Arne Slot away from Liverpool, the immediate future may speak Italian
The news came as a surprise on Saturday, and the echo was immediate: Arne Slot is leaving Liverpool a year ahead of the natural expiration of his contract, set for June 30, 2027, following an anonymous season by the Reds, coupled with some internal friction and a widespread feeling that the cycle never really took off after the smiles of the first year.
The farewell immediately ignited market rumors as much in England, with Liverpool ready to arm wrestle with Crystal Palace to secure Andoni Iraola (who in the meantime has said no to Milan), as in the Rossoneri milieu itself, with the management that, despite rumors of an interest in Oliver Glasner with Ralf Rangnick as a possible technical director, could try to revise its plans and figure out the margins of an assault on Slot himself as early as the next few hours.
Between the rumors bounced around on social networks and among insiders, moreover, some have hinted at a possible involvement of Slot in the Italian national team’s revival project: a suggestion that, however, has no concrete evidence at the moment, also because the Italian Football Federation is waiting for the elections next June 22 to outline the Italian team’s plans toward Euro 2028 and the 2030 World Cup.
At the age of 1978, seen on the playing fields in the jerseys of Zwolle, NAC Breda, Sparta Rotterdam and Zwolle again in a long professional career that ended in 2013, Arne Slot started coaching Zwolle’s own youth team in 2013, then moved to Cambuur the following year, first as deputy and then as head coach. He was then on the bench of AZ (from 2017 to 2019 as deputy, in the following two years leading the team) and then moved on to Feyenoord, with which he won a league and a national cup.
Two of his seasons at Liverpool: in 2024-2025 he won the Premier League in his first year, picking up Jurgen Klopp’s legacy in the best possible way. In his second season, however, he achieved only the minimum goal of Champions League qualification, but did not add any more trophies to the Reds’ trophy cabinet.
