‘Matter of days’: Liverpool fans told in-progress deal is right around the corner

Arne Slot’s impending arrival at Liverpool Football Club is ‘only a matter of days’ away according to the 45-year-old.

Jurgen Klopp is set to manage his penultimate game in charge of the Reds next Monday when his team take on Unai Emery’s high-flying Aston Villa.

“I say almost every time: it will only be a matter of days. That’s what I expect now,” the Dutchman told reporters in his pre-match press conference (via 1908.NL).

The former AZ Alkmaar boss went on to add: “I’m not really someone who looks very far ahead, who would already think: ‘In a week and a half from now, it might just be that I won’t be driving this way anymore’.

“But when you are in De Kuip last Sunday and the match goes as it goes, then you have that moment of realisation. That feeling may increase a little next week, because it could easily be the last week.”

Slot’s Feyenoord have enjoyed a relatively successful campaign in 2023/24, lifting the KNVB trophy and securing second-place in the Eredivisie.