Before 3pm of the Premier League's first Saturday of the season , Arne Slot might already have broken the mould at Liverpool. No manager in the Premier League era has ever won their first game as Reds boss and the visit to newly-promoted Ipswich Town on Saturday lunchtime offers Slot the chance to take a small slice of history home from Portman Road on the club's first visit since February 2002. It may not necessarily be the biggest feather in the cap across the next nine months but there is absolutely no harm in starting as you mean to go on.
Slot has shown two sides to his personality during his first summer at Anfield, revealing a self-assured, laid-back and confident character when speaking on issues such as squad building, transfer business and the quality of players at his disposal. I heard what Arne Slot said when asked about Liverpool transfers - he turned question on its head EXCLUSIVE: What FSG are planning after Liverpool thrilled with Taylor Swift success On the flip side, those who got to see him at work pitchside of Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field last month at open training will have noted a passionate and driven coach who had no qualms rolling up his sleeves and getting his hands dirty. As the job title denotes, Slot is very much the head coach now and his possession-based ideas look to have already seeped into a squad that is bursting with quality in all departments.
Of course, that judgement has been gathered from a relatively short sample size of non.