When requested how he had set about constructing on the work carried out by Klopp after Liverpool ended the 2023-24 Premier League season 9 factors behind Manchester Metropolis in third, Slot stated: “After all it helps, in case you outperform at a membership like Feyenoord.
“[I got] a variety of confidence, that they did not solely carry me in to win the league – it was additionally my enjoying model and Jurgen left this membership, this workforce, in a terrific place.”
Klopp received eight trophies in his time on Merseyside, together with the Premier League title in 2020 and a Champions League win the earlier 12 months.
“The tradition of this workforce and the best way individuals work right here collectively has been a pleasure to step into,” Slot stated.
“I did not need to first get the self-discipline going – these guys have been so disciplined and dealing so exhausting, and I noticed already that there was a variety of high quality over right here.
“The way in which they put together themselves, the best way they’re prepared for each recreation, each three days, provides you the arrogance that we’re capable of win towards any workforce.
“What we would have liked to do was do a number of issues higher.”
Slot stated when he arrived at Anfield his purpose had been to qualify for the Champions League.
“And such as you see now, that is not a straightforward job on this nation, as a result of so many excellent groups are competing for that,” he stated.
“However the second I began working with the gamers… and that was solely two weeks earlier than the beginning of the season, I felt like, ‘oh, that is positively high quality’.”
Profitable the title, he stated, was “an achievement that we hoped for”.
“We labored actually exhausting, however to say we anticipated it, I anticipated it, could be a bit an excessive amount of,” he added.
Nonetheless, the season will finish with Monday’s bus parade to mark Liverpool’s record-equalling twentieth title.
“I believe these moments will probably be probably the most particular moments in your life, professional-wise, perhaps probably the most particular second,” Slot stated.
Celebrating Feyenoord’s title success with 100,000 individuals had been “very particular”, he stated, however “to do it with a a number of of that may in all probability be a once-in-a-lifetime expertise”.
“Though, we’re planning to win a number of issues extra at this membership, so let’s hope it is not going to be the final time,” he added.
