Arne Slot that specialize in avid gamers Liverpool will nonetheless have after Alexander-Arnold

Arne Slot is making plans to show Trent Alexander-Arnold’s Anfield departure into a favorable for Liverpool, the pinnacle trainer has stated. The right-back will go away Merseyside this summer time for Real Madrid on a loose switch, which means the Dutchman will want to give you the chance of changing him.

Conor Bradley is about to start out Sunday’s Premier League assembly with Arsenal at Anfield as arrangements proceed for subsequent season with the identify secured. Slot would possibly have to seem outdoor the membership for somebody to problem the Northern Ireland world for the right-back berth.

“If I could make the choice, I would prefer Trent to stay,” Slot stated. “I’m not going to change everything, but it’s different Trent playing than Conor playing, or Joe Gomez playing, or Curtis Jones playing, so it does bring up the thing I like: finding answers for the qualities we have now in our team, because Conor brings in different qualities than Trent.

“It also gives you energy if new players come in as well, or if you just joined a new club, so last season all of them were new for me. It doesn’t always have to lead to something negative.”

Of the 3 avid gamers who had been out of contract, this is a aid that Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk will keep at Liverpool. “I was hoping for all three of them to stay,” Slot stated. “It’s still a bit of a disappointment that one of those three decided to leave. But I’m very, very, very happy about Virgil and Mo extending their contract. I think that reached the headlines and everybody spoke about it a lot already, but that should not be forgotten.”

There used to be doable for Sunday’s fixture to play a vital position within the identify race however second-placed Arsenal had been not able to stay alongside of Liverpool. Slot stated of his counterpart Mikel Arteta: “He’s working there for five years, he should get a lot of credit for the way his team plays because they can play almost every style.

“They can play off set pieces, they can defend in the low blocks and be the dominant team, they can play a high press, they can build up from the back, they play the long ball. Every part of the game, they are good. It’s quite difficult to analyse them, because you don’t know what you can expect on Sunday.”