Arne Slot eyes ‘extra weapons’ for Liverpool in transfers and tactical tweaks

Liverpool will attempt to upload “extra weapons” this summer time to take the Premier League champions to the following degree, Arne Slot has mentioned. In addition to plans to beef up the squad by way of the switch marketplace, the top trainer is plotting tactical tweaks to stay the workforce evolving.

The avid gamers got 4 days off after the house draw with Arsenal however go back to motion on Monday night time at Brighton. With best spot secured, considering has became to recruitment and Liverpool are set to speculate this summer time. Slot has been protecting conferences with the carrying director, Richard Hughes, over plans to beef up in positive spaces. The Bayer Leverkusen defender Jeremie Frimpong is a key goal and the membership are set to cause his €35m (£29.5m) free up clause.

“I think we can find one or two extra weapons this team doesn’t have,” Slot mentioned. “Maybe, maybe, by using the transfer market. That is what we are trying to achieve. That will make us only stronger. That is what we need because we saw [Manchester] City spending £200m in the [January] transfer window. All of them will. Apart from the transfer window, we can also improve certain aspects ourselves.”

As with maximum groups difficult on the best, Liverpool were the sufferer of the opposition the usage of underhand strategies in suits in an try to disrupt the rhythm, which has obviously annoyed Slot. “One of the things you cannot do anything about is that tactics are being used that have nothing to do with football,” he mentioned. “Delaying the start of the game, pretending you are injured, taking one minute for a free-kick, one minute for a throw-in. That is my main worry. When we have dropped points, that tactic was used. I like to say it now after us winning the league, not [after] losing a game.

“I don’t wake up during the night but if I did I might be like: ‘Shit. There’s no answer to be found to that type of play.’ Every time we drop points, that happened … goalkeepers taking one and a half minutes. I am hoping for the league … Rúben Dias said something about it [about Southampton’s negative tactics], too, which is not always the best moment to say it after dropping points. But for me he was right. Southampton can do what they want but we as a league must find an answer.

“People always tell you the Premier League is so intense, so intense. But there are tactics to slow the game down.”