Arne Slot insists Liverpool can cope with being hunted as Reds hope their £250m summer spending spree will help defend Premier League title
Liverpool have revamped their squad since winning their 20th league title, headed by the British record £116m move for Florian Wirtz, along with Hugo Ekitike, Milos Kerkez, Jeremie Frimpong and Giorgio Mamardashvili.
Another forward – potentially Newcastle's Alexsander Isak – could be brought in, while Liverpool retain an interest in Marc Guehi, who will be in Crystal Palace 's side at Wembley in the Community Shield though the clubs are some distance apart in their valuations of the England international.
Bookmakers have Liverpool as short-priced favourites to win the Premier League and Slot is comfortable with the level of expectation about his side, who he hopes will also go close in the Champions League, too.
Slot said: 'It's completely normal that we are one of the favourites, because we won it last season. And we brought in good players, like all the other ones did, by the way. This is the Premier League, this is what makes this league so nice.
I think there's only been one exception in the last two, three, four, five, six years, and that's been Liverpool last season. Because every team in the Premier League, Sunderland, is spending money as if they... They have a lot of money, of course, because they're promoted.
'If we are only favourites because we've spent a bit, I would see that as weird, because we've lost a lot of players as well. But the ambitions haven't changed – the ambition of this club is always to compete for every trophy.'
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