It has been a difficult season. for Liverpool and Arne Slot. The club sit in fifth place, and has all but secured a Champions League spot for next season.
Slot, who led Liverpool to the Premier League title last season, has come under pressure during his second campaign, with the Reds set to end the season without a trophy and well off the pace set by Arsenal and Manchester City.
Spending over 200 million pounds on signings in the summer that have included Alexander Isak, Jeremie Frimpong, Hugo Ektike, Florian Wirtz, and Milos Kerekz, Liverpool were once again favourites to win the league.
Yet, with a public fallout with Mohamed Salah and results where Liverpool were conceding late and having no real style of play, the Liverpool fans started to turn on Slot.
Slot had done everything right last season; he didn’t massively overhaul the squad, still played a Jurgen Klopp-style of football with his own tweaks and led Liverpool to a dominant title victory.
This year, Slot’s own style of play has angered many fans for being too slow, and not the “Liverpool way”, with new signings not hitting the high expectations fans had of them.
However, even with all of that, Liverpool looks like securing European football, with their form picking up since returning from the international break, and Chelsea’s form slipping looks like to have kept Slot in a job.
What looked to be another season of title contention has turned into a transitional season, with Salah and Andy Robertson departing the club at the end of the season, with Alisson Becker, Joe Gomez and more rumoured to be exiting the club at the end of the season as well.
Slot has one more season left on his current contract to turn it around, but if he does not, the man who guided Liverpool to their 20th league title might not be their manager anymore.
