{"id":413491,"date":"2025-09-10T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413491\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:51:12","slug":"federico-chiesa-ready-to-prove-himself-to-arne-slot-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413491\/","title":{"rendered":"Federico Chiesa ready to &#8216;prove himself&#8217; to Arne Slot &#8211; Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a data-ail=\"327028\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/federico-chiesa\/\" title=\"Federico Chiesa\" rel=\"noopener\">Federico Chiesa<\/a> is out to convince <a data-ail=\"327028\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/arne-slot\/\" title=\"Arne Slot\" rel=\"noopener\">Arne Slot<\/a> to give him more opportunities this season after a transfer did not eventuate for the Italian this summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A transfer was expected for the Italian after playing 466 minutes across his debut season, with Slot instead favouring his other forward options.<\/p>\n<p>He could still feasibly move on this summer with the Super Lig transfer window open until Friday, but Besiktas <a data-mil=\"327028\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/2025\/09\/liverpool-make-federico-chiesa-stance-clear-as-besiktas-approach-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made a loan approach<\/a> and were rebuffed.<\/p>\n<p>Chiesa has come off the bench in all three <a data-ail=\"327028\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/premier-league\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> games this season, but his omission from the <a data-ail=\"327028\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/champions-league\" rel=\"noopener\">Champions League<\/a> squad underlined his status in Liverpool\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n<p>Though, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/Calciomercato\/08-09-2025\/chiesa-sul-mercato-decisivo-in-premier-fuori-dalla-champions.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gazzetta dello Sport<\/a>, Chiesa is still hopeful of convincing Slot to give him more opportunities and is \u201ccounting on proving himself\u201d to the Dutchman. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-08-15-242-Liverpool_Bournemouth-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - Friday, August 15, 2025: Liverpool's Federico Chiesa during the FA Premier League match between Liverpool FC and AFC Bournemouth at Anfield. Liverpool won 4-2. (Photo by David Rawcliffe\/Propaganda)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden alignnone size-medium wp-image-325821\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 READ:<\/strong> <a data-mil=\"327028\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/2025\/09\/alexander-isak-reports-for-first-day-of-liverpool-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Isak reports for first day of Liverpool training<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chiesa is claimed to have rejected interest from Turkey as he \u201cbelieves it\u2019s more valuable to compete with top players\u201d than \u201crisk embarrassment\u201d of another move not living up \u201cto expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His task only grew harder with the arrival of <a data-ail=\"327028\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/alexander-isak\/\" title=\"Alexander Isak\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Isak<\/a>, with the investment in <a data-ail=\"327028\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/florian-wirtz\/\" title=\"Florian Wirtz\" rel=\"noopener\">Florian Wirtz<\/a> and <a data-ail=\"327028\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/hugo-ekitike\/\" title=\"Hugo Ekitike\" rel=\"noopener\">Hugo Ekitike<\/a> underlining the direction Slot wants to take his side.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old will be more than aware that the World Cup looms next year, and he also \u201cunderstands the dangers of getting distracted by mid-season decisions when everything is still up for grabs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Chiesa\u2019s opportunities will remain limited this season, as it stands, but he will be hopeful that Slot embraces the lesson of rotation and squad depth with a game every midweek and weekend. <\/p>\n<p>The Italian is a popular member of the dressing room and a fan favourite, and showed the influence he can have with the winner against <a data-ail=\"327028\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/bournemouth\" rel=\"noopener\">Bournemouth<\/a>, but it\u2019s Slot\u2019s trust that will be the key to the opportunities he seeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federico Chiesa is out to convince Arne Slot to give him more opportunities this season after a transfer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,763,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-413491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-liverpool-fc","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115180803935490049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}