Liverpool head coach, Arne Slot has reportedly stated that he is no friends with Manchester United manager and compatriot, Erik ten Hag.
Given what Ten Hag accomplished at Ajax and the fact that this is the first time two Dutchmen have managed both Liverpool and United, Slot maintains that he has the utmost regard for Ten Hag.
This raised questions about whether they are too close and how different their relationship was from that of Jose Mourinho and Jurgen Klopp, or of Sir Alex Ferguson and Kenny Dalglish and Rafa Benitez.
When the two bitter rivals meet on Sunday at Old Trafford, The Mirror reports that Slot says their relationship ends there and he promises Liverpool supporters that there won’t be an old-pals act. “No friends,” the head coach of Liverpool declared. Friends are a different story.
“We have a very good relationship, but a friend is someone you see a lot, you go out with and go out with for dinner. That’s not something we’ve done in the past. We don’t know each other well enough.
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“Our relationship is as good and as normal as the relationship with many other managers. Rene Hake and Ruud van Nistelrooy have joined him at United and the relationship is also very good, all of us respect each other a lot.
“They have been successful, all three of them at the clubs they’ve worked at in the past.”
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