Arne Slot’s perfect vision of Liverpool is finally about to come true next season
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Liverpool look set to undergo another summer of change in 2026, with Arne Slot ready to put the finishing touches to his vision of the team.Slot oversaw a huge amount of churn last year, with the Reds arguably changing far too much to a team which had just won the Premier League.However, the transfers in and out were necessary to allow Slot to build his vision for Liverpool, and with news arriving that the Reds are set to hire Etienne Reijnen as his new assistant, the Dutchman will complete the transition in the coming months. FSG would be crazy to keep Arne Slot if Liverpool lose to Brentford… right?
13 Premier League defeats would be more than Brendan Rodgers’ last full season!!Credit: Winslow Townson/Getty Images Reijnen will allow Slot to implement tactical visionWhen Slot arrived at Liverpool in 2024, he did so having tried – and failed – to take Reijnen with him from Feyenoord.Clearly, the make-up of a head coach’s backroom team is vital to how he runs day-to-day operations, and the hiring of John Heitinga and then Giovanni van Bronckhorst have obviously given different things to the Liverpool coaching staff.It isn’t only that Heitinga was successful and Van Bronckhorst not, the pair will have had differing tactical ideas and ways of running sessions and interacting with the players.Neither were Slot’s initial choices, and though he ultimately has the final say in all coaching matters, it is important that he is able to finally bring in the man he wanted all along. Photo by ANP via Getty ImagesREAD MORE: Fabrizio Romano confirms which winger Liverpool will target if Yan Diomande chooses to join PSGIn Reijnen and Sipke Hulshoff, he has two men who made his Feyenoord team champions in 2023, and knows exactly how the dynamics of the team will work.
That is going to be crucial in improving Liverpool’s fortunes.They are clearly all on the same page tactically, and being settled in this team of three should help Slot to finally put the stamp he wants on Liverpool.Summer of further change will cement squad make-upThroughout his two years at Liverpool so far, it has been almost impossible to know how Slot ideally wants the Reds to set up.His first year was simply tweaking the players left to him by Jurgen Klopp, while this year has been muddled, transitional and hit by injuries to key players, especially in attack.The incoming and outgoing deals last year hinted at what Slot might want, but it was impossible to do all the business Liverpool needed to in one summer. Rate Arne Slot’s second season as Liverpool head coach Can anyone make a serious argument for higher than a C? 😶 Photo Credit: Getty Images/Carl Recine While things still may not be completed this year, we should get much, much closer to seeing what kind of style Slot is pushing to bring in.Five transfer windows should be more than enough for any manager to make his mark on a squad of players, and by the end of this summer we should be able to see the profiles that Slot wants in his team.Those changes, along with Reijnen joining, will help to finally paint the vision of Liverpool that the 47-year-old saw when he first joined two years ago.FSG have so far maintained their willingness to back Slot, and once his changes have been rubber-stamped and completed, there will be no further excuses next season.