Wednesday , December 25 2024

Premier League club Liverpool appoints Arne Slot as its new manager

Liverpool, 21 May (Hindustan Reporter) Premier League club Liverpool has appointed Arne Slot as its new manager. Slott will replace Jurgen Klopp. The club confirmed the above on Monday.

Slote has signed a long-term contract with six-time European Cup winners and 19-time English champions Liverpool. His task is made even more difficult by following in the footsteps of Klopp, who ended Liverpool's 30-year wait for a Premier League title in 2020 and won a full set of major trophies in his time at Anfield.

The 45-year-old Slot arrives with a winning record after leading Feyenoord to the Dutch title last year and then winning the Dutch Cup this season.

His appointment has been expected for some time, with Slote first confirming he was in talks with Liverpool in April and then announcing last week that he would be Klopp's successor.

Klopp shocked the football world in January by announcing he would leave the club at the end of the season. In more than eight years at Liverpool he established himself as one of the finest managers of his generation.

They won the Champions League in 2019 and followed that up with the title, ending Manchester City's two-year reign as Premier League champions.

Klopp won the English League Cup and FA Cup in 2022 and guiding Liverpool to a second League Cup trophy in February.

Under his watch, Liverpool also won the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup and finished as runners-up in two more Champions League campaigns.