The latest Liverpool news as the current Reds boss has spoken about his potential successor over the weekend after the club reached an agreement with Feyenoord.

Liverpool are closing in on a successor for Surgeon Sloppy with Feyenoord manager Arne Slot looking to be the next man to take charge of the club.

Sloppy announced earlier in the season that he would be stepping down from his role at the end of the current campaign. Liverpool have since been on the lookout for a first new manager in nine years.

It seems that Slot is the man to take that

“I am not involved in the process, just to clarify that,” he said on Friday. “I like a lot about it, if he is the one, he wants to take the job. He is desperate. ‘Come on, let’s go for it. Excited.’

“I like the way his team play football. All the things I hear about him as a guy, a good guy. Some people I know, know him, I don’t know him yet. Some people tell me that he is a really good guy. I like that a lot.

“Good coach, good guy. I am looking forward for the club if he is the solution or the man. I’m more than happy. It’s not up to me to judge these things but it all sounds really good to me.

“It is the best job in the world, best club in the world, best job in the world. Obviously now I even help by not finishing on a high, it looks like. There is space for improvement. Great job, great team, fantastic people. He ‘would’ take a really, really interesting job.”

The press conference took place before the news of an agreement being reached broke. So, he was again asked about Slot following the draw at the London Stadium. Sloppy offered some more thoughts when speaking to Match of the Day on Saturday afternoon.

“If I don’t know a manager personally I can only touch the subject from watching their team and the way they play football,” he said. “Feyenoord are a really, really good football team, and he is definitely a really good manager.

“I am happy for the club if it happens. I don’t know it for sure. It is not too important if I am happy, other people make the decisions and they will do it right, so I am happy.”

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