No more Mr Nice Guy, perhaps. If Arne Slot can cut a friendly figure, the Dutchman feels he has an inner toughness. In his most testing time, the Liverpool manager may have demonstrated that, even if the explanation was delivered in his usual mild-mannered fashion.
“Usually I’m calm, I’m polite but it doesn’t mean I’m weak so if a player has these comments about so many things, then it’s about me and the club to react,” he said. “We reacted in way you can see: he’s not here.”
