Kenak: Slot needs to be equipped with a "think tank" and the "bald coach" has the opportunity to dominate the Premier League

Originally, Liverpool's preseason was not very popular, and his opponent Preston was the champion team, but this game was the first game after Jota's death. Everyone wants to know how Slott deals with the crisis and the mentality of Anfield players, so the outside world pays great attention to this game. Arsenal's team reporter Kenak believes that Liverpool will not be in a slump because of Jota's unexpected death. On the contrary, the club may turn grief into strength. At least from the perspective of friendly matches and other situations, Slott's strategy to deal with psychological crises is not bad. He began to turn grief into strength, and the whole team fought for Jota. Of course, Anfield still has a lot to be improved, and many players still need to spend a lot of energy to get out of their sadness, so Kenak said: Slot needs to be equipped with a "think tank".

Slott has won the Barclays Cup, which is very precious to Anfield, and everyone will naturally look forward to Slott's future in this team based on Klopp's standards. Kenak mentioned that the coaching staff of the Zha era had a "think tank", which is the famous scouting system. They introduced core players of the championship era such as Salah and Mane at a very small cost. At the beginning, the "think tank" had not many personnel and the structure was not complicated, but it played a very excellent role. Now Slot also needs to be equipped with a similar "think tank". After all, at the level of signing, relatively systematic data analysis is needed. With Chelsea winning the Club World Cup, Maresca began to enter the ranks of first-line coaches because he also had the European Cup championship. Kenak also talked about an interesting fact: "Bald coach" has the opportunity to dominate the Premier League.

The Dutch bald man Slott has brought Liverpool back to the throne of league championship. Maresca, the Italian bald man, led Chelsea to perform well in the knockout match. Moreover, Kenak predicts that the Blues have a chance to become the Champions League disruptor in the new season, after all, Maresca's tactical model is suitable for the knockout stage. Everyone cannot forget Guardiola, the "bare coach". Although Manchester City experienced a trough last season and De Bruyne left the team, the foundation of the Blue Moon Army is still there. As long as the management invests, Guardiola can regain its momentum. In addition, Nottingham Forest's head coach Boss is also a "bald coach". Such coaches do have the chance to dominate the Premier League in the new season. As the smoke of the new Premier League season gradually rises, the rise of the "Bald Coach League" is quietly rewriting the league pattern.

It is worth mentioning that Slott continued the high-pressure gene left by Klopp at Anfield. He injected Dutch-style full offense and defense into the blood of the Red Army. The defense line led by Van Dijk is now more like a precision offside trap manufacturing machine. Maresca drew an amazing diamond-shaped cutting on the tactical board of Stamford Bridge, and Enzo Fernandez seemed to recreate the metronome style of Jorginho back then. Guardiola's Manchester City laboratory is brewing new changes. After Gundogan left the team, the experiment of Foden being transformed into "Fake Nine" has begun to show results. In the underground tactical room of the Etihad Stadium, staff found that Guardiola repeatedly watched the 2004 Champions League video of Porto - a tactical master who seemed to draw nourishment from Mourinho's anti-anti-philosophy.

In Kenak's view, Slot needs to be equipped with a "think tank". Combined with the unexpected events that occurred in Liverpool during the summer offseason, the "think tank" not only needs to analyze the data of new players, but also helps the players in the team adjust their mentality and deal with a series of chain reactions caused by Jota's unexpected death. Slott faces more than tactical innovation. Kenak specifically emphasized that the core value of the "think tank" lies in its multi-dimensional decision-making support capabilities - from precise sniping in the transfer market to invisible guidance of locker room emotions. After the Jota incident, the team needs to operate like precision instruments: data analysts need to quantify fluctuations in player training, sports psychologists need to build "post-traumatic growth" models, and even medical teams need to reassess the impact of sadness on muscle recovery.

The author (an old colleague talks about it) believes that the "think tank" of modern football has long surpassed the scope of traditional scouts. Klopp's team signed Robertson for 8 million pounds was regarded as a stroke of magic, and now the same price may only be enough to purchase annual data services for satellite tracking systems. What Slot needs is a composite team that can integrate AI algorithms and humanistic insights—for example, when predicting the adaptation curve of South American rookies through machine learning, synchronously assessing the potential impact of their family stability on career development. Anfield senior executives may need to learn from the "Scene Room" model of the F1 fleet. As Red Bull Racing adjusts racing settings in real time during the race, their strategy group simultaneously monitors hundreds of data on drivers' heart rate and tire wear. Liverpool's "think tank" also requires this kind of immediate response: two hours before the winter window, it is necessary to calculate the oppression success rate of a midfield target, and to evaluate whether he can maintain his fighting spirit during the cold winter night in Merseyside.