Thomas Frank: Brentford Boss praises Sepp van den Berg and Arne Slot

Brentford manager Thomas Frank was full of praises for his latest signing Sepp van den Berg, aswell as Liverpool boss Arne Slot, with the sides set to meet on Sunday.

In his press conference on Friday, Frank discussed his Dutch defensive addition ahead of the 22- year- olds return to Anfield in opposition colours.

Speaking to the media, Frank declared his admiration for Van den Berg, claiming “I think he is a great player with an even bigger potential. A good age for a young centre-back that played quite a significant amount of games in the Championship and in the Bundesliga.”

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Discussing the rumours that ex Kopite Xabi Alonso was interested in bringing Van den Berg to Bayer Leverkusen after he impressed against the German champions, Frank stated “I heard the rumours about Leverkusen, if that is true, then I think it is a statement that players want to come to us over other top clubs.”

Van den Berg is set to make his debut for Brentford at Anfield, having officially completed his move to West London yesterday for the sum of £25 million.

The Dutch defender departed after five years at Liverpool, during which he struggled to secure regular game time.

Sepp van den Berg has completed a permanent transfer to Brentford.

Everyone at LFC thanks Sepp for his contributions at the club and wishes him the best of luck in his future career 👊

— Liverpool FC (@LFC) August 22, 2024

The Bees have secured two members of Liverpool’s squad this month, completing the signing of Fábio Carvalho for a fee of £27.5 million.

Frank's admiration for Slot

Whilst Carvalho and Van den Berg were rendered surplus to requirements by Slot, Frank was still full of praise for the Dutch manager.

“We are going into a fantastic team, against a good manager. I followed his work with Feyenoord, of course seen his pre-season games, the Ipswich game and it looks good.”

“He tried to add layers to the fantastic job [Jurgen] Klopp did. He inherited a fantastic team. The team that started against Ipswich is a fantastic team.”

50 - Liverpool had 50 touches in the opposition box against Ipswich on Saturday in Arne Slot's first game in charge, the most in a manager's first ever game in the Premier League that Opta has on record since 2008-09. Intent. pic.twitter.com/Gn7pfgQJ4f

— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) August 20, 2024

“At home, they are so frightening, I expect them to be an unbelievably difficult task. We know we have the capacity to go anywhere and try to win it. We will go there and try everything we can to win it.”

Liverpool’s clash with Brentford kicks off at 16:30 UK time