Gary Lineker believes that incoming Liverpool manager Arne Slot has to follow Jurgen Klopp’s lead when it comes to one Liverpool player.
Former Feyenoord manager Arne Slot was confirmed to be the new Liverpool manager earlier this week with HITC Football reporting that the Dutch manager put pen to paper on a three-year contract at Anfield.
Slot will begin work at Anfield on the 1st of June and you’d expect the Dutchman will hold talks with the decision makers at the club about who to bring in and who to build his team around.
One player who will be hoping to make a big impression under Slot is Trent Alexander-Arnold. HITC reported a couple of days ago that Liverpool’s priority was to tie down the Englishman to a new long-term contract at Anfield.
Lineker’s advice for Slot
Former Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp deployed Alexander-Arnold in midfield at times and, speaking on The Rest Is Football Podcast, Gary Lineker believes that Slot should follow the German’s lead in where to play the Englishman.
“He’s still playing right-back for Liverpool. Occasionally he has played in midfield, but it’s kind of the inverted full-back role, he goes and does what he wants,” Lineker said.
“I hope the new manager when he comes in plays Trent in midfield at Liverpool. I think that’s his position, I really do, I always have. It would be lovely to see him play there regularly.”
Alexander-Arnold started two of his 37 games in midfield this season, but was most commonly seen coming inside when starting at right-back.
Alexander-Arnold’s midfield role
In the last couple of England squads, Gareth Southgate has named Alexander-Arnold in his squad but, crucially, as one of his midfielders.
With the emergence of 20-year-old right-back Conor Bradley for Liverpool, moving Alexander-Arnold in midfield seems like a logical move but it was Klopp’s assistant Pep Lijnders who made that decision.
“My idea constantly was the best No. 6 I had in the U16s was Trent Alexander-Arnold,” Lijnders told The Redmen TV. “It’s not to only have extra players inside, to have four here (in the midfield), to have the same as what Bobby Firmino did.
“‘We need the extra player, we need Trent there. I tell you it will work, it will work’.”
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