West Ham will appreciate exactly what Arne Slot is cooking up at Liverpool with his summer transfer business and it does not bode well for everyone else.
When Tim Steidten was brought in by West Ham as the club’s technical director he was being heavily linked with Liverpool too.
One look at Steidten’s body of work at Bayer Leverkusen and it was easy to see why.
The promise of more autonomy and time to build the club up in his own image saw the Hammers beat Liverpool to Steidten.
The German stated he saw West Ham as a five-year project.
Hammers fans were hugely excited as Steidten started building given some of the brilliant acquisitions he had made during his time on recruitment at Bayer Leverkusen.
Alongside Simon Rolfe,…