Arne Slot is wearing shorts and a club-branded track top, a whistle strapped around his neck like a PE teacher, repeatedly barking the one word that sums up this season for Liverpool.
Patience.
The setting is Philadelphia, a searing hot day on leg two of the Reds’ summer tour of the United States in the city of Smokin’ Joe Frazier where Slot and Co plotted how to land the ultimate knockout blow on Manchester City’s monopoly on the Premier League.
Slot was patrolling the pitch, home of the Eagles NFL team, shouting: ‘Patience, boys, patience!