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Liverpool boss Arne Slot on Chiesa signing, transfers and previewing Manchester United derby clash  30/08/2024  AXA training centre, Liverpool, UK

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00:00Jürgen, how satisfied are you with the business you've been able to do this week?

00:17Chiesa and Mamadashvili, and what chance is there of maybe another signing on deadline day?

00:22Again, a lot of questions in one question.

00:26Of course we are happy with the ones we signed,

00:29because I've said many times that it's difficult for us to make the team even stronger,

00:34because we already have a very strong team,

00:36and if we then find them, of course we are very happy with that.

00:39Chiesa is someone who can help us for the short term,

00:43and Mamadashvili, I think I pronounced it really well,

00:50is one of the examples where this club did very well in the past,

00:55and we look also at the long-term future of the club, and that's why we signed him.

01:01Any chance of...?

01:03Oh, yeah, that was your last question.

01:06I'm not expecting anything, but again, it's no different than all the days before,

01:12if we see an opportunity we could act, but I'm not expecting anything.

01:16I just wanted to ask you about Kelleher with Mamadashvili coming in next summer,

01:19and his long-term future, how do you see it?

01:21Because he's got two years left on his contract,

01:23obviously it's going to be a different competition for places with Mamadashvili coming in,

01:27so at his age I'd imagine he's got a decision to make on his future, hasn't he?

01:31Maybe, but we have to make decisions as well, it's not only the player.

01:36I think if you work at a club like Liverpool you need competition and we need a lot of good players,

01:41and like I said, Mamadashvili is someone for the long future of the club,

01:46and I'm really, really happy with the goalkeepers we have at the moment.

01:50And Kouive is one of them, like Fita and Ali,

01:55so we're in a good place when it comes to goalkeepers for now and for the long term.

02:00Good start to the season, you've obviously already faced Manchester United in the summer as well,

02:04but how different an experience are you expecting going to Old Trafford in the Premier League?

02:09It's going to be different, of course, because when we played them in the States I think it was 50-50,

02:15when it was about the fans, the stadium was somewhere the same,

02:19I think it was 80,000 or something like this.

02:22But the atmosphere will be completely different, of course,

02:25because I'm not expecting half of the stadium to be cheering for us or in favour for us.

02:31I would be surprised though if it happens.

02:33So it's going to be different, but what makes it more different

02:37is that both teams have a lot of different players on the pitch,

02:41so you can't compare that game with the game on Sunday.

02:45What have you been told about this fixture,

02:49what's been said to you around the club this week ahead of going to Old Trafford?

02:53Some of them tried to tell me a few things about it, but I don't think that's really necessary.

02:59If you're starting to work at Liverpool, everybody knows, every player that comes in knows,

03:05and every manager that comes in knows how important the game against United is.

03:09It's similar to when you work at Feyenoord, how big the game against Ajax is.

03:12So people tell you, of course, but it's not really necessary,

03:18because if you follow the game of football, which I do,

03:21for a long time you know the importance of United against Liverpool.

03:27Obviously two Dutch managers in charge, you've already met Eric,

03:30both in your home country but then in pre-season too,

03:33how would you describe your relationship with him?

03:36As good and as normal as the relationship you have with many other managers.

03:41So Eric, Rene Hagen and Ludwig van Nistel have joined him,

03:47and the relationship with both of them is also the same as with Eric.

03:51I would call that very good, because all of us respect each other a lot,

03:57because of what these managers did at their former clubs.

04:01They've been successful, all three of them at the clubs they worked at in the past,

04:06so there's a good relationship between us.

04:10Friends?

04:11No, no, no friends.

04:15Friends is something else, I think.

04:17But a very good relationship, but a friend is someone you see a lot and you go out with,

04:22either to dinner or with, but that's not something we've done in the past.

04:26For that we don't know each other well enough.

04:31Hi, Arne. On Federico Chiesa, he hasn't played since the Euros and didn't have a pre-season.

04:37Do the fans have to be a little bit patient with him to see the best out of him?

04:40How excited are you to sign such an exciting winger who is still only 26?

04:45Excited, like I said before.

04:48If we sign someone that can help us achieve our goals and improve the squad,

04:52if we then find someone, of course you're really excited that we brought him in.

04:56I think one of the best things of working here, what I've noticed till now,

05:02is the culture of this team.

05:04They work really hard to try to achieve their goals,

05:07and I think it's really important that the first player you bring in

05:11has that same attitude and brings the same culture.

05:19So he works really hard on and off the pitch to try to get the best out of him,

05:25and he combines this with scoring goals.

05:27And, like I said, really aggressive without the ball,

05:31and those are already two characteristics with him.

05:36Playing on so many positions, on the right, on the left and maybe even in the middle,

05:41makes him an interesting signing for us.

05:43Although I agree with you, we should take care of him in the beginning,

05:46because he didn't train with the team in the last two weeks, but before he did.

05:51We haven't played many game-minutes yet, but we have a very good performance staff,

05:55so we will build him up in the right way,

05:58and then hopefully we can see his quality in the near future.

06:03When you're in the Netherlands, you've experienced one of the fiercest rivalries

06:07in European football with Bane, Audience and Ajax.

06:09I just wondered, how much does that experience prepare you

06:13for the biggest rivalry in English football?

06:16I think preparing for every game takes a lot of time,

06:20and one of the most important things is to prepare them for what they can expect.

06:25And what they can expect is mostly about the players they face,

06:28but I think now playing in a hostile environment with 75,000...

06:36Players have to be aware of that, but the good thing for me,

06:39it might be my first time that I go there with Liverpool,

06:42it's going to be my second time over there.

06:44But many of these players have played there before,

06:46so I don't think I have to prepare them for these 75,000, they've been used to this.

06:52But I have to prepare them in the best possible way of what they can expect,

06:55because United play, in my opinion, a bit different than the last two seasons.

07:01Therefore, I need to prepare them.

07:04Arno, do you think talk of Chiesa's injury record is over-exaggerated?

07:09There's no concerns there for you at all?

07:13Would be the first time that English media over-exaggerate, wouldn't it?

07:17I think it's true that he had a long-term injury with his ACL,

07:23but for the rest I don't think he had big injuries,

07:28minor injuries like every other player may have.

07:31But, again, we have a lot of trust in our performance staff,

07:34and the good thing is that he's not the only winger we have,

07:38he's one out of four where some others can play in that position as well.

07:42So, if he's not available at certain moments,

07:46but not only with him, he will also be with the others,

07:49then there are still enough players for me to choose.

08:00Do you see any more outgoings today, Arno?

08:02Maybe someone like Benzo going out on loan,

08:04or Matt Phillips who's been on the fringes of things?

08:07Again, same for incoming transfers or loans.

08:10If it's the right opportunity for the player and for us as a club, we will act,

08:15and if that opportunity comes for the both of us, it will happen.

08:19But, to be honest, my main attention is on United and not on the outgoings.

08:26And just fitness-wise, how's the case with Jones, are there any more injuries?

08:30At the moment there are not any other injuries except for Curtis Jones,

08:34and he will not train with us today, so for the rest we'll train with his team.

08:41Arno, you said it's going to be your second time in Old Trafford.

08:47What was the first time like, how did you experience that?

08:51Yeah, the moment I said it, I thought,

08:53it's not so smart if people don't know that I've been there before.

08:56Because we lost 4-0, with one of my former clubs,

09:01I think it was the Europa League, when Kuno Solskjaer was still there.

09:05So that wasn't the best experience,

09:09but it's also, although we had a very good team back then with Ajax at home,

09:16we played 0-0 against them, I think I have a better team now to go to Old Trafford.

09:23But you cannot compare, of course, anything.

09:26And one question about when we talked to trainers and managers who worked here,

09:33Van Gaal, Hiddink, Ten Hag, they all said the same,

09:38that they were surprised about the fact that in England there's always pressure on the ball.

09:43If you play United, if you play Juve or Town, it doesn't matter,

09:47of course you're only a short period here, but can you see what they experience?

09:52I'm not sure if they said this or meant this,

09:58what I see is maybe not that there's always pressure on the ball,

10:01I think every team has a high press, most of them do, though,

10:05but the physicality of the league is much, much higher than we are used to in Holland.

10:11In Holland you face a number of 10 to 18, then there's a lot less physicality.

10:19But when we played Staples Bridge, the first half,

10:23they could see the few yellows who were maybe close to,

10:25maybe being a red card.

10:29That's a bit exaggerated, so I get used to the English media.

10:36But, yeah, like I said, it's much harder to win against a number 10 to 18

10:43than it is in Holland if you are Ajax or final, it's obvious.

10:56Jürgen, Javi hasn't really featured much this season,

11:00what's the plan with him and his game time?

11:03Like all the others, it's the same, I think the disadvantage for some of them

11:08without having a lot of playing time is that we only have one game a week,

11:12so we don't have to manage game time in that perspective.

11:16Javi came in 10 minutes, so that's not a lot,

11:18but he, like some others as well who are not playing, have a lot of competition.

11:23That's also one of the reasons why we only brought in one player,

11:25because we think we have a lot of good players,

11:28and we already have a lot of competition.

11:30Javi will get, in my opinion, a lot of playing time if he keeps doing what he does at the moment,

11:37work really hard, show his quality when he comes in,

11:39and he already showed his quality in pre-season.

11:42But he's in competition at this moment,

11:45if you look at the player who's playing on his position, it's Dom Soberslein,

11:50who's done well in the first two games as well.

11:53It's a luxury to have the choice between the two of them.

11:56Yeah, thank you.

11:57Can we just check, is it too early for Chiesa this weekend?

12:00He's going to train with us today,

12:03but there's a bigger chance that he's not in the squad for Sunday than he is,

12:09but if injuries might come up in the upcoming two days we might need him.

12:12I don't expect him to be in, but I cannot guarantee that.

12:23you

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