
Liverpool’s flying start to the season under Arne Slot has piled on the pressure on Erik ten Hag who is fighting for his job at Manchester United.
The Reds are sitting pretty at the top of the Premier League table with 18 points in seven games at the start of the campaign.
Slot has wasted little time in having a major impact on the Merseyside giants and Liverpool have emerged as firm title contenders under the former Feyenoord coach.
His success at Liverpool has further increased the pressure on Ten Hag whose Manchester United side are languishing in 14th in the Premier League table in his third season at Old Trafford.
The Dutchman is facing the prospect of getting sacked with Manchester United believed to be working on an approach to former Chelsea and Bayern Munich boss Thomas Tuchel.
Ten Hag is getting questioned for struggling to get his Manchester United going in his third year while Slot has come in and has had an instant impact on Merseyside.
Eredivisie veteran Mark Diemers played under both the manager and he has a clear preference for one of them.
Arne Slot is better at a human level than Ten Hag
Slot clearly has managed to build a relationship with the Liverpool players while Ten Hag has had issues with several Manchester United stars since 2022.
Diemers insisted that the Manchester United manager is tactically brilliant and his training sessions were great but stressed Slot is better when it comes to connecting with players at a human level.
He is hopeful that given Ten Hag’s success at big clubs, he must have improved but conceded that he prefers Slot’s personal touch”, Diemers told ESPN Netherlands via the Mirror.
“I choose Arne Slot. I can only talk from my time. I found Ten Hag insanely good tactically, so were his training sessions.
“But I just didn’t think he was very good, at that time, on a human level. But that was already six or seven years ago. I thought Slot was a lot stronger on a human level.
“Look at what kind of clubs [Ten Hag] has worked at, so he must also have qualities on a human level. I still have contact with him via WhatsApp. Then he also comes across as very friendly to me.
“He will undoubtedly have grown on a human level as well.”
