Arne Slot has taken to the Premier League like a duck to water. Easy, this English football lark, he might think.
He rocked up to what the traditionalists like to call 'our league' and set it alight, losing just once in his first 23 league games and three times overall – though one was a dead-rubber Champions League match and one a first-leg cup tie which they can still win this week.
But the one thing Slot has found tough to deal with, according to those who know him well, is the relentlessness.