Arne Slot discusses Liverpool 'chaos' as he outlines difference to Jurgen Klopp approach

New Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has outlined how his team will be different from the one that Jurgen Klopp created at Anfield ahead of the 2024/25 season kicking off this weekend away at Ipswich Town.

While there will be a lot of continuity from the previous tactical set-up, Slot says his team will have less "chaos" around the opposition penalty area. As Curtis Jones and others have outlined during the summer , the plan is going to be more about control and penning an opponent in — possibly a little closer to how Pep Guardiola has Manchester City set up.

"The style of play has been with my teams where I worked, I think, always the same," Slot told the French outlet Canal+ (via Liverpool's official website ) ahead of the new campaign kicking off. "There are a lot of similarities with Jurgen Klopp, with the way they played in the past, and I’m hoping we will see these similarities in the upcoming weeks and months.

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"We like to have the ball, we don’t like the other team to have the ball… but the Premier League is a league where many good clubs are and many clubs want to have the ball, so we have to fight really hard for us to have the ball. If we have the ball, we want to score – that’s quite simple of course! We want to be intense in everything we do.

"Maybe the only slight difference there is, is that after we win the ball, I like to go forward just as Jurgen liked it, but I sometimes like it when players try to keep the ball and not play the difficult ball, where Jurgen or the former regime maybe liked the chaotic scenes in and around the [penalty area] a lot as well. They were really, really, really successful with that for so many years.

"But it sometimes also depends a bit on the players you have. I think we’re trying to find the balance between trying to create chaos at certain moments and trying to keep possession of the ball a bit longer in other moments."

Liverpool.com says: It might not be as full-throttle as Klopp's side once was but the truth is, Liverpool has not been "Heavy Metal" for some time now. The German moved towards a more controlled style of play as his team improved and Slot will simply be taking that even further as he looks to put his own stamp on things.