Arne Slot has had his first weeks as trainer of Feyenoord. In an extensive interview with the General Newspaper tells the 42-year-old coach about the first impression of his new club. “I will experience how big this club really is when we lose one day and everyone says and writes that it was nothing at all”, Slot says.
Slot is confronted with the fact that after a 0-4 lead against Sparta Rotterdam was handed over at AZ, they said: ‘Too bad Arne, on to the next game’. “Well, they definitely didn’t say that in Alkmaar. The management and myself set the bar very high there. At Feyenoord, the Legion and the media are added to that,” Slot responds. The new coach does not want to use the word ‘patience’, but points out that Feyenoord finished fifth last season with ‘a considerable gap with the rest’.
“We now want to do it a certain way. It would be nice if things worked out right away. For the audience and for the players. They need confirmation that it works,” says the new Feyenoord trainer. He has the impression that the players enjoyed the first weeks and is not afraid that the atmosphere will change when it is clear later who will and will not play. “I am not afraid that those players will be difficult. Experience shows that every player will have his value in a season.”
Slot is asked whether he can make Feyenoord champion. “If you had asked me a few years ago whether I could have become champion with AZ, I would have initially thought: 27 points behind Ajax and PSV, that is very difficult to ever close. A year later, when the season was interrupted, AZ was joint leader. The starting point is now also that we are coming from a significant backlog. AZ then had a great class that broke through. Feyenoord also has its own talent that has broken through, but mostly players who play behind the ball. At AZ it was Boadu, Stengs and also Koopmeiners. Guys who scored goals.”
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