Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has mentioned the membership are already engaged on strengthening in the summertime switch window however insists he’s blissful along with his squad.
Slot signed simply two gamers after arriving at Anfield from Feyenoord Rotterdam final summer time; ahead Federico Chiesa and goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili, who’s spending this season on mortgage with La Liga aspect Valencia.
Regardless of the membership’s lack of switch exercise, Liverpool have excelled beneath Slot this season and are high of each the Premier League and Champions League tables.
Liverpool have but to usher in any reinforcements within the January switch window, nonetheless Slot has revealed it’s more likely to be a unique story in the summertime.
“Liverpool ought to all the time be competing for a league title, we should always all the time be competing for the Champions League,” he mentioned in an interview for the BBC’S Soccer Focus. “I am hoping I can preserve the membership at that stage.
“I do know individuals typically query this as a result of they have not seen us doing rather a lot within the switch market in the summertime and now within the winter as nicely. There is a motive for that — as a result of we’re proud of the squad.
“However I do know we’re positively engaged on strengthening in the summertime.”
Slot additionally heaped reward on captain Virgil van Dijk, who’s out of contract at Liverpool in the summertime, and admitted his crew have defied even his personal expectations with their success this season.
“All people right here in England would let you know that Virgil van Dijk is the perfect defender on this planet,” he mentioned. “In Holland, he bought a bit extra criticism than he will get over right here in England. I used to be, in a really optimistic approach, shocked how good he was on the ball and the way he might play soccer by way of the traces.
“From the primary day I used to be like ‘wow, that is positively one other stage than I am used to.’ However individuals in England had been used to this.”
Slot added: “You do not assume after 20 video games we may have that many factors and I wasn’t anticipating us to be high with the margin now we have.
“It is all the time good to be up there, however no one would have anticipated this. I am the final one who would have anticipated [Manchester] Metropolis to have such a foul run.”