Arne Slot confirms he’s going to drop £40million signing

Arne Slot appears to have confirmed that he'll now drop one of his summer signings. Liverpool heading in a different direction?

It's been an incredibly difficult start to the season for Liverpool. Well, the very start actually went well as the Reds topped the Premier League table and won every game for a long time there.

They still, after all, hold the longest win-streak in the league this season with five. They're just also one away from equalling the longest losing-streak of the season.

The Reds have now lost six of their last seven in all competitions as Arne Slot struggles to find something that works. Their latest defeat came in the Carabao Cup as Crystal Palace beat a heavily-rotated team 3-0 at Anfield.

Now, that same team will not face Aston Villa this weekend - let alone Real Madrid in midweek. Slot will bring many stars back into the fold but there is an interesting situation developing at left-back.

It's not clear what the boss will do but it looks as though Milos Kerkez may be dropped.

What to do with Milos Kerkez

Kerkez started against Palace alongside Andy Robertson. Neither really played left-back, however.

Slot changed his system to a 3-4-3, essentially mirroring the Eagles and playing without a traditional left-back. Instead, Robertson was a left-sided centre-back as Kerkez operated as a left-midfielder.

It didn't exactly make it clear who was the preferred option to be a left-back against Villa. But maybe Slot's quotes from a few weeks ago do.

This is what Slot had to say about Kerkez after he struggled against Chelsea before the international break:

"Milos was more and more tired. He played 90 minutes in two games and now, for the third game in a week, which he’s not used to when he played at Bournemouth. You could feel and see it got more and more difficult to keep going and their wingers are a threat so we decided to make a change over there."

It sounds as though Slot felt it was a mistake to play Kerkez for 90 minutes twice in a row. Well, it was him who played the full 90 on Wednesday as Robertson went off midway through the second half.

Kerkez remained on when the likes of the Scot and Alexis Mac Allister were substituted. That certainly doesn't look like he's facing Villa from the start on Saturday.

Slot's comments, then, do suggest that he'll leave the Hungarian international out of the starting lineup. Instead, we expect Robertson to come back in.

At the very least, Kerkez looks very, very unlikely to start against both Villa and Real Madrid. Slot looks set to drop him in at least one of those.

And we think that's a positive move.

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