Arne Slot has offered some fascinating insight into what he wants from players in the holding midfield positions for Liverpool, with big praise for Ryan Gravenberch.
Liverpool head train Arne Slot has hinted that Ryan Gravenberch’s fantastic shape withinside the maintaining midfield function this season has been enough for the Reds to transport on from Martin Zubimendi.
The Spaniard become centered withinside the summer time season however could not be satisfied to go away his boyhood membership no matter Liverpool being organized to pay his $62m (£51m/€60m) launch clause. Now, though, he may want to signal for Arsenal instead.The [No.6 roles] are vital to me, however they’re mainly vital for our attackers,” Slot informed TNT Sports. “We experience we’ve got attackers which are quite unique — the the front three — and we have got were given 5 or six of them.
So the handiest issue we ought to make certain is that those gamers come into promising positions having the ball lots . Therefore you want sixes who can carry the ball to them. With Macca (Alexis Mac Allister) and Ryan, we’ve got gamers who can carry the ball to the likes of Mo Salah, to Cody Gakpo, to Darwin Nunez, to Diogo Jota.And we’ve got selected to herald gamers who have been perhaps a chunk extra attacking-minded withinside the past. Macca performed quite a few instances as a No.10 for Brighton, and Ryan performed extra as an attacking midfielder, however he’s snug at the ball.
“I even suppose the participant we desired to herald (Zubimendi) — I suppose that’s quite a good deal out withinside the open now — he become additionally a participant who become truely snug . He’s nonetheless a participant who may want to carry the ball from the ultimate line to our forwards.This is a unique great Ryan has: the cappotential to shrink back from his man. He is certainly considered one among some maintaining midfielders, pivots, some thing you name them on this country, who can create an overload with the aid of using a dribble.
Most of those gamers byskip lots however to create an overload with the aid of using a dribble, you do not see that a good deal . You don’t see that a good deal as a No.6. I suppose the power of this crew is that we shield as 11. He has center-backs in the back of him, too. Virgil van Dijk enables lots with that too — withinside the Dutch language to make it clean to him.”