If Arne Slot takes over for Jürgen Klopp as Liverpool’s next manager, six players stand to gain.

Arne Slot is now a strong candidate for Liverpool’s job as Jürgen Klopp’s replacement. The Dutchman and the Reds have a similar, well-defined style.

Most Liverpool supporters won’t be very familiar with Arne Slot. However, the 45-year-old is a strong candidate to succeed Jürgen Klopp at Anfield.

Slot has pleased the Liverpool hierarchy with his attack-minded, high-intensity playing style and his history of making the most of his resources.

Additionally, he has an amazing record in the Eredivisie, where he won the championship the previous season.

But in the event that Slot succeeds, how might Liverpool appear? The Reds team is well-suited to the current system he employs, whose tenets are largely in line with those that Klopp and his staff have ingrained.

The 4-2-3-1 formation that Feyenoord primarily use is slightly different from Liverpool’s setup.

Where Slot often utilises a double pivot, Klopp uses one number six (Wataru Endō or Alexis Mac Allister), however the Dutchman may be able to adjust.

If he chooses to execute a double pivot, who stands to gain the most? That’s a role that Mac Allister has played for Brighton as well as Argentina, and it might work for Ryan Gravenberch.

He has played for Ajax and Bayern Munich in like manner before.

Maybe Endō would be better off with someone by his side when the Japanese play there.

Although he has had good energy this season, as he ages, he may require more assistance.

In a 4-2-3-1 formation, Harvey Elliott, Curtis Jones, and Dominik Szoboszlai might all be comfortable playing wide (or as a number 10).

However, considering the attacking choices Slot would have to choose from, those three would be in doubt. Luis Díaz and Mohamed Salah would need to play wide.

In the end, one of Slot’s selling points would be that his system wouldn’t significantly alter Liverpool’s current style of play.

He could rearrange that area of the field as part of his aggressive strategy to accommodate additional midfield alternatives, given the abundance of possibilities available to the Reds.

Alternately, Slot may start four of the five senior forwards in an ultra-aggressive configuration of his choice.

Without making much changes to what he already does in the Netherlands, both alternatives would be available.

Questions would remain over how specific positions have changed since the Klopp era.

Above all, what would Slot want done with Trent Alexander-Arnold? He could easily be used as a pivot in the midfield, but he now plays that role primarily from full-back, providing Liverpool another option when it comes to possession.

However, in general, the offensive ideas and full-scale counter-offensive would persist. Instead of a total setup redesign, just the details of each function would need to be ironed out; this would be far less disruptive than, say, switching to a back three.