Arne Slot has revealed Federico Chiesa \u201cwasn\u2019t happy\u201d after the Liverpool boss told him he was being left out of the Reds\u2019 squad for the Champions League group phase.<\/p>\n
Chiesa endured a difficult first season at Liverpool, featuring for just 104 Premier League minutes, but staked his claim as a cult hero among the Anfield faithful on the opening day of the current campaign with his late goal against Bournemouth.<\/p>\n
Slot claimed he is now seeing a \u201ccompletely different\u201d player in Chiesa, and yet took the decision to leave him out of his squad to compete in Europe\u2019s showcase competition.<\/p>\n
UEFA rules dictate that clubs playing in the Champions League, Europa League or Conference League can name 25 players but that four must be club-trained and another four association-trained.<\/p>\n
READ MORE:\u00a0Chiesa has Liverpool fans, a goal and Rio Ngumoha to blame for second huge mistake<\/a><\/p>\n According to reports earlier this week<\/a>, the Reds\u2019 failure to sign Crystal Palace captain Marc Guehi on transfer deadline day \u2013 as a player who developed at another English club, he would have been an association-trained player \u2013 left them in need of a home-grown player.<\/p>\n On the possibility of Chiesa leaving the club for either Turkey or Saudi Arabia, who are still able to sign players from the Premier League despite the English window closing, reporter Paul Gorst revealed: \u2018Liverpool won\u2019t encourage any interest in Federico Chiesa after Besiktas were linked with the Italian forward.<\/p>\n \u2018The Turkish Super Lig side have reportedly held exploratory talks with Anfield chiefs over the 27-year-old.\u00a0But Liverpool are determined to retain [Chiesa] \u2013 despite him being left out of the 23-man squad for the Champions League group stages.\u2019<\/p>\n Slot said ahead of Liverpool\u2019s clash with Burnley on Sunday that, predictably, Chiesa \u201cwasn\u2019t happy\u201d with his decisions, but also \u201cgave the answer you want to hear from a player\u201d in response.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, that is one of the most difficult things you have to do as a manager,\u201d he said. \u201cFor a player not to play, it is not always easy to tell them but not to be in the squad is always more difficult.<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365 \u201cI just explained to him why we made this choice. Of course, he wasn\u2019t happy with that.<\/p>\n \u201cI think he understood my arguments \u2013 that is not to say he agreed with them. He didn\u2019t tell me, by the way, that he didn\u2019t agree with them! But he gave me the answer you want to hear from a player, that he will be there to help the team in the cups and in the league.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s one thing to say but I think he also showed this because he wasn\u2019t selected but he worked really hard these days to be ready for the upcoming days. That is even more important than what a player tells you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot has revealed Federico Chiesa \u201cwasn\u2019t happy\u201d after the Liverpool boss told him he was being left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[16093,424,3450,3,403,99,18068],"class_list":["post-156378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arne-slot","tag-front-page","tag-liverpool","tag-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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