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Although they won their first five matches, things have since taken a turn for the worse, with the Liverpool squad looking bizarrely worse for the heavy investment.For Slot, he now has no place to hide. He could have reason to be resentful towards the Reds this season.Nevertheless, the German knows a good football team when he sees one and while speaking to Steven Bartlett for Diary of a CEO, Klopp suggested that Slot now has a ‘perfect squad’ at Liverpool.READ MORE: Jurgen Klopp clears up exactly who signed Darwin Nunez for Liverpool and why“Isak is an incredible striker, incredible striker.
It’s just a really, really good squad,” he said. Now he’s injured that doesn’t help, you might be short in that position, but otherwise it’s a perfect squad.
You don’t have to worry about Liverpool, they will be fine.”While it is good to hear the legendary former Liverpool manager speak some calming words on the Reds’ current predicament, he may have inadvertently ramped up the pressure on Slot.The Liverpool squad is indeed incredibly good, so why exactly is the head coach struggling so badly to make it work? For the right manager they could become simply incredible.Slot can definitely still be that right man for Liverpool, but there have to be some positive signs soon.If the Reds cannot get going under his leadership, there is a chance that he is simply not the person needed for the long-term growth of the team.‘Perfect’ is perhaps too strong a word for Klopp to use for the current squad.