Arne Slot has done an excellent job since replacing Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool manager, with the Red currently sitting 13 points clear at the top of the Premier League
Jurgen Klopp predicted that Liverpool would continue to thrive without him after he stood down as manager last summer and the Reds are now on the verge of winning the Premier League under new boss Arne Slot.
Klopp transformed Liverpool into serial winners during his nine years at Anfield, winning the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and two League Cups, but he announced last January that he had “run out of energy” to continue and would be leaving at the end of the season.
His final six-months in charge were captured in the new Amazon Prime Video documentary ‘Doubters To Believers Liverpool FC: Klopp’s Era‘ and the series includes a scene in the closing moments where Klopp proclaims that the club will be “fine” without him.
“I’m relatively sure that I will not work as a manager any more,” Klopp said. “I left my office for the last time, I will be fine. But more importantly the club will as well. Because you saw the team now.
“That’s a bunch of really good people, and they will be fine, or even more. And now somebody will come in full of dreams, full of energy, full of excitement and full of new ideas, rightly so, and will lead the club into that future. It’s great.”
And Slot has done an excellent job stepping into the void left by Klopp’s departure, with Liverpool challenging for a historic treble this season. They currently sit 13 points clear at the top of the league, will meet Newcastle in the Carabao Cup final in March and topped the league phase of the Champions League.
Klopp has since started a new job as Red Bull’s head of global soccer, but he has stayed in contact with Slot. Speaking to ESPN Netherlands last year, Klopp revealed: “We spoke one or two times [at the start].
“I think we texted a few more times. But there is nothing I can tell him what he couldn’t know himself. Right now from my side, just to give positive feedback in the beginning because we are all human beings and he worked his socks off.
“I know that because the tour is super intense in a year when you have Euros and Copa, you don’t have the team together, but they come, you have one week until the first matchday and stuff like that.
“So I think he had similar situation, but exactly the same situation? Definitely not. When I saw the games, that’s why I watched it, not to think, oh, how does it look? The work he did was obvious, the ideas obvious. And that’s the best you can say about the coach.”
Doubters To Believers Liverpool FC: Klopp’s Era is available exclusively on Prime Video now
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