Arne Slot: “If you asked my father now, he would say, ‘He does everything different as a manager to how he was as a player.’
“I always make the same joke. I always say: I was not so fast, some people called me slow, and that helped me maybe a bit with game insight.”
“I needed the team to get to a certain level because, individually, I couldn’t go around three players. I always needed my team-mates where I could play them my passes.”
“I had to think a lot about the game; maybe that’s what helps me now. At a certain age, I felt like, ‘OK, if a team-mate of mine plays this ball, it normally leads to losing the ball, and if we play a different ball, it leads to success’.”
“At the end of my career, that became more and more clear to me.”
“I was lucky enough that then the Barcelona team started playing, and I saw similar patterns, not in terms of how we play it, but more: OK, this ball which we sometimes play – and Barcelona constantly plays – leads to success. And that’s helped me create my own philosophy about football.”