Arne Slot confirms Liverpool have signed a NEW secret weapon | OneFootball

Liverpool been extremely careful in crafting Arne Slot 2.0 this summer and there is a reason why.

Firstly, the amount of money that has been spent is extortionate, even though you feel that signing quality players demands such a financial outlay nowadays. £300m takes time and consideration.

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And secondly, replacing four starters was never going to be easy. Slot finally had an opportunity to mould the Reds into a multi-functional side in his image. Tactically we were in for a major change.

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Winning the Premier League last season was phase one, but there are other competitions that the Reds will have felt they could improve in, alongside attempting to retain their league title crown.

Slot's NEW secret weapons for success

In an interview with Men in Blazers, the Dutch coach revealed what he's been getting up to this summer, looking at different ways for Liverpool to become a different animal on the pitch this season.

He said: "We saw more and more teams going to a lower block than is even possible [last season] and one of the reasons we still won those games is because we kept a clean sheet; we were working that hard so that we only needed a goal to win the game. And we managed to do this a lot, but we won many of our hames by a one goal margin.

"I think that by adding the creativity of Florian [Wirtz], by adding the base of Jeremie Frimpong, Hugo Ekitike, and Milos Kerkez that can give us some weapons in games like that as well. If you don't evolve, if you keep doing the same thing, people do find the answers to your playing style and that already happened a bit in the second half of the season."

As such, while last season's tactical plan was all about adding more control in possession, rather than constantly playing in transition, this season will be about utilising more dynamic technicians.

Just through watching the pre-season games, you get a sense that there is substantially more creativity in the side and the attack is far more unpredictable because of how free the players are.

No one's position is set in stone, with Wirtz and Ekitike constantly moving around the pitch to create different options, leaving opposition sides feeling lost in defence. It's a little bit like PSG last season.

Later in the interview, Slot spoke about how you have to evolve tactically in order to continue succeeding at the top level, noting that you need to be able to excel in every aspect of the game.

He added: "We've been a threat over all these years under Jurgen [Klopp] and even last season in transition as well and I think now if you want to learn the league, you have to be good at everything - in transitions, in attack, in set plays, defensively really strong and using high press and in a low block, that is what this league does to every team that wants to win.

"You have to be at your best in every part of football and that's that we are trying. We are working really hard on that, to become as best as possible. I don't know where I read it somewhere, but it was something like 'we try to reach perfection, but we reach excellence along the way'."

There's a maturity to this Liverpool team now. It's a little bit like watching an XI of galacticos, not just because they cost a lot, but because of the sheer amount of talent that Slot can utilise tactically.

Just last season, it felt like Mohamed Salah was our primary weapon. Now we have a team of them.