Arne Slot is our most entertaining coach for 35 years – he thinks like Pep

Arne Slot has is the Netherland’s most entertaining coach in 35 years and Liverpool fans are in for a treat.

Slot is now the Reds’ new head coach, replacing the long-serving Jurgen Klopp, who stepped down from his role at the end of last season.

The 45-year-old arrives at Anfield with an exciting reputation having won the league and Dutch Cup with Feyenoord and is a coach who thinks like Pep Guardiola, according to Dutch journalist Marcel van der Kraan, who has followed his career closely.

As well as his perfect communication skills, he told talkSPORT: “He’s also got very fresh ideas and maybe even excels [Erik] Ten Hag in his ideas of attacking football.

“He is closer in his thinking to Pep. I’m not saying he’s on the same level, I don’t want Liverpool fans to think, ‘Oh Marcel’s telling us we’re getting Pep 2.0.’

“But I’ve never seen a game of him where he played one minute defensive football, or where he wanted his team to defend something, it’s actually been mind blowing what he’s done in Holland.

“I’m not saying that he will be in England but in Holland, he’s the most entertaining coach I’ve seen over the last 35 years. I actually think that, apart from Pep of course in the same city, Arne Slot could be Erik ten Hag’s biggest rival when it comes to competing for places in the Champions League next season.”

Slot is set to rival his compatriot Ten Hag for a Premier League top four finish, with the latter already winning two trophies in as many seasons at United.

However, when talkSPORT host Jim White asked if Slot will be more successful at Liverpool than Ten Hag next season, Van der Kraan said: “Yes.

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“His football… like [co-host Simon Jordan], I’m a fan of the 70’s, I loved Holland in the 70’s, 1974, 1988, Ruud Gullit, Arnold Muhren, you mentioned earlier in the break, the cross to [Marco] van Basten, we had great players.

“But they all wanted to play really Dutch, flowing football and this is what you want from coaches, that’s how you want them to play.

“And if Arne Slot will do what he’s done so far in his career in the Netherlands, how he turned Feyenoord around from like a hard-working port workers’ club into a flowing football machine…

“What I wish, without being biased on Arne or Erik, I wish that Liverpool fans will get that because it will show a bit of colour for the Dutch again, what our coaches can do.”

Slot’s first Premier League match in charge at Liverpool comes on August 17 away at newly-promoted Ipswich Town, live on talkSPORT.