Arne Slot has insisted he can get tough with his Liverpool players in the sanctuary of the dressing room in contrast to his calm and controlled demeanour on the touchline.
Liverpool witnessed another side to their new head coach during his Premier League bow at Ipswich last weekend when he criticised their first-half display at Portman Road. Slot said he was harder on the entire team than he had been with Jarell Quansah, the young defender who was substituted at half-time due to his inability to fully get to grips with Ipswich’s imposing centre-forward Liam Delap. “Maybe language was a problem. I said he did not lose every duel but one or two important duels,” Slot clarified on Friday. Nevertheless, the Dutchman showed in word and deed at Ipswich that he can be ruthless.
