Liverpool star's comments confuse Arne Slot during embarrassing moment

Arne Slot's most bizarre moment yet was being confused by his star player's comments.

Things are unravelling in a really nasty way for the Dutchman. To think that around one year ago, Liverpool were celebrating one of the greatest days in the club's history.

How dark and how starkly negative everything has been since then has been difficult to witness and bare for fans.

Slot's hold on his job is rapidly fading, he's probably reached a point of no return at this stage.

A 4–0 defeat to Manchester City on Saturday was yet a dire indictment of an awful season. Liverpool have now lost 15 matches, They've lost more games in their last 26 Premier League (10) matches than they have won (9).

After a two-week build-up that had promised a reaction to Liverpool's defeat to Brighton, the City result felt far more significant than another setback, it was the sign that the end if near for Slot.

Conceding four goals in a game of this importance, and doing so in such a short space of time against a City side that was good but far from exceptional, exposed more than just defensive weaknesses. It highlighted Liverpool's lack of identity, resilience, and mental strength - qualities that have traditionally been at the heart of the Reds at their peak.

It's becoming far harder to support the man, even after he helped Liverpool win the Premier League.

Slot is becoming arrogant and he refuses to accept and acknowledge reality. He's clearly lost touch of what Liverpool fans appreciate.

These supporters want someone humble, who represents what they represent - the working class. The fact that the Dutchman came back looking tanned from a two-week international break, is unlikely to have gone down well.

But what will have gone down even worse is how unprepared and seemingly disorganised Liverpool were. The Reds appeared to have turned up to the Etihad with zero game plan and looked like they had no coherent tactical approach.

After the game, Dominik Szoboszlai was fairly critical of his teammates.

“When what you do doesn’t have a result, it doesn’t make much sense,” Szoboszlai told Hungarian TV channel Spiler 1.

“We had chances, but we missed them, and then we conceded a banal penalty. We lost 4-0, we simply can’t concede that many goals.

“It’s hard to win here. When you’re one goal behind, you still believe in winning, but it’s our fault that we conceded another one in the last minute before the break. At 2-0, our chances had significantly deteriorated. At the same time, we came out of the locker room wanting to show that we were capable of turning the game around. We conceded a third goal, and there was no going back from there.

"We didn't have the right fighting spirit in the team, and our mentality wasn't the right one. Honestly, none of us were as present in our minds as we would have liked. We're in a rollercoaster, but we have to stick together. We have another chance on Wednesday (against PSG ), but we have to get it into our heads that this is not how we want to end the season."

The last part about Liverpool's mentality is massively concerning and it should raise alarm bells for Slot. It also sheds light on what is really going on behind the scenes and how the dressing room is feeling.

Slot was confused when asked about Szoboszlai's comments in the press conference in what was a bizarre and embarrassing moment for the Dutchman.

"I should ask him what he means – what he means and what period of time," Slot said.

"If he felt that was the whole game, I did not feel this until the moment they scored the 1-0. And I think after they scored the 1-0, we were still in the game. But then we had a throw-in, twice we conceded when we had a throw-in. And they go so fast.

"In those moments you have to defend sharper. The second goal was a similar one we conceded earlier on this season over here. And the second time that we concede just before half-time, playing Man City. I miss the fighting spirit definitely in the first 10 minutes after half-time and then afterwards it was just a game where both teams accepted it was 4-0. But in that 10, 15 minutes of time, I missed fighting spirit but just the willingness to win your duel, to be there first, to make it difficult for either a pass or a cross or a finish. Yeah, that is something that we definitely have to do better on Wednesday."

Slot's confusion and his lack of acceptance towards reality and the stark admission of his star player doesn't look too positive heading into the Paris Saint Germain game.

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