Liverpool's changes this season have been a story. They were in trouble since the end of last season. It was announced that manager Jurgen Klopp would be leaving the club at the end of the season. Jurgen Klopp has been at Liverpool for a long time and has achieved many successes. Liverpool have been far from great successes for a long time. There were even times when they struggled a lot before this.

The Champions League with Benitez is also a long way off, they have never won the Premier League and their number of domestic titles has also been surpassed by bitter rivals Manchester United. It was in this context that Jurgen Klopp arrived. There were questions in the early seasons of the build-up, but in the end, they won 1 Champions League, their first 𝐄𝐏𝐋 1, an FA Cup, 2 League Cups (now called the Carabao Cup), They have won the Club World Cup once. They reached the Europa League final in 2015-16 but were defeated by Sevilla, and they finished second in the Champions League finals in 2017-18 and 2015-16 to Real Madrid.

However, they have not only won the trophies but have also brought back a level of play, introduced a style of play and built a team that is respected by everyone. They have also brought in Van Dijk, Salah and Mane, who will be included in the list of the best players of all time, and they have also brought in players like Alexander-Arnold, and made Jordan Henderson look like a different person.

When a coach like this leaves, it is not surprising that there are concerns about who will replace him. At that time, when Arsene Wenger was in charge, many Liverpool fans were clearly unhappy. They were keen to see what Jurgen Klopp was like and what he could do at Dortmund, but there were times when he struggled in the early years, and it was very difficult to imagine a manager like Arsene Wenger taking over at Liverpool after Klopp.

Arsene Wenger has only played for clubs like Zwevego, Breda and Rotterdam, and has only had brief spells in charge of Klopp and AZ Alkmaar, before taking charge of Feyenoord in 2021. He has only managed to win the Eredivisie once in 2022-23 and the KNVB Cup once in 2023-24, which is not enough. They reached the 2022 Conference League final but were beaten by Mourinho's Roma, so it was not a big deal.

Worse still, Manchester United had previously appointed Erik ten Hag, who had been a force in the Dutch Eredivisie and even beat Real Madrid in the Champions League, but when he was plagued by problems, inefficiencies and problems, he also had a negative view of the coaches in the Dutch league.

Arneslot is smart. Since arriving, he has not said much and just got on with his job. He has quietly built the team he wants, giving each player the best possible training with technical assistance. The team clearly needed a midfielder and defender in the summer transfer window, but he is calm. He has even said that they are ready for this season.

Arneslot's approach is clear. He didn't completely destroy Jurgen Klopp's formation, but he started to make small changes. He used players who had not performed well before, and used them in the right places. He brought out the best in the players who were already good. His style was to press in the midfield and create space on the wings, and to attack from the 14th zone, and the way he built the game from the back was a little different from Jurgen Klopp's. But he didn't focus on the differences, he focused on the similarities, and he prioritized the results and the work, and he gradually brought the game into his own game rather than immediately bringing it into his own. That's why he is currently at the top of the 𝐄𝐏𝐋 and is at the top of the Champions League group stage.

His key is to do his job without saying much and to get the players to do it. No matter how comfortable any manager is with the board, the fans love him, If you can't control the players' dressing room, you're going to fail sooner or later. That's what Arsene Wenger, who was a regular in the game, did. The players who followed him and got such good results, became more convinced that this was the right way, that he was the right man, and they started to follow him more.

Then he can change the way he plays. The players will follow suit. If tactics are as important as Arnault and Liverpool's lofty heights, then communication and organizational strategies off the pitch should be studied as much as on the pitch.

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