker at Liverpool - I had to keep my eye on him'And Slot believes his fellow Dutchman was right to offer a different voice to the suffering squad."What Virgil did and what I did is what you need to do, what all the players did," said the Liverpool boss. That was something I was not happy about."It would not be good if the voice they were hearing was always me.

That is why they hear my assistants too."And I don’t think it was like Virgil brought them over and said (gestures working on a tactics board): 'From now on we must play like this'."We have five players who are captains of their national team. You need that with experience, all of them can have a proper conversation."I encourage them to take responsibility and talk to each other, whether they are in the sauna or swimming pool, or when they are standing around with five or six of them."But if we have a leader like Virgil with so much respect in the group, then it is a good thing."Slot added: "I have had this experience maybe 250,000 times.

I think they do."They constantly talk, sometimes that is done with everybody and sometimes just the leadership group."They talk and they should do. That is meant as a compliment, but most of mine in the Dutch league were 22 or 23 because if they did well, they would go somewhere else after good performances."Virgil has done what I expected of him with his own performances.