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City couldn’t help themselves and Slot knows just how Liverpool should respond

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City couldn’t help themselves and Slot knows just how Liverpool should respond

Experience dictates that most things on social media should be greeted with a generous pinch of salt. But those same wisened ways also suggest there are rarely coincidences in football.

Which leads nicely into what Manchester City’s Twitter (nobody calls it X, Elon) account has been up to this week.




Seemingly apropos of nothing, on Thursday morning came a post which harked back to a particular week in the club’s recent history in September 2017 when a 5-0 Premier League win over 10-man Liverpool was followed by a 4-0 Champions League triumph at Feyenoord.

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It didn’t take long for people, and not just Reds supporters, to point out that less than 24 hours earlier, former Feyenoord boss Arne Slot had delivered his first interview since being named as successor to Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool.

City’s social media policy is such that they, like most other clubs, steer clear of baiting rivals, particularly Liverpool given the recent history of acrimony between the two sets of supporters. But there was something suspiciously naughty about the timing of their seemingly random throwback to yesteryear, in what could be construed as a not-so-subtle message to the incoming Slot.

Cue the expected responses of the Anfield side living rent-free in the minds of City, as they have done for much of the previous seven years. It could easily be construed as a backhanded compliment, although Slot hadn’t even started his managerial career when the games were played, let alone taken change at Feyenoord.

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