Reflecting on last season's Premier League title triumph, Slot says he took just as much pride in how his team played last term/
Speaking during a new episode of ‘The Reds Roundtable’, the Dutchman said: “As a manager, you can win the league, you can win the Champions League, you can win an FA Cup or a League Cup, but the biggest thing you can win is that you can play the nicest football to watch.
“Although at this moment of time, fans might argue this a little bit, but it is absolutely something I am aiming for. I always want to have the ball, I always want to be intense, I want the fans to like what they see.
“That is something I dislike the most, I would almost say even more than our results, even more than the league table, that not all of our fans are every single moment of the game seeing us as a joy to watch. The hardest thing is I even understand, because I agree with them.
“Trophies are one thing. But being a team or a club or a manager that stands for something, that stands for good football, is I think in the long term even worth more.”
Ambitions
During the conversation, Reds chief exec Billy Hogan was asked about how the club plans to build on last season's trophy glory.
He explained, “The term ‘sleeping giant’ was used when FSG was looking at Liverpool, in terms of this incredible potential that the club had, and it had obviously fallen on some difficult times. Our job and our focus has been on trying to return it to - as we believe - its rightful place.
“That job is frankly never done, that’s something we’re constantly working on. Improvements that we’ve made from an infrastructure standpoint, the continued investment in the squad.
“At the end of the day, this is about winning trophies and about making our supporters happy and proud of the team. We’re going to continue to do that.”
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