Arne Slot offers a vague response to Liverpool’s transfer question

Liverpool manager Arne Slott has refused to be drawn into January transformation Speculation after watching his team draw 1-1 with Nottingham Forest.

The Reds trailed at the City Ground after Chris Wood scored his 13th Premier League goal of the season, and were still trailing after 65 minutes when Slott decided to make a double substitution, replacing centre-back Ibrahima Konate with striker Diogo Jota as well as bringing on Kostas Tsimikas. He replaces Andy Robertson in a direct exchange at left-back.

The move paid off immediately as Jota headed home Tsimikas’ corner, and the Premier League leaders should do just that. Maybe he would go on to win the game like Forestwhich jumped Arsenal to second place, was starting to tire.

Speaking after the match, Slott was asked whether or not the performance highlighted any areas he would like to strengthen in January, but the Dutchman shied away from the question and instead focused on the players he already has at his disposal.

He said: “I think you saw today again that I can still strengthen the team or influence the game through the substitutes on the bench. It is not the first time this season, these players have helped us, and I can bring them in.” .

“If you look at today, as I said, I couldn’t have asked for more. I told them at half-time don’t get frustrated, you won’t get many chances, it’ll probably be a slow game.” But stay focused on what you have to do and hopefully you get two or three chances and let’s try to score from that, I was completely wrong because they created chance after chance.

Jota’s goal was his fifth Premier League A strike for what has been an injury-hampered season so far. The Portuguese also suffered some missteps during the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons but still has a huge impact for Liverpool.

In fact, his half-hour appearance against Forest saw him take three shots on target, take seven touches inside the opposition penalty area and generally cause chaos. Liverpool I pushed for the winning goal.

He added: “He had already had a big impact before when he participated against Fulham, but after that match he had a bit of a setback, and then in the matches he participated in after that, I also felt that he needed more time to find his rhythm.” A slot of 28 years old.

“It’s not just with him, I see that with other players who are out for a few weeks or a few months, it’s difficult to get that intensity in Premier League matches straight away. It was very pleasing to see that today could have probably been better than it was.” On him against Fulham when he came on he had a huge impact, and he was the one, apart from Mohamed Salah, who had a few chances to score our second goal.

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