Slot on Liverpool’s “Big” summer transfer plans

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Liverpool boss Arne Slot on Virgil Van Dijk’s comments to expect a big summer ahead in terms of transfers and whether their plans are on track Melwood, Liverpool, UK

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00:00And Virgil's spoken recently about it being a big summer for the club,

00:04and you don't often hear that from players, but maybe telling of obviously his stature within the squad.

00:10But how important was that to the two of them, Virgil and Mo,

00:13that obviously there are those assurances of the club building to the future, of course?

00:17Yeah, I think at Liverpool there's always a big summer at a club like this,

00:21and it's already a big summer now because maybe the players don't follow everything

00:27as it's been said in the media, me neither, but what I do know sitting here every time,

00:31that it was a big thing, can we hold on to them, can we hold on to them,

00:35and by holding on already on two, it's already a big summer.

00:40And let's see what the rest of the summer will bring,

00:45but it would be strange for me to say now that I'm not happy with the team we are having,

00:50because I've said this for a year, so we are happy with the team we're having,

00:54and maybe if we can even keep that team that would already be a big summer.

00:58Karl?

00:59On that though, people always say if you stand still you go backwards in terms of champions,

01:05so how much are you planning for the improvements that have to be made,

01:09and where do you think improvements have to be made in this team,

01:12which has done so well already this season?

01:14Yeah, we've showed the opposite last season, because we didn't change anything,

01:18so I don't think we went downwards.

01:23But in general I agree with you, but there's also lots of study being done,

01:31the longer a team plays together the more success it has.

01:35So I think the core of the team you want to keep as long as you can together,

01:40as long as they are performing in the best possible way.

01:43But it is also in general good to have some new energy in and around the place

01:48with one or two new players, that I agree on.

01:52But it isn't really a necessity if you look at the quality we have

01:58and the quality of the season we've had,

02:00because again we saw during the week how good of a team Newcastle is,

02:07so they're number three now.

02:09So that they played so well against us in the League Cup final

02:14is probably not a surprise anymore.

02:16And Paris Saint-Germain has been good,

02:19but Villa showed the number seven at the moment in England,

02:23that they can win from Paris Saint-Germain.

02:26What a league we are in.

02:29Here we go.

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