EXCLUSIVEArne Slot 直面するs a 抱擁する leap up at Liverpool... Big 指名するs from Holland often don't 削減（する） it here, 令状s GRAEME SOUNESS. 加える, why it would be no surprise if an 協定 has been made to sell Mo Salah

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My greatest 関心 if Arne Slot is the man to 取って代わる Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool is not his 親族 inexperience, but more so the Dutch league he is coming from.

We only have to look at how Erik ten Hag has fared up the road at Manchester 部隊d to learn the 落し穴s of a 経営者／支配人 who puts his 信用 in players who were very good in the Eredivisie.

Ten Hag thought so much of his Ajax winger Antony that Man 部隊d paid £82million for him, and he has been a major 失望. There are others at Old Trafford and beyond - Donny 先頭 de Beek, Andre Onana, Li sandro 市場?nez, Memphis Depay, Hakim Ziyech and Davy Klaassen, all players with big 評判s who have not 削減（する） it in our league after starring in Holland.

For years and years, the Dutch travelled 井戸／弁護士席. As players, the likes of Ruud Gullit, Marco 先頭 Basten and Frank Rijkaard went to Italy. Dennis Bergkamp, コマドリ 先頭 Persie and Arjen Robben were hugely successful in the 首相 League. As 経営者／支配人s, Louis 先頭 Gaal, Guus Hiddink and, その上の 支援する, Johan Cruyff, they were 開拓するs.

In the past 10 years or so, that has changed. Frank de Boer lasted just five league games at 水晶 Palace after winning four 肩書を与えるs with Ajax. Ronald Koeman was 解雇（する）d after taking Everton in the 底（に届く） three, while Ten Hag has not been the success Man 部隊d 想像するd.

Liverpool are on the cusp of 調印 Arne Slot (above) as Jurgen Klopp's 後継者 at Anfield

Liverpool's 肩書を与える challenge appeared to grind to a 停止（させる） after their bitter 2-0 敗北・負かす by Everton

Mail Sport columnist Graeme Souness feels it's a 危険 to 任命する a 経営者／支配人 from the Eredivisie

Slot has to look at all of the above and not make the same mistakes. There is enough 証拠 now to show what a 抱擁する leap it is from the Eredivisie to the 首相 League.

If he is to 後継する Klopp then it’s a 勇敢に立ち向かう move by the 決定／判定勝ち（する） 製造者s at Liverpool, but they’ve 明白に done their homework and feel he’s the 権利 man, even if their 選択s were 限られた／立憲的な. Xabi Alonso was the only obvious 候補者 before he committed to Bayer Leverkusen.

Slot doesn’t come with a big 評判, but that does not mean he can’t be successful. It’s a different 時代, but Arsene Wenger is the greatest example of someone with a 比較して low profile who excelled.

Slot won the 肩書を与える with Feyenoord last season, against the weakest Ajax I can remember, a team that 普通は 支配するs their league. That is not to take away from the 業績／成就, winning any league is not 平易な and it was only Feyenoord’s second 肩書を与える since the turn of the century. But this is a 完全に different challenge at Liverpool. You’re up against the very best and the 圧力 to 勝利，勝つ トロフィーs is enormous. He will be taking on Pep Guardiola, Mikel Arteta and others now.

He is also coming into a 状況／情勢 that I had thought was 極端に healthy, and I said so when Klopp 発表するd he was leaving. But, of late, Liverpool have shown a vulnerability and 証拠不十分 I did not think 存在するd. The season has gone flat and the 肩書を与える has gone now. I did not see this coming.

They have gone from the team I believed were going to 勝利，勝つ it, who did not have to play 井戸／弁護士席 to 勝利，勝つ because they had so much firepower, to a team struggling to 得点する／非難する／２０ a goal. That’s two 敗北・負かすs without 得点する／非難する／２０ing against 水晶 Palace and Everton this month.

Dutch 経営者／支配人 Erik ten Hag has not taken Man 部隊d to new 高さs since joining from Ajax

The Reds are showing both vulnerability and 証拠不十分 in these final few weeks of the season

Slot would arrive at Anfield with 親族 inexperience and must challenge for 肩書を与えるs 即時に

At the final 押し進める, they’ve come up short. That is not what 支持する／優勝者s do. As 支持する／優勝者s, you put your foot to the 床に打ち倒す and get over the line in the latter 行う／開催する／段階s of a 選手権 race. Liverpool have not been able to do that, and that leaves a big question 示す at their door.

Slot will also 相続する, if it is not sorted sooner, the 問題／発行する of Mo Salah. He has dropped way below the levels we know of him and has lost his 焦点（を合わせる）, for whatever 推論する／理由, in the second half of the season. Do Liverpool sell him this summer? I would not be surprised if there was an 協定 last summer for him to stay another year and then go off to Saudi Arabia. If he has had his 長，率いる turned, it’s better off him going, and I’m sure a new 経営者／支配人 would agree. Slot will have enough on his plate without a 移転 saga over Salah.

He has big shoes to fill and I know from experience what it is like 取って代わるing 経営者／支配人s who are so 高度に regarded at their club. I followed Kenny Dalglish at Liverpool and Sir Bobby Robson at Newcastle.

At the time, I didn’t think twice about it and was 確信して in my own ability. It didn’t keep me awake at night. But looking 支援する, they were two 職業s I shouldn’t have taken. I should have stayed at Glasgow 特別奇襲隊員s and enjoyed the fruits of the hard work I’d put in during my five years at the club instead of going to Liverpool when I did.

Newcastle was the same - I’d done the hard work at Blackburn and got 促進するd, finished sixth, won a トロフィー and played in Europe twice. I should have stayed and built on that. I walked into a club that was very difficult. The first person who spoke to me when I got there was chairman Freddie Shepherd’s wife, and she said, ‘Ah, so you’re the lion-tamer?’. I thought, ‘What have I come to here?’.

Not that Slot can say no to Liverpool. That is impossible. The point I make is that managing these big football clubs has never been 平易な, and it’s even harder now. He must learn from the failings of others who have made the same 旅行.

Klopp's presence at Anfield will be sorely 行方不明になるd by fans after nine successful years at the club

Frank De Boer was axed by 水晶 Palace after managing just five league games 支援する in 2017

INEOS silence is bad news for Ten Hag

I do not believe Arne Slot will have compatriot Erik ten Hag for company in the?首相 League next season. I think that 決定／判定勝ち（する） has been made and he’ll be leaving Manchester 部隊d, and winning the FA Cup would not change that.

The new co-owners have made no public 宣言 of support, and often it’s the 事例／患者 that silence says far more than words.

The 首相 League is the 酸性の 実験（する） for Man 部隊d and they’re not going to qualify for the 支持する／優勝者s League this season. That is what will 調印（する） Ten Hag’s 運命／宿命.

Also, the manner of them getting to the FA Cup final was 極端に lucky. When they went 3-0 up versus Coventry last Sunday, I switched channels to watch Liverpool at Fulham. Steve Perryman, my old pal from the 刺激（する）s 青年 team, sent me a いっそう少なく-than-complimentary message about Man 部隊d. I thought, ‘What is he on about?’.

I turned 支援する over and it was 3-3! I had to watch the 残り／休憩（する） after that, and Coventry should have won. They were on the 前線 foot throughout extra-time and looked the better team. Man 部隊d looked 発射. They got away with one. I think that result has papered over some very big 割れ目s.

Stop complaining, Pep

Pep Guardiola is moaning about too many matches and the scheduling of fixtures - I’m sorry, that’s the price on the ticket if you are 最高の successful.

I don’t think anyone beyond Manchester City will have any sympathy with him or his club. They have more 最高の，を越す players than anyone else and they should be the one team who can 対処する.

The more successful you are, the more games you have. That has always been the 事例／患者. Get on with it and 選ぶ a team from a squad 十分な of wonderful players, I say.

Manchester City 経営者／支配人 Pep Guardiola has furiously 攻撃する，衝突する out at the busy football calendar

Ashley Young smirked during his 地位，任命する-match interview after Everton's 議論の的になる 2-0 勝利，勝つ last week, which led to Nottingham Forest 地位，任命するing an 爆発性の 声明 on social マスコミ

Furious Nottingham Forest criticised 'three 極端に poor 決定／判定勝ち（する）s' - with Everton 星／主役にする and former England international Young (not pictured) the 申し立てられた／疑わしい 犯人 for every 刑罰，罰則 （人命などを）奪う，主張する?

Toffees were lucky - but they won't care!?

The smile on Ashley Young’s 直面する during his interview after Everton’s 2-0 勝利，勝つ over Nottingham Forest on Sunday told you he knew he’d been lucky not to give away three 刑罰，罰則s.

They were three 刑罰，罰則s, too. Not that I have any time for the 声明 Forest then 解放（する）d. That was very unwise.

But Everton won’t care. Lady Luck shone on them and they took that 勢い into the Merseyside derby, where they just had too much passion and 侵略 for my old team.