Arne Slot believes that Liverpool‘s title success will make the club an attractive proposition to prospective signings during the transfer window, and also serve to motivate the current players to achieve further success with the club.
Liverpool has easily been the best team in England this season and confirmed its status as Premier League champion last weekend, coming from behind to record an emphatic 5-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur.
Ahead of Sunday’s trip to Chelsea, ahead of which the home team’s players will give the Reds a guard of honor, Slot was asked whether the title success would help the club to tempt its top targets to join the club.
Slot said: “It’s also a perfect package to stay motivated ourselves, because to experience this once is really nice, but we would love to experience it one more time.
“So we know why we do things now, because to experience this has been probably special for you guys, it’s been special for all the fans, but it’s definitely been special for the players and for us as well. So we know the why now, if we start next season, what we do it for.
Slot added: “It definitely helps, I think, to attract new players as well, because mostly the players that we want to have, we are not the only clubs who think they are good players so these players have probably more options. And then it helps maybe for them to see that the way we do things over here is special, I think you can say that.”
Meanwhile, Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca confirmed that he and his players will give Arne Slot and Liverpool a guard of honor ahead of kick-off.
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“It’s tradition (to give a guard of honor),” Maresca said. “We have to do that and we are going to do that. They won the Premier League, so they deserve it.
“In terms of the gap (between Chelsea and Liverpool), it is there, you can see this clearly. My feeling is we are (moving) in the right direction and hopefully this gap can be smaller and smaller and smaller.
“I don’t think we need that (giving a guard of honor) to understand how good it is to win the Premier League. I think we know that it’s something very nice. But for sure, when you are there (giving Liverpool a guard of honor), probably in their mind, our players are thinking, ‘I would like one day to be there.’”
