Arne Slot Admits Pep Guardiola Theory is “True” as Liverpool Boss Sends Clear Man City Message

Arne Slot discusses facing Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City and reflects on the significance of Jurgen Klopp’s message at Anfield.

Arne Slot has expressed his excitement about the upcoming challenge of facing Pep Guardiola for the first time as Liverpool manager when Manchester City travel to Anfield this December. .

The highly anticipated match is set for December 1, just days after Liverpool host the reigning Champions League winners, Real Madrid.

Guardiola’s visit will usher in a new era of competition for Liverpool, following many iconic battles between Manchester City and Jurgen Klopp during his nearly nine-year tenure at Anfield. This clash could signal the start of another thrilling rivalry in English football.

Slot revealed that he has previously used footage of Guardiola’s Manchester City teams to coach his own players. He is eager to test his tactical abilities against the renowned Catalan manager when the two top Premier League sides face off in just over a month.

“It is true I showed my players in recent years clips of Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City teams,” Slot told Men In Blazers.

“But I also showed them, many times, clips of Jurgen Klopp’s team at Liverpool and it was mostly to do with how intense both teams pressed, the work-rate these top professionals have and then compared with how we did it at that moment.

“In football I think we are all a bit similar, you try to steal ideas from different managers and at this moment in time, so many good managers are out there.

“I even faced many of them in the Premier League and Champions League as well. So Pep is of course not only because he is a great manager, he is a is difficult test to face but also he is leading a team with a lot of quality.

“The good thing for us is that we also have a lot of quality, so I am looking forward to that game. But there are also a lot of games to be played in the meantime and this will come after the Real Madrid game, which is also a massive one.”

When asked about Klopp singing his name after the iconic German manager’s last match with the Reds in May, in front of 60,000 fans at Anfield—a gesture that nearly confirmed Slot as his successor—Slot responded:

“I didn’t see it live, because we were playing our last game at Feyenoord that day and I think I was at a party at that moment

“But I got the text messages, people came to me showing me what he did. Jurgen is so, so popular with the fans and the staff around the AXA Training Centre because of how successful he was, but definitely also because of the person he was.

“So to do this, which has never been done before, it might happen again in the future but I don’t expect it to happen a lot and it says a lot about him that he did this.

“I should ask him if he come up with this at that moment or he thought about it weeks before because to come up with ‘Jurgen Klopp la la la’ and then to change it to Arne Slot is quite creative. So I will ask him if he came up with it then or thought about it weeks before.”

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