{"id":49422,"date":"2025-04-25T13:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/49422\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:01:17","slug":"mark-lawrenson-says-it-has-become-clear-what-liverpool-players-really-think-of-arne-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/49422\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Lawrenson says it has become clear what Liverpool players really think of Arne Slot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Liverpool are all set for a big weekend as they stand on the brink of another Premier League title.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Reds need just a point against Tottenham on Sunday to ensure nobody can catch them at the top of the tree.<\/p>\n

Nothing should be taken for granted, but with Anfield<\/a> in party mode, it would be a surprise if Liverpool<\/a> did not put Spurs to the sword.<\/p>\n

Gary Neville has predicted Liverpool go \u2018barbaric\u2019 on Tottenham<\/a> and while we\u2019d be more cautious in a prediction, it does feel like it will be the Reds\u2019 day.<\/p>\n

For Arne Slot<\/a>, it will represent the first moment where he can truly soak in what he has achieved in a remarkable debut season with Liverpool.<\/p>\n

And as Slot prepares to become just the second Liverpool manager<\/a> to win the Premier League, former Reds defender Mark Lawrenson<\/a> has made an interesting observation about his relationship with the Liverpool squad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Andrew Powell\/Liverpool FC via Getty ImagesLiverpool squad love Arne Slot<\/p>\n

Part of the reason Slot\u2019s rise at Liverpool has been so impressive is because of who he was replacing at Anfield. Truly, there can never be a Jurgen Klopp.<\/p>\n

But the Dutchman has been his own man from the moment he first buttoned up the Liverpool training kit. Things have been done his way, always with a respectful nod to the past.<\/p>\n

And according to Lawrenson, this approach seems to have worked a dream with the players he inherited.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing with the manager is he\u2019s gone in there and he\u2019s looked at what he\u2019s got and thought \u2018do you know what? We\u2019ve got a real chance here, I don\u2019t have to make too many changes\u2019,\u201d Lawrenson tells The Mirror<\/a>. <\/p>\n

READ MORE: Three Liverpool players every fan would love to see score the Premier League title-winning goal against Tottenham<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHe hasn\u2019t signed anyone apart from [Federico] Chiesa and he\u2019s just done little things. It\u2019s Klopp\u2019s team, isn\u2019t it? <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got a nice way about him,\u201d Lawrenson adds. \u201cThe players obviously like him, you can just tell. He\u2019s basically everyone\u2019s pal, generally he\u2019s an intelligent fella who\u2019s looked at it and thought I can work with these players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawrenson names six key players<\/p>\n

As well as talking up Slot\u2019s popularity with his players, Lawrenson also picked out six stars who have been critical to Liverpool\u2019s success this season: Alisson Becker, Virgil van Dijk, Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai and Mohamed Salah.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they\u2019re the best three trio in the league,\u201d he says of the midfield three. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019re any better and they hardly get injured.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you remember, when we started the season, everyone was going \u2018Gravenberch, he didn\u2019t do very well last season\u2019 and \u2018where does he play?\u2019. The three of them have worked it out between themselves and that engine room for me has just been the best.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, you chuck Mo\u2019s goals into that, Virgil\u2019s defending, Alisson and that\u2019s why they\u2019re going to win the league.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listing off the players, it\u2019s hard to argue that Slot did not walk into an excellent situation. But he still had to win those stars over and get them firing on the pitch. He\u2019s done that and then some. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are all set for a big weekend as they stand on the brink of another Premier League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1121,748,393,4884,179,26302,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-49422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-arne-slot","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-mark-lawrenson","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114398736111235962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49422","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=49422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}