Liverpool are about to hire a new coach who Arne Slot holds in ‘very high regard’

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Liverpool are reportedly set to make a new addition to their backroom staff at the behest of under-pressure head coach Arne Slot.

Plenty of Reds supporters are hoping that Slot will be given the sack at the culmination of Sunday’s final match of the Premier League season against Brentford.

However, there are no signs that Liverpool owners FSG are ready to pull the trigger on the Dutchman, and the Americans are even said to be readying the appointment of Etienne Reijnen, who Slot tried to bring with him from Feyenoord in 2024.

FSG would be crazy to keep Arne Slot if Liverpool lose to Brentford… right?

13 Premier League defeats would be more than Brendan Rodgers’ last full season!!

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Liverpool ‘closing in’ on Etienne Reijnen appointment

Though the majority of Liverpool fans are hoping for a complete overhaul of their coaching staff this summer, FSG are seemingly going to roll the dice on keeping Slot instead.

The 47-year-old’s position will be strengthened by his choice of assistant coming in, and The Guardian report that Liverpool are now ‘closing in’ on Reijnen.

Slot spoke about his former PEC Zwolle teammate during Friday’s pre-Brentford press conference, but while he refused to comment on the process of hiring Reijnen, he did give a glowing reference for his compatriot.

“As long as things are not done, then I will not be commenting on who we are signing or who we don’t,” he said.

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“It is fair to say that I have worked with him before and I have a very high regard for him in terms of the coach he is.

“It is also clear that I tried to sign him two years ago when I first came here but we couldn’t do it.”

There is no further information on who Reijnen will be replacing, although it is widely assumed to be Giovanni van Bronckhorst, who has been linked with a director’s position at Feyenoord.

In the meantime, Liverpool are claimed to be ‘working on’ a move for Reijnen, whose arrival would surely end any speculation that Slot could be imminently removed.