Arne Slot hasn’t forgotten what Gary Neville mentioned about Liverpool earlier than the beginning of the 2024/25 season!
When the Sky Sports activities pundit gave his Premier League predictions on the outset of the marketing campaign, he had the Reds down to complete in fifth place, claiming that they’d undergo a post-Jurgen Klopp hangover.
Quick ahead to Sunday night, when the Merseysiders emphatically dispatched Manchester Metropolis to increase their lead on the high of the desk to 9 factors, and the ex-Manchester United defender went on to declare that LFC at the moment are ‘unbelievable favourites’ to win the title.
Slot reminds Neville of ghastly prediction
Slot started his pre-Newcastle press convention on Tuesday morning with a reference to that volte-face from Neville, telling reporters (by way of Liverpool Echo): “Gary Neville had a special opinion about us at first of the season!”
As soon as he’d gotten that cheeky dig out of the way in which, the Reds boss continued: “I’ve mentioned many instances already, we don’t have a look at it like this [LFC being title favourites]. We all know we’ve a tough week arising. I believe it’s even more durable going away to Newcastle. We’re not even midway via the season but.”
Neville wasn’t lengthy altering his tune!
Not even probably the most ardent and optimistic of Liverpool followers would’ve anticipated us to be 9 factors clear simply 13 video games into the Premier League season, however Neville predicting us to overlook out on the highest 4 in August seems to be an more and more comical take with every passing week.
It exhibits simply how emphatically the Reds have confirmed the summer time doubters mistaken that, inside three-and-a-half months, the Sky Sports activities pundit has now modified the hymn sheet to assert that we’re agency favourites to win the title.
Perhaps there’s a component of him making such a grandiose assertion with an undercurrent of ‘If you happen to lose it from right here it’s an almighty bottle job’, a frightful situation that the staunch United disciple would little question relish, nevertheless it nonetheless represents fairly the revisionism from the 49-year-old.
As pleasing as Liverpool’s present place may be, Slot is aware of full nicely that a lot can change even over the course of the following month, and we count on that he gained’t get carried away with the established order. Simply as he has completed to this point, he’ll take it one match at a time and see the place it leaves his crew.
