It will be two years since the departure of Juger Klopp of Anfield after nine seasons in which the modern history of the game changed Liverpool. However, it is after the elimination against PSG in eighths of Champions When you really feel that your cycle, although with Arne Slot on the bench, has come to a deferred end.
Liverpool 0-2 PSG Champions League Summary
The truth is that it was his own Klopp who started the reconstruction of this project before ending his time as ‘network’ coach. Konaté, Mac Allister, Szoboszlai, Luis Díaz… None of them were present at the conquest of the Champions in 2019 and from the Premier just a year later. The Matip, Henderson, Mané or Firmino They had already been progressively closing their stage as ‘reds’.
“Many things will remain the same. The club is in good hands and the future is bright. The foundation of the team is very good. If you had asked my younger version 10 years ago if I wanted to take charge of this team, I would have walked through a brick wall to do so,” he acknowledged. Klopp back then. “No one has to worry about the future of the club,” he added.
The club is in good hands and the future is bright
Was Arne Slot the person in charge of collecting his witness. It was dizzying, not only for being the man chosen to replace an institution in Anfield…but because he had to do it with his tools, since Chiesa It was the only signing. The only thing that was invented was Gravenberch as a pivot and, with that adjustment, he won the Premier in his first year. Something that Klopp He could only achieve it once in nine seasons.
From that base that the German lists, they came Trent Alexander-Arnold and Luis Díaz… in addition to Jarrel Quansah to balance accounts. Slot also wanted to establish his seal and, after becoming champion, Liverpool invested more than 500 million after signing Isak (145), Wirtz (125), Ekitiké (95), Kerkez (47), Frimpong (40) and Leoni (31). A completely new squad that, however, has not been able to give shape.
“We brought in young and talented players to create a new cycle. That’s why we needed many players to leave to finance the purchases,” a player explained at the beginning of the season. Arne Slot who did not stop claiming that the money “was very well spent”… although the players “needed time to adapt”.
Only in the return crash against the PSG we glimpsed the potential that a Liverpool that, since the final against Real Madrid in 2022, he has not gone without scoring in the Champions League, connecting more than 20 shots. But, when you haven’t studied all year, it is very difficult to pass the final exam by bingeing on the last day.
“This is one of the aspects in which we are aligned. Not now, but for a year and a half. It is normal that in football there are cycles. The issue is that, possibly, we postponed that change of cycle the season with the title of premier“he reflected Arne Slot about the obligatory reconstruction process that had to be addressed by a Liverpool sooner rather than later.
Now, they have no choice but to focus all their efforts on qualifying for the next edition to try to cushion a season in which, to date, the Liverpool They have had 17 defeats in all competitions. Records that were not seen in Anfield from 14-15 with Brendan Rodgerswhen they finished sixth in Premier, third in the group stage of the Championseliminated in sixteenths of Europa League already at the doors of the final in FA Cup and Carabao.
We will see if we can add new players after selling some this summer
“We will see if we can add new players after selling some this summer,” he announced. slot after elimination before the PSG. “This summer we have a big challenge ahead of us. But the club has shown that this model works. As I have said many times, the future looks very good, especially if we manage to sign players after the departure of good players.”
With the already announced departures of Robertson and Salahwho had already taken a back seat this year, there are only Alisson and Van Dijk regarding the spine that gained Premier and Champions in the ‘golden era’ of Jurgen Klopp. He Liverpool It needs to continue rebuilding. But, perhaps, Arne Slot I am no longer your architect.
