In an interview room framed by a reminder of Liverpool s six European Cups at their training ground, a senior member of staff shot in ahead of a chat with Arne Slot to offer a neat summary of the new head coach.

The 45-year-old, off to an unblemished start, co-signed those words by dropping the shoulder on any emotive approach heading into the Super Sunday showdown with Manchester United, live on Sky Sports.

Slot believes poetry happens on the pitch, not in front of the press. He wants supporters to be seduced by Liverpool s football, not his soundbites.

It’s been a good start, but I said it after the game against Brentford that we have to understand the competition we faced. Brentford and Ipswich are two really good teams so I want to respect them for what they did, and we had a really hard time playing them.

But I’m not expecting them to be in the top six, so we have still a lot to prove. And if you talk about control, going to Old Trafford is one of the difficult places to have control. And even if you have control, they can still counter-attack you in every moment.

So it’s going to be a big test for us if we can manage to do similar things we did against Ipswich and Brentford on Sunday. It’s been a good start but with the upcoming fixtures we will see where we exactly are, and hopefully we can show the same and if not, we’re going to work really hard to manage doing the same in other big fixtures.

Mohamed Salah talks about his love for football and playing for Liverpool, facing Manchester United and his future.

Yeah. But I think the main reason for this is that there are much more similarities between the former style and the current style than there are differences.

And it would be completely normal that there are new things. Even when if Jurgen [Klopp] would ve stayed, he would ve implemented new things. So football is evolving or is changing. You always try to find new ways of surprising the opponent.