Liverpool<\/a> head coach believes his squad will improve but would struggle to withstand further injury setbacks. \u201cI\u2019m very happy with the squad, let that be clear,\u201d Slot said. \u201cBut it\u2019s obvious we have three long-term injuries. That\u2019s why we tried to strengthen in the winter break and the player you mentioned, in the end, wasn\u2019t available.<\/p>\n\u201cI think there\u2019s more to come from this group of players for obvious reasons. Some reasons I probably blame myself for a bit, but some things I cannot do anything about: injuries, a player not ready to play three games a week. But it\u2019s clear if we have an injury crisis, even more than we already have, then that makes things even more difficult. We have 16 players available and Trey [Nyoni] and Rio [Ngumoha] are two of them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis squad is able to do better and more than we\u2019ve done until now, in my opinion, but then they all need to stay available. That\u2019s going to be a hell of a challenge because we have three games in seven days coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liverpool beat Chelsea to the signing of Jacquet, who was also coveted by Bayern Munich, and Slot insisted he agreed with the club\u2019s longer-term transfer strategy. \u201cI always want the best for the club even if in the short term it is not ideal for me,\u201d he said. \u201cI am not saying it is [not ideal] but if it means this, I would always go for the signing that is best for the club. I knew which club I went into. This club has a model of signing talented players younger. I have always liked to work in that way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot has said Liverpool have \u201ca hell of a challenge\u201d to prevent injuries affecting their ambitions for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-451523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451523","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=451523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}