Another Transfer Window Will Fix Liverpool – Slot

Liverpool manager Arne Slot has acknowledged that the club’s 4-2 defeat Aston Villa could prove damaging in their pursuit of UEFA Champions League qualification. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

Admitting that he understands fans’ frustrations after a hugely disappointing campaign, Slot revealed that Liverpool supporters shouldn’t underestimate what a transfer window can do.

Slot added that missing 9 quality players ended up affecting his team against a very good Aston Villa side.

His words, “It’s damaging because we needed either a win or maybe, maybe, maybe two draws would have been enough as well.

But now we know one thing for sure — we need a win next week if we have to do it ourselves.

The other teams of course need to pick up points as well for us to need a win. That’s really damaging that we were not able to get a result let alone a win here today.

There were parts in the game where I felt a result could have gone our way but I think people are mainly focused on the period after the 2-1 where we couldn’t find any momentum anymore and we conceded two other goals. That was the most difficult period in the game.

It is frustrating because as a manager you are also responsible for if things happen time and time again — you are hired to try to prevent that for the next time.

I can understand that at this moment in time [the fans] don’t have a lot of confidence or a lot of feeling that things can be much better next season but I think then they are underestimating what a [transfer] window can do, what a new start can do.

I think we know quite well what to improve. One of the things we have to improve is very, very obvious and I would have preferred not to talk about it here but you’re actually almost forcing me to.

If you miss nine players that can start a game of football and almost all of them are starters for us — or have been for large parts of the season — then if you add that to what you can improve in a window and add that to players that are playing for the second season in the Premier League — and I think we saw that the adaptation for a few of them took some time — that will automatically lead to much more.

My opinion — and nobody has to agree with me — is that, even today, for large parts of the game we were close to a result but when you are the better team, you need to generate more chances and score them and we cannot concede as many set pieces as we have conceded this season.

I don’t think the difference is so big, only doing the right thing in a few situations can have a massive upwards possibility.”

WOW.