{"id":516292,"date":"2026-08-12T03:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=516292"},"modified":"2026-08-12T03:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:55:44","slug":"slot-declines-netherlands-job-to-focus-on-club-football","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/slot-declines-netherlands-job-to-focus-on-club-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Slot declines Netherlands job to focus on club football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-Liverpool head coach, Arne Slot, has revealed he held discussions over the vacant Netherlands position but withdrew because he wants to continue his career in club football.<\/p>\n<p>Slot led Liverpool to their 20<sup>th<\/sup> Premier League trophy in his debut campaign, but finished 5<sup>th<\/sup> in the league and was dismissed a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Koeman stepped down from his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> spell as Netherlands boss after they were eliminated by Morocco in the World Cup in the 1\/16 finals after a shootout.<\/p>\n<p>Arne denied rumors that he had withdrawn from talks with the KNVB (Royal Dutch Football Association) after failing to reach an agreement over his deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reports that I had withdrawn from the talks about becoming the next Netherlands manager after talks about salary and deal duration are not true,\u201d Slot revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never discussed that because I want to continue my career in club football. That\u2019s why I ended the talks before talking about potential salary and contract duration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slot added that someday he would be happy to be the head coach of his country, but now his focus is to find a job in club football.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Arne Slot held talks over the vacant Netherlands job&#8230; but pulled out as he wants to manage a club next \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1\u274c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Z79yAL4IR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2Z79yAL4IR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCMOTD\/status\/2087446791138799951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">August 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-Liverpool head coach, Arne Slot, has revealed he held discussions over the vacant Netherlands position but withdrew because he wants to continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":516293,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19580,16984],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[18423,14194],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Arne talked about the Dutch national team talks.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/516292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/516292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516294,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/516292\/revisions\/516294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516292"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=516292"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=516292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}