The Arne Slot RED FLAGS that Liverpool ignored

Liverpool are in full-blown crisis mode and there is apparently no way out.

The Reds have now lost nine of their last 12 games - the latest humiliation coming at Anfield on Wednesday night.

Although PSV have been in terrific form - without a loss in over two months - a club of Liverpool’s stature should have been able to beat them in the Champions League.

Instead the Eredivisie side won comfortably - 4-1 - confirming a second successive defeat by a three-goal margin at the home of the Premier League champions.

How did it come to this?

Liverpool's form has flatlined

Liverpool secured the title before April was over, spent £450m on new players in the summer transfer window and won all of their first five league games of the season.

The squad looks so disjointed right now and Slot has been unable to arrest the decline. If nothing changes soon this is going to end one way - with Slot out of a job.

It really is an unthinkable situation - from the peak of Slot’s reign to this. When Liverpool beat Tottenham 5-1 at Anfield to confirm the title it looked like he could do no wrong.

Arne Slot's Ibiza red flag

But looking back now the red flags were flown shortly after that game.

There were four full matches left in the Premier League season and Liverpool didn’t win any of them. In fact they only earned two more points. Not that the results “mattered” as such because their lead at the top was unassailable.

But in hindsight it looks reckless that Slot chose to spend the days between the Arsenal and Brighton fixtures - before the season had even ended - in Ibiza.

It wasn’t the work of AI - but of one Wayne Lineker - when a video emerged on May 12 showing the Liverpool boss DJing at a party on the island.

Scarcely believable.

Around the same time the squad were permitted a few days off in a luxury Dubai bolthole. It’s hard to imagine Jurgen Klopp - or Sir Alex Ferguson or Arsene Wenger for that matter - reacting to a title win in the same way.

What it said is that Slot believed the work was done; that the team and staff could afford to relax and let off steam.

Classless Slot slammed by Scholes

But this is football. The job is never done. There were records there for the breaking - and systems to tweak.

Liverpool have come unstuck several times against the same type of opponent this season - playing long balls in behind and profiting.

Couldn’t Slot have used those last few games - against good quality opposition - to try to figure out a different way of playing and foresee the problems coming down the track?

Could he have utillised one or two more young players to see what they were made of? He didn’t.

Paul Scholes was right to call it out on The Good, The Bad and The Football podcast this week. In his words it was “disrespectful” and “classless”. And it’s true. It was.

Arne Slot sent the wrong message

It sent the wrong message and any celebration parties in Ibiza should have been held over until the summer. The manager has made it a bit of a habit and don’t think fans haven’t noticed.

Heading into the October international window Liverpool were teetering. They were reeling from three successive losses but instead of sticking around to put things right - and maybe taking a look at the academy - Slot jetted out to Dubai for another break.

No one is saying the head coach isn’t entitled to a break - but during the season in the middle of a crisis? Again it sends the wrong message.

Slot may find himself out of a job soon and will have plenty of time to spend in Ibiza or Dubai. One thing is for sure - doing it during the season has not served the interests of his employers. And that is something he may be left to regret.

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