Arne Slot must avoid signing too many Dutch players when he becomes the manager of English side, Liverpool, according to Wesley Sneijder.
Slot is set to replace Jurgen Klopp in the Anfield hot seat at the end of the season. It is reported that the Reds and Feyenoord have agreed a £9.1 million compensation package.
The 45-year-old won the Eredivisie with the Rotterdam-based club last season along with the KNVB Cup this term. He’ll inherit a Liverpool side set to finish third in the Premier League table and there will be hopes their title challenge can go all the way next term.
Slot has likely been conducted his due diligence on the Reds’ current squad and will want to make additions in coming transfer windows. Head coaches can often sway towards players they already know and trust – such as Klopp signing Joel Matip, Ragnar Klavan and Loris Karius from the Bundesliga in the summer of 2016.
However, Sneijder has warned against Slot doing the same, with Liverpool already having Holland internationals Virgil van Dijk, Cody Gakpo and Ryan Gravenberch in the dressing room. The former midfielder admitted he experienced similar when representing Real Madrid and it backfired.
Via fcupdate.nl, (h/t Sport Witness), Sneijder said: “I would be careful with that, with bringing in too many Dutch people. I experienced that in Madrid. When I came, only Ruud van Nistelrooy, Royston Drenthe and Arjen Robben were there. And the following year, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Rafael van der Vaart arrived.
“If the four of us play football somewhere, we’re not going to talk Spanish to each other, you keep talking in your mother tongue anyway. You shouldn’t start attracting too many Dutch people to you.”
