Sam Allardyce has been awestruck by Arne Slot since accepting 'the biggest job in the country' - replacing Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool
What's more, the former Everton and England manager can't understand why the Dutchman's style of play would be the target for any sort of criticism.
The Reds resume their early-season conquest with a trip to Southampton on Sunday
A slight shift in tactics to adjust the way Liverpool press and defend as a unit have facilitated 15 wins from 17 outings under Slot
I listen to talkSPORT a lot and I’ve heard a few Liverpool fans saying it's not the same, and saying that it's not the football that Jurgen Klopp gave us.
“I had a look at the stats and they're not that great, but they're still winning,"
"He’s looking at how to project a win or how to change to get a win. He's sacrificing some of that overplay to make sure he wins a football match."
Ultimately impressed with these tweaks, the ex-Everton and Three Lions coach argued:
"I find it very difficult to accept a Liverpool fan criticising him when he had the biggest job in the country this year, replacing Jurgen Klopp.@
"You look at how many managers have been brought in to replace top managers, like Sir Alex at Man Utd. Man City's transition has been pretty good, but Pep [Guardiola] struggled in his first year until he got to grips with it.
“Arsenal struggled for a long time when trying to replace Arsene Wenger.”
"So when you've got a job like that, Arne Slot's doing a magnificent job, And it looks like the players are enjoying it."
the passion of players like Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk attests to Allardyce's thoughts
The same can be said for those that follow by example, with Trent Alexander-Arnold, Luis Diaz, Ibrahima Konate and Ryan Gravenberch just a handful who have displayed vast improvement
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