Liverpool -Baas Arne Slot went to enemy territory in midweek to see Bruce Springsteen in Concert in the Etihad Stadium of Manchester City, prior to the Premier League final of Sunday
Fans of Liverpool think that Arne Slot has been ‘boss’ this season – so it was appropriate that the Dutchman spent an evening watching Bruce Springsteen during the week.
Slot ventured into enemy territory to see the 75-year-old rock legend produce a spectacular three hours of his hits in Manchester’s Co-op Live, the new Arena with 23,000 capacity built a hundred meters away from the Etihad Stadium. It is typical of Slot’s mentality that he was able to take something from the show that can come in handy if he tries to bring more glory days to Anfield next season.
The head boss has admitted that from the first day of the training for the season in July, he will call Virgil van Dijk and Co to be more difficult than the rest. Slot said: “I heard what Springsteen does during his daily life to be able to do what he is doing. Talking about people who have good habits!
“Springsteen, at the age of 75, is still able to put three o’clock on stage without even a minute of rest. I think he took three or four drinks – what I assume was water. I know how disciplined he is to achieve this because I was with someone who knows him.
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“I love his music and I can ‘sing’ born in the US ‘ – but I can’t sing every song.
“But what I acknowledged is that people are just as passionate about Bruce Springsteen as our fans about Liverpool. I like to look at the joy he gives his fans and the joy that our players give the fans on Anfield – so that’s a great comparison.”
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Liverpool has taken only one point of three games since sealing the title – and Slot wants his team to engage the style against FA Cup winners Crystal Palace in a fixture that will be repeated in August in the Community Shield in Wembley. The boss of the Reds thinks that he only has to look in the eyes of his players on the first day of the training for the season to see if they are the same hunger to go again.
But he does not agree that Liverpool will find it more difficult to keep their crown next year – because he feels that clubs are already treating their matches against the Merseysiders as a cup final.
Slot said: “I get a first insight into the first day of the training for the season where we are wise to see if we are serial winners.
“People will say” How can you judge one day, it’s impossible? ‘But it will give me a sign where we are, because it will be a test of how much they have done in the low season.
“I get a first insight into where we are wise to see if we are serial winners. But I don’t think it will be more difficult next season if we are champions because Liverpool is always a big game. It is the same for us when the city arrives or arrives or Arsenal arrives.
“Did I miss a club? Maybe Manchester United, but because of their current situation it might be a bit different, but maybe yes. With these clubs it is always so loud and everyone looks forward to it.
“If we had finished third or fourth this season, that would not have changed when Liverpool plays the world or England somewhere in Europe, then everyone looks forward to it.”
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