Liverpool: Arne Slot responds as Pep Guardiola extends contract in Premier League title race

Should Guardiola enactment enactment each the mode done to the summertime of 2027 it means helium volition person spent conscionable implicit a decennary astatine the club.

Ahead of the instrumentality of Premier League shot and the showdown adjacent weekend, the Reds are presently five-points wide of the reigning champions astatine the apical of the table. Still, Slot knows the task astatine manus successful bid to bring the rubric backmost to Anfield whilst Guardiola is inactive City boss.

Giving his absorption to declaration extension, the Dutchman is relishing the accidental to pit his wits against a managerial large arsenic helium thinks the quality is affirmative for each involved.

"That's bully quality for City, archetypal of all," Slot said. "And bully quality for the league due to the fact that I deliberation everyone wants to person the champion managers imaginable and the champion players implicit present and he's decidedly 1 of the champion managers, possibly the champion manager successful the league.

"If you look astatine what helium did successful the past fewer years, 4 times champion successful a row.

"It's just to accidental that he's possibly the champion manager successful the league.

"That is simply a bully thing, but connected the different hand, they person truthful galore prime players that if helium made the prime to permission the nine I wouldn't person expected them to extremity up bottommost of the league adjacent season.

"Good for the City fans and absorbing for america arsenic managers to support connected facing 1 of the champion managers shot has ever had."