Arne Slot and Liverpool have yet to dip into the transfer market in January but talk around one of their potential summer targets has got louder in recent weeks

Home fans irate after Liverpool awarded first-half penaltyVisiting goalkeeper makes vital saves to keep clean sheet “Having Mo Salah definitely helps,” said Arne Slot after the Premier League’s leading goalscorer notched twice at Bournemouth to stretch Liverpool’s lead in the title race as the Egyptian continued to write his name in the record books. A 2-0 win at the Vitality left Arsenal with a deficit of nine points to bridge. “If you want to win here, maybe you need a bit of luck as well, because the margins are so small,” said Slot. Andoni Iraola’s team had previously beaten Manchester City, Arsenal and, last week, Nottingham Forest 5-0 but Liverpool forged on where their rivals had slipped. Continue reading...

Arne Slot’s team are masters of making their opponents, Bournemouth this time, look as if they are in poor form Liverpool this season have been very good at being good enough. There have been very few games in which they’ve dismantled the opposition. They have won fewer league games by more than three goals than Tottenham have, but ended the day nine points clear at the top with their closest rivals to play the defending champions on Sunday. If Liverpool do, as they surely will, go on to win the title, it will have been an old-fashioned sort of success, a league won not by the spectacular or the flamboyant but by consistency and calmness, by ruthless accumulation. This was Liverpool’s sixth 2-0 win in the league; more than a quarter of their games so far. It’s a scoreline that speaks of control, of winning games with a little to spare, taking freakish equalisers, ill luck and odd refereeing decisions out of the equation, without being flashy and demanding overexertion: 2-0 is the scoreline of champions. Arsenal, like Liverpool, began the season with a pair of 2-0 wins but, since then, they have won 2-0 only once. Continue reading...

Mohamed Salah scored both goals as Liverpool won 2-0 over Bournemouth on Saturday, the Egyptian's double extending their lead on the top of the table to nine points

Liverpool manager Arne Slot praises Mohamed Salah's performance after the forward scores twice against Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium.

Liverpool march on as league leaders, departing with no little relief from Bournemouth. Arne Slot’s team had not fallen into the traps Andoni Iraola’s team have used to sink top-four opponents this season. Mohamed Salah, with customary efficiency, scored twice to claim the three points. If his first came after a highly debatable penalty award, the second, a left-footed chip hit like a prime Tiger Woods approach shot, was a goal of inarguable beauty. It meant Liverpool had negotiated one of their most demanding remaining assignments and sent the pressure back into Arsenal’s fraying mindset. The post-match celebrations reflected the importance of victory. A game too far for Bournemouth? They were unchanged, as necessity has demanded for weeks now, Liverpool able to field the same XI that swept aside Ipswich last week. A lack of jeopardy in the week’s Champions League action meant only Andy Robertson and Cody Gakpo had played at PSV Eindhoven. Continue reading...

Football Focus' Dion Dublin and Ellen White discuss Liverpool head coach Arne Slot's "genius work" during his debut season in the Premier League.

Tottenham star Micky van de Ven has proved an inspired signing but in the past has very much been on Arne Slot's radar with the Liverpool boss failing twice with bids

Liverpool boss Arne Slot addressed the future of James McConnell and his January transfer plans after the young midfielder's standout performance against PSV Eindhoven

Liverpool haven't made a signing in the winter transfer window and with deadline day fast approaching, decisions need to be made on potential arrivals and departures

Richard Hughes switched from Cherries last summer‘It’s no surprise to me that they are able to compete’ Arne Slot has credited Liverpool’s sporting director, Richard Hughes, with turning Bournemouth into one of the toughest assignments in the Premier League. Hughes joined Liverpool last summer from Bournemouth, where he had been technical director during the club’s rise from the Championship and led the appointment of Andoni Iraola as manager. The former Bournemouth and Portsmouth midfielder was also responsible for players such as Justin Kluivert to the Vitality Stadium. He was appointed Liverpool’s sporting director by Michael Edwards, a friend from their time together at Fratton Park. Continue reading...

Liverpool take on Bournemouth on Saturday in a tough test at the Vitality Stadium and Reds boss Arne Slot has taken the opportunity to praise the work of Andoni Iraola

Liverpool trio Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk will all see their contracts expire in the summer, with Arne Slot insisting he is in regular contract with the three

Manager Arne Slot says Liverpool want Mohamed Salah, who is out of contract in the summer, to sign a new deal.