Arne Slot CONFIRMS sensational Liverpool change could happen | OneFootball

Arne Slot has confirmed the potential for a major change at Liverpool. It's exactly what we wanted to hear.

It was a summer of change at Liverpool. The second year in a row that's been the case, in fact.

Liverpool spent over £400m on new players as they reshaped a title-winning squad, selling stars for £200m in order to help fund it. Arne Slot may have won the Premier League in his debut campaign but now his group looks significantly different.

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New full-backs are in, with Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong replacing Kostas Tsimikas and Trent Alexander-Arnold. There's a new group of goalkeepers, too.

Florian Wirtz is the new playmaker in the middle, while the Dutchman now has two new strikers to pick from. Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitiké have arrived for enormous amounts - a British transfer record in the former's case - but there's a problem with that.

Liverpool typically play with one centre-forward, making it difficult to get both into the side. It appears, though, that Slot is open to a very exciting plan.

Arne Slot on the 4-4-2

We wrote earlier in the week that Liverpool moving to a 4-4-2 (or a 4-2-4 or however you want to phrase it) feels inevitable with these two strikers in the squad. Both Isak and Ekitiké are built to drift around the pitch, occupying different areas and creating space for others.

That lends itself to a strike partnership as much as it does a 4-3-3. Pairing them up top together makes sense at some point. Not necessarily as the regular go-to.

Slot was asked on Friday ahead of the Everton clash whether this is something he's got in mind. He admits he is considering it.

"I consider, of course, because you consider many things and it depends always on how well they are doing, so if both of them are in the best form of their life you would even consider it more, playing them together," said Slot.

"But it’s also clear that we have a certain structure, which has mainly been 4-3-3 [and] playing with three midfielders, but the amount of times we have, at the end phase of the game, played with two nines, that has happened quite a lot as well."

It's certainly far more likely to happen for a short period when chasing a game. Last weekend against Burnley, for example, was a perfect opportunity if Isak had been in the squad.

The Merseyside derby against Everton also feels like a potential chance to see the pair of them together, though not from the start. It'll take a little bit longer before Slot is willing to shake-up the winning formation, after all.

But the 4-4-2 is coming and we can't wait to see it. How many defences could possibly handle Isak and Ekitiké as a pair? It's simply about getting everything correct around them because that duo has it all.

And as long as we're patient, we'll get to see it in action.