Arne Slot ‘100 per cent convinced’ Liverpool will have different look next term

Head coach Arne Slot is “100 per cent convinced” Liverpool will be a different team next season after a 1-1 draw at home to Chelsea was greeted with boos.

The Dutchman became the personal target for the crowd when his substitution of 17-year-old winger Rio Ngumoha for the fit-again British record signing Alexander Isak in the 67th minute received the loudest jeers of the afternoon.

Slot revealed afterwards the teenager was suffering from cramp but said he knew before the board went up what the reaction would be.

Another disappointing performance, having taken a sixth-minute lead through Ryan Gravenberch, left Slot facing more criticism from supporters but he retains the backing of the Anfield hierarchy and pledged to win back fans next season.

“Yeah, I do. Not this season, by the way,” said the Dutchman when asked whether he could turn the crowd around.

“This season they will have their opinion and it will not change but if we can have the summer that we are planning to have I am 100 per cent convinced we will be a different team next season than we are now.

“Different in terms of results, different in how things look.

“It is really clear what we are lacking this season and we are trying. One of the things we are lacking is players that are fit.

“The players we have available now, like last week (in defeat at Manchester United), showed in the second half they want to give everything and try to push but it was not enough last week or this week to find that goal which we maybe deserved.

“We’ve also seen a lot of times this season that being the dominant team does not lead to chance after chance after chance.”

On Ngumoha, Slot added: “Not injured, he had cramps before then and he went to the floor and I had contact with