SCAR WARS? NOT NOW!

Slot: This Liverpool side is a NEW team that isn't damaged by past failures in the rivalry with City

-  SIMON MULLOCK

ARNE SLOT insists Liverpool are now a different beast to the Jurgen Klopp team that kept coming second to Pep Guardiola's Manchester City.

The battle between Klopp and Guardiola was hailed as one of the greatest rivalries of the Premier League era but the City boss took six titles back to the Etihad while the German had to settle for just one.

Slot resisted the temptation to make any new signings when he became Reds' manager last summer, but he has fine-tuned the squad he took over to storm clear at the top of the table while four-in-a-row champions City have gone into reverse.

Now, ahead of Liverpool's bid to take three points from the Etihad for the first time in nine years, Kop boss Slot has suggested that he inherited enough players who were in no way scarred by past experiences of finishing behind City.

Slot said: "This is quite a new team, to be honest.