**Arne Slot has broken his silence on Aaron Briggs’ departure from Liverpool.**
Briggs [left his role as set piece coach after just 18 months](https://www.clickliverpool.com/sport/liverpool-fc/62590-set-piece-coach-aaron-briggs-leaves-liverpool/) in the Anfield backroom staff, having initially joined as an individual development coach.
The Reds took the decision to part company with the one-time Manchester City analyst after they conceded a record-setting 12 goals from set pieces.
No team had shipped as many set-piece goals excluding penalties in Europe’s top five leagues by the time Briggs found himself deposed.
But Slot has now paid a glowing tribute to the 38-year-old and backed him to be afforded fresh opportunities once the dust settles on his time at Liverpool.
He said: “First of all I want to thank him for the one-and-a-half years we worked together.
“Because he’s been a part – and a big part – of us winning the league last season.
“He’s been a big help to me. He’s a very good human being, a very promising, young English coach.
“But as things sometimes happen, in January or in June, both go either way and that is what happened over here as well.
“He will definitely find a new challenge for himself, because he’s done a good job with us.
“He’s a very good human being, a very promising, young English coach, so he deserves to get multiple chances again.”
The reigning Premier League champions had publicly advertised the vacancy for a set piece coach prior to Briggs’ swift promotion in September 2024.
He took the reins after Slot’s bid to draft in his former Feyenoord lieutenant Etienne Reijnen was understood to have been stymied by work permit issues.
However the Liverpool head coach, now overseeing set piece duties with his existing backroom staff, remained tight-lipped on Briggs’ potential successor.
“I think it would be a surprise to you, if I never talk about players we bring in, that I would start talking to you about names in terms of coaches we could bring in,” added Slot.
“Of course we are looking at the situation, what is best for us now.
“But as long as I have no news about that, I cannot share anything about it.”