While you were busy watching FIFA undermine the sporting integrity of the World Cup, former Liverpool head coach Arne Slot was busy being shortlisted to become the next Netherlands national team manager. He might even be the favourite to take over following the sacking of Ronald Koeman.
At least that’s the story from Sky German’s Florian Plettenberg, who Liverpool fans may remember as the guy who gets basically everything wrong if it involves Liverpool (see: the Florian Wirtz and Ryan Gravenberch
transfer sagas) but hey, maybe he knows more about the Dutch NT than he does about the Reds.
Beyond question marks about the source, though, it’s a move plenty of people have suggested could be on the cards ever since Koeman and the Dutch got dumped out by Morocco, though most reliable reports have suggested that they aren’t in any particular hurry to name a replacement.
While the Dutch might be content to pause and consider—the World Cup is still going on amongst FIFA’s attempts to do corruption, after all—it won’t stop the rumour mongers, and they have Louis van Gaal as the main alternative to Slot while Ruud van Nistelrooy and Robin van Persie are also said to be options.
