Liverpool was one of the busiest clubs on the transfer market this summer, but Reds -Baas Arne Slot believes that one area is overlooked when assessing the work of the club this summer
Arne Slot has received the attention of Liverpool's large editions on the transfer market and emphasized the outputs with which he also had to deal with. The Reds have seen a lot of turnover, despite winning the Premier League in the first season of the Dutchman.
Liverpool broke the British transfer record to land Florian Wirtz for a maximum of £ 116 million and the expenditure of the team violated £ 300 million with the arrivals of Hugo Ekitike, Jeremie Frimpong, Milos Kerzez and Giorgi Mhamardashvili. And the incoming company may not be complete with speculation that will continue with the future of Alexander Isak in Newcastle.
But Slot does not believe that this tells the whole story while he is involved in the departure of players who played an important role in bringing a title to Anfield last season. The Merseyside Club is obliged to replace and rebuild their team in recent months instead of easy to improve.
“What I feel is not spoken enough – although you have to make your own decision when you talk about it – [is that] I have lost four players who have started regularly, “said Slot.” And one of them, I, we, his family, lost him. That's Diogo.
'Then Darwin might be about to leave. Luis Diaz was a clear starter and Trent [Alexander-Arnold] was a clear starter.
“So normally teams in the Premier League buy alone and we never sell. We both do. We have lost players in a good phase of their career. I am used to that, and it sometimes also gives new energy.”
The boss of Liverpool has less than a week until the title defense of the team starts against Bournemouth and three weeks until the transfer window is closed. The Reds are still linked to Isak, while a number of stars such as Harvey Elliott could still leave.
As a result, Slot does not want to make premature judgments about whether he has a better team at his disposal than 12 months ago. The 46-year-old will only make that assessment as soon as Augustus is over.
“That is something that I can only tell you on September 1, because the window is open for another three weeks. So I feel that the players we have brought have already done really well, as we have brought them in.
“But I can't tell you now whether these players can perform at the same level every three days, so we first have to start the season [to see]. And I knew that Luis Diaz could do that, and all others could do that. So that is another challenge at the Premier League, because we play so many games. “