Andy Hunter of the Guardian witnessed Alonso get blown away by his former club, describing Slot as “remarkable”: “The finest compliment to Xabi Alonso, Arne Slot wrote in his programme notes, ‘is to be the best Liverpool that we can possibly be with no quarter asked and no quarter given.’

Steven Gerrard will have been watching Liverpool's victory over his former teammate somewhere in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday night. We know because the club's legendary captain has admitted he often

There was widely regarded to be only one man for the job when Jurgen Klopp announced his departure from Liverpool in January and on that day none outside the club were suggesting that it might be a Dutch coach from the little German border town of Bergentheim.