Can somebody PLEASE take the microphone away from Arne Slot?

Arne Slot really doesn’t help himself sometimes.

First of all let it be said that Liverpool fans will ALWAYS be grateful for the 2024/25 Premier League title. To win it - at the first time of asking - was truly a monumental achievement for the Reds’ head coach.

And to do so without signing any players - the underutilised Federico Chiesa aside - paid testament to the 47-year-old's coaching abilities.

Truth is however that the Premier League champions are on the slide and have been for some time. Results began to slacken off in the final third of last season - and in the new campaign Slot has been unable to arrest the decline.

Only FIVE top-flight wins have been taken since October and that is form more likely to see a club relegated than win the title all over again.

But fans are not only dealing with slumping standards on the pitch.

Please take the mic away from Arne Slot

Very often when Arne Slot is facing the press he comes out with another soundbite to annoy the fanbase.

It’s hard to believe it’s being done deliberately - it’s just that the former Feyenoord coach seems to blurt things out sometimes.

He has been insensitive to say the least to certain players- for example Calvin Ramsay’s first-team hopes being squashed like a bug in recent weeks.

That was one occasion when a little more tact from the title-winning manager would have been appreciated.

A while back he also mentioned that he was almost pleased to be knocked out of the EFL Cup given Liverpool’s heavy schedule. Maybe he did really think that, but don’t say it.

Standards are high around Liverpool; the club’s fans expect to compete for every trophy on offer and do not want their head coach to wave the white flag.

Ahead of the game against Qarabag in the Champions League Slot was at it again.

This time he suggested that Liverpool’s 2024/25 Premier League win came about because they’d been knocked out of the Champions League earlier than Arsenal.

Arne Slot gets it wrong again

“Again, this is not going to be a popular opinion what I’m going to tell you now, but maybe the reason why we won the league last season is that we had to play Paris Saint-Germain in the last-16,” he said.

“As you know, they beat us, and we had every time a week to prepare for the next game. Maybe that has helped us as well, maybe if we had to double up that programme, which Arsenal had, and they dropped a few points in that period of time, that has helped us in winning the league.”

This is wrong on so many levels. For one thing, Slot is actually playing down his own achievements. By the time Liverpool were eliminated from Europe by PSG they were 15 points clear of Arsenal and there were only nine games to go.

They could have stuttered over the line and still got the job done - such was their dominance in the first three quarters of the campaign.

And a coach as astute as Slot will surely know it’s wrong. So what is the point of these comments? Is he trying to send a message that the squad isn’t big or deep enough to compete in all competitions?

Why is Arne Slot playing down Liverpool successes?

And then Slot played another one of his hits.

He’s changed his tune recently about Liverpool’s title successes. He used to say for example that the Reds had won two titles in five years - but now he’s taken to saying that they’d only won two in 30 before he arrived.

Again to what end? There is no reason to talk down the club’s achievements and to bypass the fact that they’d been legitimate contenders for Manchester City’s crowns over the last decade or so.

Perhaps he is trying to imply that the Anfield club were nothing before got here - that he alone is responsible for them being back in the spotlight.

That however is wrong and disrespectful two in 30 years is something you might expect a rival fan to say - let alone the manager of the football club.

Slot might well be feeling prickly as the sun sets on his reign at the club. It’s likely that his position will come under threat in summer having failed to establish an effective style of play this season.

He was given £450m worth of new players in order to get it right and sustain a title defence.

It hasn’t happened and the buck stops with the head coach. It's time for someone to take the mic from Slot before he gets himself in any more trouble.

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