Liverpool fullback Trent Alexander-Arnold is confident they'll be a title challenger next season without Jurgen Klopp.
Manager Klopp will step down at the end of the season.
"I'd probably say I'm sat on the fence with regards to my feelings on a new manager coming in," Alexander-Arnold told The Overlap. "It'll be a completely different situation and it's going to be weird to then turn up to pre-season, having to adopt a new playing style.
"Whereas now, without anything getting said to me, I know all the manager wants me to play, and I turn up to pre-season, I know to jump there, I'm to press there, but for this summer, my next preseason will have a completely different message.
It's going to be strange, but I think I like the idea of a new challenge for the team, the players and the club. The way I look at it is of course the manager is going to come in and change the way we play and it'll be a different type of culture and new messages.
"But as players, the mentality and eagerness to win - not the pressure, but the internal pressure on ourselves and the demands to win things and be in a title race next season no matter who the manager is - that's what we expect from ourselves.
"Of course results might not go our way but as long as that mentality is there - not that it doesn't matter who the manager is, but as long as the dressing room has got that desire that we're going to win, we're trying to win things, it's not a 'transition season', the manager comes and within his style of play is that winning mentality - that's how the transition needs to happen."
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