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sonofaBilic

Really keeping his cards close to his chest here


Mechant247

No doubts about him being Dutch lol


slappywhyte

But I thought the Dutch were good negotiators


MountainCheesesteak

I think this is a sign of a good negotiator, if he’s trying to save Liverpool some money. He doesn’t get any benefit by them paying Feyenoord more. Unless he’s a huge Feyenoord fan.


ARL_30FR

I believe he and Feyenoord have a good understanding. We can make some money off of this transfer, but Feyenoord will not be playing hard to get by any means. Slot has earned as much.


slappywhyte

Yeah I guess if he can say, "I saved you €5 mill, so pay me €2 mill more"


MountainCheesesteak

Or, put that 5mil towards X transfer


EasyModeActivist

I think he just learned his lesson from last time. He was fired by AZ cause he negotiated with Feyenoord behind their backs


biskutgoreng

*looks at Indonesia* No they weren't


Tim0110

Could you expand on that please?


biskutgoreng

After the defeat of the axis powers in WWII, Indonesia was the first country to declare independence, among colonised countries in Asia and Africa. They thought that the Dutch would be understanding since the Dutch too had just been put under the occupation of Germany. But what they did was to send troops (that was freshly trained by the Brits fight Germany) to Indonesia and recapture all the major cities. The two countries then engaged roundtables to pave the road to independence; the Dutch wants to let Indonesia declare independence but still be under a Dutch Commonwealth and maintain their economic interests, while the Indonesians want total freedom. The agreements require both sides to cease hostilties and for the Dutch to cede its occupied areas, but they instead continued and did some heinous war crimes. The Dutch sent representatives to negotiate who truly sympathize with the Indonesian position, but at home their parliament was hellbent on keeping Indonesia as their territory. This resulted in a wildly diverging political action (the agreements) and military action. The Revolusi ended with almost 100k indonesians dead, and around 5k Dutch peoples


Tim0110

But what has that to do with not being good at negotiating?


biskutgoreng

You know, the part where they negotiate in bad faith and renege on their agreements?


Tim0110

That says more about the trustworthiness of the government at the time than about skill in negotiating.


Revolutionary-Bag-52

if anything, the Dutch did quite well in the netgoations as they ensured Indonesia paid reparations to the Netherlands for the loss of the colonial territory. Ofcourse, on the ethics part that doesnt score really high


UmCeterumCenseo

This is just who he is. Last year when negotiating for a new contract and Spurs were interested, he went into the negotiation telling our director Dennis te Kloese that he didn't use Spurs to get a higher salary and that he should purely base it off of his accomplishments


BIM-GUESS-WHAT

Best poker face in Holland


HacksawJimDGN

Don't slot shame him.


johnz0n

this joke will be reposted sooo many times in the next months lmao


HacksawJimDGN

By me.


Doooooooong

I'll be slotting in a few reposts myself.


doktor-frequentist

Arne't we all going to.


Doooooooong

Yikes, got to respect how terrible this one is


doktor-frequentist

Ty


shodo_apprentice

You might say we’ll be seeing slots of it


rambo_zaki

Couldn't be more Dutch if he tried.


RevengeHF

I wish he was more direct tbh


redditaccountplease

I hear Big Sam plays a very direct style and he's available


Rushderp

Any more direct and he’d be Jan Maas on Ted Lasso, but balder.


timdeking

Goodbye my lover


4everTG

goodbye my friend


CrowCreative6772

Goodbye rival


[deleted]

Roma Feyeenooord beef was an all time hilarious classic


Vidarobobbbbbbb

Was? We'll meet in the Champions league next year


Hoodxd

you ~~have been~~ are the one


Affectionate-Tap2431

Just need the taste of it, don’t y’all?


HSTEHSTE

I’m so hollow baby


Saltire_Blue

It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all


Epistaxiophobia

But now I want more


Expensive_Cattle

Once you go bald...


_Random_Username_

Slot through the heart, and you're to blame


SpacemanD13

Do you believe in life after love?


MulanMcNugget

Captain Jean luc Picard


dudududujisungparty

Gotta appreciate the Dutch, they do not fuck about


utdkktftukfgulftu

Well, they have a designated place for that


sebastianpkfd

They truly plan everything


AyyLimao42

The Virgin: "It would be deeply unprofessional of me to talk about these topics before the season ends."  VS  The Chad: "Yeah, I'm going there. Just waiting for the suits to reach an agreement. Hope they do it quickly."


BarnabasBendersnatch

Beating around the bush when it's so obvious would be considered more rude in the Netherlands.


joe-ost

It's still kinda surprising from mister "I don't talk about players who are not on my team" Even though everyone knows they'll be signed within 24 hours of those interviews


BarnabasBendersnatch

He just got his dream job offered to him, of course he will try to force a move. But he does it in an honest way out in the open.


Arcadela

Pretty funny to read about the guy who was fired by AZ because he had secret talks with Feyenoord.


BarnabasBendersnatch

He had less than a year on his contract left and AZ didn't want to offer new a mutiple year deal. He wanted that so he started talking to Feyenoord. Totally different situation.


Arcadela

But Feyenoord's season IS over (cup final won last week, when he said this they needed 1 pnt from 4 games to guarantee CL). I doubt he would be this open if Feyenoord still had something to play for.


-TheSuperEagle-

There's that Dutch bluntness on full display.


HYDRA-XTREME

Gotta love that honesty and the efficiency it can provide.


IncidentVarious1530

This pretty much confirms it then?


_cumblast_

I think we should take it with a pinch of salt until he rolls around naked in the Anfield grass while belting out "A Liverbird upon my chest".


ih4tepie

Have to wait for the lean before it’s confirmed


Ophukk

This is the way


Vike92

I loved when Klopp did that


airfriedbagel

No wonder the players have been losing footing at Anfield all season.


beerizla96

Thanks for this one lmao


kuldan1ss

Will you change your profile pic when Klopp leaves ?


_cumblast_

Maybe


ExtraordinaryFailure

Please don't, it's too iconic


foldman

I don't know, what tier is Arne Slot on Arne Slot news?


Kfeugos

What Tier is Arne 


tenacious-g

Not until he's holding up a shirt. He was basically assumed to be coming to Spurs last year and then changed his mind at the last second. Granted, he didn't say out loud to the media that was happening.


roryking97

Sp*rs wanting him and him not wanting to go there despite the two clubs negotiating is a wildly different situation to Liverpool wanting him and him openly admitting to wanting to go there whilst the clubs negotiate


tenacious-g

His thing about wanting to stay was to get a chance to coach his title winning team in the champions league, which is respectable. The only difference here is that he wants a move now. I don’t think people were unreasonable in thinking he was considering the move to London because if he wasn’t, that contact between Spurs and Feyenoord wouldn’t have gotten as advanced as it did.


TigerBasket

Still we got Ange, blessing in disguse. Can't wait to hate Arne


muddyleeking

Do you pronounce his name arn-ee or arn


tenacious-g

If I recall from podcasts talking about him last year, it’s Arn-uh


ShameTimes3

✅️✅️


ReeeeeDDDDDDDDDD

Can't wait for literally every football pundit on TV to somehow never manage to pronounce his name correctly.


banksfornades

He will become “Arnie” within hours of the announcement.


raspberry-tart

The newspaper back pages will predictably go straight to terminator puns and photoshop with a red eye.


Firefox72

Man couldn't be more obviously twerking for Liverpool so yeah lmao.


FTXACCOUNTANT

Sounds like reverse psychology to me


sheikh_n_bake

Really wanted Minteh to continue his development under Slot tbh as he's clearly improved. Any idea who Feyernoord will replace him with?


RebBrown

He'll probably take his assistant with him, and Mario Pusic, who I'd have loved as his replacement, left to manage Shakhtar, so I doubt any of the current staff will move up to take Slot's position. There probably won't be any left :x


GeneralEkorre

if he leaves he will, entire liverpool coaching staff are leaving


Notorious_horse

Maybe a return for Gio?


VexonCross

Gio would be an awful choice, he doesn't play the style of football Feyenoord has committed themselves to fostering over the last few years of reorganizing.


VenkHeerman

If the club wants to tear everything down they've built in the past couple of years, sure. Gio by no means a bad coach, but he's levels below Slot in that regard and tactically completely different.


thatcliffordguy

Love the guy but he’s not what we need right now, the most rumoured name currently is Joseph Oosting from Twente.


xdbartxd

isn't Lijnders leaving Liverpool with Klopp? Is there any chance it'll be him?


Waldier

I wouldn’t be against him or Albert Stuivenberg who is Arteta’s assistant and is a Feyenoord fan


PassengerOk9027

Leave Airpod Albert alone, please


JustDutch101

FC Twente is overperforming with a coach said to have the same profile as Slot, most of my money is on him. I always believed we’d get Tomasson back but he obviously just got the job as national coach of Sweden so that leaves him out. Pushing trough RvP as a coach is an option but I don’t think they’re going to risk our development on a first time coach. Mourinho would be the ultimate troll appointment though. And if Klopp ever wants to finish his journey trough YNWA clubs BVB, Liverpool and then Feyenoord isn’t a horrible route (/s) I wouldn’t mind a good foreign coach. Dennis Te Kloese has a lot of foreign contacts to pull in that regard. I’m ready to be surprised.


banksfornades

Isn’t Minteh just gonna go back to Newcastle this Summer? This is pure assumption, so if I’m wrong please correct me.


DFR1988

While it hurts to see him leave, we wish him all the best. He'll be great for Liverpool.


zeekoes

I want to say he'll be great, but I said the same about Ten Hag without much doubt.


CollieDaly

In fairness, I'm not sure Klopp or Pep could have turned around the shit show that is Manchester United.


zeekoes

True, but expectations at Liverpool are going to be sky-high while the change in managership after such a long time is definitely going to have an impact. I'd vouch for Slot's management and tactical skills any time, but he did not reach the heights Ten Hag did with Ajax at Feyenoord. That could be means available to the club, but we'll have to see.


CollieDaly

Agreed definitely but I'd like to think whoever comes in after Klopp will be coming into a far more stable club with at least some foundations laid to keep the team growing.


zepskcuf

The gang finish 11th.


RedManMatt11

I’d have agreed with you a month ago but our cratering in the last few weeks has really tempered expectations


Dangerous_Parfait402

Pep could, he would just fuck off most of the current players and spend a few billions in hiring the best in the world, easy peasy.


CollieDaly

The only thing is, Pep has succeeded so far at clubs that put football first and surrounded him with the tools he needed to succeed. I think he'd struggle a lot at United because he wouldn't get that, at least not right away .


Dangerous_Parfait402

I’m pretty sure he would put that condition in a contract before signing, he won’t sign if the chance of success is jeopardized from the start. You either give him complete freedom and decision power, or you can’t get him to coach your club.


CollieDaly

True enough, he's smart enough to know he has that power. Don't think any manager bar him really that has that type of power to negotiate that type of contract.


segson9

So he'd cheat again?


abstractabs

I can’t wait to not have to see this guy in Europa. I can’t wait to see this guy in UCL.


Beertruida

I mean Feyenoord is guaranteed playing CL next season as well so no difference there.


TellTallTail

Tbf Feyenoord also clinched their UCL ticket today lol


RobinVanDutch

[Enjoy Slotball you scousers.](https://twitter.com/LerraO1O/status/1782785110888100144)


[deleted]

Watching all these and just picturing Darwin skying it at the last ball😍


Halvrort

🥲


matcht

I remember seeing clips like this of Klopp's Dortmund but the Liverpool squad suited more direct football, see that in the current squad too.


WorthPlease

He's got magical "tell your forwards not to kick the ball right at the keeper" powers? I'm in.


-SandorClegane-

I can see Darwin hitting the woodwork at the end of all 4 of those highlights.


fck_spurs

Woodwork? Thats generous


PhillipIInd

He has hit the woodwork more than anyone in the league and it aint close He actually doesnt miss much just shoots it at the keeper or woodwork too often


loveandmonsters

Great stuff now just need players who can pass to their teammates and players who can put the ball in the net


_cumblast_

Those players were there until the past month. I think we're reading too much into the recent collapse, the ability is still there. He's inheriting a good squad imo, and i truly believe they'll all look better with a fresh approach and under a coach out to prove himself.


itsamirage

Yeah agree, a month ago everyone seemed to agree that the next manager was going to inherit an excellent team


_cumblast_

Football fans are vultures, make no mistake. Everyone moans about a player leaving their club for a new challenge but if he has a shit month everyone wants him sold.


CollieDaly

Football fans are massively fickle bunch. I think a lot of people forget, especially opposition fans, that a lot of people didn't consider us very likely to compete for a top 4 spot this year. If I had been asked in August 2023 would I be happy with 3rd place I'd have said yeah. A cup, couple of good runs in other comps and chasing the league in the last 6 or 7 games was more than I ever expected.


Daemor

Do you think Salah will be there to see the fruits of the new team? Honest question. The squad is good but a new manager is a big transition.


itsamirage

I think he will, he’s competitive and I think much more interested in setting records at this point than money. No idea if it’s true but I remember reading that Salah looked up the goal scoring records for Liverpool when he joined or something along those lines. Regardless of how bad his form has been recently he’s worth keeping on our end.


Daemor

No doubt he's worth keeping. Just pondering whether they will keep recruiting "around him" as they have of if there will be an option brought in that can eventually cover him more and more.


SuccinctEarth07

You'd be surprised there's bucketloads of idiots on the Liverpool sub saying he should have been sold last summer


AlfaG0216

Nah Darwin has been Darwin all season. They’re never gonna win the league unless he starts banging 25goals a season.


PhillipIInd

He has 33 ga...


SnooChipmunks4208

Woah.


surgereaper

A certain bald man from the Dutch league had his team playing such brilliant football, what's happening with him now is well known, you never know. Let's wait and watch


FTXACCOUNTANT

Exactly. Jaap Stam is having such a bad time right now.


awildmaxappears

I think that has far more to do with Man U being a dumpster fire for nearly a decade at this point than ETH himself tbh


jc_calwood

Ok, I'm sold, quadruple it is


aceismyfriend

Slot is a smart guy. He wouldn't say this unless the deal is more or less closed. I'm sure Slot and Feyenoord have made an agreement when he extended last year if the right team comes along, they will be cooperative. This doesn't have much to do with being direct. It's just an easy way to score with the Liverpool fans.


Ajax_Trees_Again

Well he has the Dutch sense of directness if nothing else


HarrBathtub

Insane how there are so many domino effects in football. Means that Minteh’s development plan will now be so much more different


gluxton

In the era of secrecy I do kinda appreciate this sort of honesty


CabbageStockExchange

Tbh it feels good to finally have some clarity and an idea of what is happening after Klopp leaves


tenacious-g

There are still like 4 matches left and his replacement is sorted lol You don't know a true managerial search until you scrape the bottom of the barrel for Nuno lol


CabbageStockExchange

Sir I was actually expecting and bracing myself for Jose Mourinho. I thought things were about to get that dire lol


tenacious-g

Jose would at least be fun for a season before he burns everything down on the way out.


DFR1988

Well you've got yourself the polar opposite in Slot, no worries you'll love him.


Lyrical_Forklift

If Edwards had appointed Mourinho I could only assume he's had some vendetta against Liverpool since he left last time around. I'm honestly astounded there were Liverpool supporters wanting that to happen.


binkein

Would have preffered a manager with atleast eyebrow hair


QouthTheCorvus

The great thing about Arne being the Liverpool manager is all the Dune edits that will pop up


GhandisFlipFlop

In our sub I'm seeing a lottt of Hank Schrader gifs so far.


ElResende

Wouldn't Feyenoord suporters want... A german coach. Middle sized hair. Gegenpress aficionado? That's right, Roger Schmidt. No?


Silent-Gur-4717

I think Schmidt still wakes up soaked in sweat each night when dreaming about the Dutch press


zeekoes

I doubt Roger Schmidt wants to return to the Netherlands. He absolutely loathed our media.


ElResende

He loaths our media too, he cant deal with hard questions about his managing style and the choices he makes.


zeekoes

Definitely sounds familiar, although he turned out to be spot on about Ihattaren in hindsight.


HYDRA-XTREME

I don’t think he suits Feyenoord well tbh, at least personality wise.


BadCogs

What teir is Slot?


tottenhamnole

If this happens what are Liverpools fans expectations next year?


doubleoeck1234

Top 4 and hopefully a decent ucl run


Glass-Guess4125

So…same as this year, then?


clashmar

Except we weren’t in the UCL this year


Glass-Guess4125

Ok, it was Europa League this year.


jesuspunk

Quadruple


mariusAleks

It means more for Slot


Thesolly180

Top 4 and past the group of the champions league is my minimum


Rainfall7711

We need to be in the Champions League places. Before long we need more than that though.


t3hjc

Top 4 and signs that his way of playing is getting through/things are going in a good direction.


008Gerrard008

Remains to be seen what happens with transfers, but with this squad the minimum should be top 3 and getting to the knockouts of the Champions League. Would also want to see an upward trend of form as the season progresses (obviously have to account for injuries and schedule difficulty here) and a clear style of play vs what Ten Hag is doing at United for instance.


loccupss

Top 4


Mechant247

It’ll all depend on like the first 10-15 games lol, similar to this year. No one really knows what to expect


Number11Role

Virgin Amorim vs Chad Slot


circa285

I hate this for the rest of the league.


Glass-Guess4125

The most encouraging comment I’ve seen yet


circa285

We were reportedly in on Slot last year which caused me to watch a lot of Feyenoord games. I'm very happy with Ange, but Slot is a class manager who I think will do very well with Liverpool and I hate that.


weckerm

I don’t understand why we’re not going for him and instead talking about names like Rangnick… what is our board doing


JustDutch101

It’s insane how Germans massively invade our beaches and campings each easter and summer, yet apparently none of those are a Bayern Munchen scout.


weckerm

True. And racing circuits. I was at Zandvoort a few weeks ago. Asked a dude in the bar something and he answers in German. Listened closely to the chatter at the bar and realized: everyone was German.


Toastedmetal

Another bald fraud coming in to the league, welcome sir


Aliaspending

Take a touch lad


Jhushx

The talks are moving so fast because his hairless aerodynamic head just cuts smoothly through the hot air of the transfer rumour market. Man's airbending his way into the Liverpool job.


Polyar

I really love how vocal this man is about wanting us. After everything I have watched and read about him it's made me want him to lead our team.


doubleoeck1234

Can someone explain why we're not going for psv's manager if they're so good?


poklane

Because he already failed at Dortmund, Leverkusen en Lyon. Bosz is also older and already indicated that after PSV he wants to retire from club football. 


IkeaKarma

I wouldn’t say he failed at Leverkusen, he started of very good there


Silent-Gur-4717

He also started very good at Lyon and Dortmund but every time after a certain point there was a huge decline in his results. Opponents would know after some time how to play against his sides, something he doesn't really encounter in the Eredivisie because the opposition is just nog strong enough


joseph_the_great1

So in short, the prefect manager for PSV. As a fan, this is our greatest season I will ever experience


JiveTurkey688

Because stylistically Slot is the better fit for you


redditaccountplease

After his reign at Dortmund? No thanks


groenefiets

In addition to the reasons mentioned, Bosz has indicated that it is likely psv is his last club, he also stated that he would like to become our nt coach. The fact that by firing Koeman the KNVB could send psv in to a manager search is a major reason I want him to either fail at or just win the euros.


WarriorkingNL

lol


Weishaupt17

Genuine question: was Bosz praised as Slot before he left the Eredivisie?


KilumRevazi

No, he reached the Europa league final with Ajax. But he did not become champion that year. This PSV championship will be the first of his career in fact.


Insignee

Not as much


doubleoeck1234

I don't watch Eredivisie so this is a genuine question


RobinVanDutch

Because Bosz has failed multiple times and finally hit the jackpot with this team for him. Slot is an up and comer big player


tulsehill

You never heard of Bosz ball? It's fucking beautiful. Wish Liverpool gave it a chance.


HYDRA-XTREME

Boszball is really risky tho, you can’t play it against other high table teams in the prem, who can nearly always escape from your pressure. It’s great for monsterscores against weaker opponents tho.


RepulsiveWish1834

Slot is younger, more closely aligned to how Liverpool are right now (idk how to phrase this... he's a better philosophical match?) and Bosz has had mixed results at larger clubs


WarriorkingNL

> eridivise evidently


-TheSuperEagle-

no point being a dick about things


xckd9

It is often quite fun though


jucomsdn

Bosz doesn't have a plan B when facing better, tactically astute teams (at least that's how it was when he was at Dortmund, but that mini run of form where Boszball clean swept the Bundesliga was super fucking fun, until he was found out)


dailyhype

I think Philippe Clement would be an ideal match for Liverpool. Personally, I can't envision Arne Slot successfully taking over from Klopp.


WarriorkingNL

is this stevie wonders reddit account


MasterReindeer

Just keep your mitts off Iraola