Arne Slot is planning to spend the Bank Holiday in Holland – even if Liverpool are confirmed as Premier League champions on Sunday. The Merseysiders can clinch the title with five games to spare if Arsenal lose at Ipswich and the Reds win at relegation-threatened Leicester.
It would take them level with Manchester United’s record of 20 league championships. But Slot insists he hasn’t even thought about how he will celebrate winning the triumph – and revealed that his intention is to spend two days with his family in the Netherlands regardless of what happens at Portman Road and the King Power Stadium.
Asked if he is planning to celebrate winning the title in his first season at Anfield, the Dutchman said: “At this moment in time, nothing at all. I’m only thinking about trying to win a game of football against Leicester – and then we have two days off.
“So I will go back to Holland on Monday. That’s what my life is. First, let’s win on Sunday and see how things will work out. Right now, the plan is to go to Holland on Monday and Tuesday and be back here for Wednesday.”
Should Arsenal win their next two league games – including Crystal Palace at the Emirates on Wednesday – and Liverpool defeat Leicester, Slot’s team can seal the title by beating Tottenham in front of an Anfield crowd next Sunday. Asked if he’d considered the prospect of winning the title imminently, the Reds boss replied: “The honest answer is no.
“I’m not sure you believe me but that is the honest answer. My whole life I’m living in the moment, in the day, and I’m not looking backwards a lot and I’m not looking forwards a lot because it’s the type of person that I am, that I am not constantly looking back at what I have achieved at former clubs.
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“That is also so difficult in football, people constantly tell you, ‘Try to enjoy it, try to enjoy the whole journey’, but the only thing you are thinking about as a manager is, ‘Oh, at the weekend there is a game coming up as well and we need to win that and we need to win the next and we need to win the next’.
“So, maybe that’s one of the reasons: because I’m already so long in football that you get used to the fact of living day by day and trying to influence day by day.”
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