CONFIRMED: Arne Slot announces Liverpool move

Arne Slot has announced he's taking the Liverpool job.

Feyenoord have also confirmed their coach's departure after Slot's admission on Friday afternoon.

Slot said ahead of Sunday's finale against Excelsior: "I can confirm that I will become the trainer there next year."

Feyenoord have also released a video announcing Slot's exit at the end of the season.

Slot also said: "The fact that you know that it is coming, that helps to do it in a nice way, both from the club to me and from me to the people I have worked with," said Slot. If you leave in the middle of the season, then perhaps the personal issue will come out of nowhere.

People may still think that the process works like this, that first the clubs are informed and then the coaches or players are informed, but the process does not work like that. As an individual you already know. Marino Pusic of course knew for a longer time that Shakhtar were interested than the moment he told me or that the club knew. The same goes for me with Liverpool.

So yes, if you abruptly leave during the season, it is a different farewell than the end of the season, when everyone has seen it coming for weeks."