Arne Slot’s first assistant coach remembers feeling an immediate kinship with both city and club when he arrived along with the head coach, his long-term professional partner, last summer.
“What I liked the most from the first days was that all the people were friendly. I saw the cooperation between the people, the cohesion between the people, here,” Hulshoff tells Liverpoolfc.com.
“That is the first thing that I felt immediately: that everybody wants to help you and make you comfortable so that you are at home here.
“Even in pre-season, we hadn’t been here long but we felt so comfortable. We didn’t have to worry about anything, we could just focus totally on our jobs and if you feel at home you can perform at your best.
“The way the people are here is a bit the same as in the part of Holland where I come from, which is a place in the north called Friesland: they have a lot of respect, they always talk to you and they give you a good feeling.
“If you compare Friesland people with Scousers, we also have our own language that is different to the ‘normal’ language of the country!
“And if you look at the people, they are hard workers who only ask three things from you: you have to work hard, you have to do your best and you have to act normal. We had the same at Feyenoord because the people in Rotterdam are also like this.
“I think this is maybe why Liverpool fits, until now, like a jacket.”
