'My understanding': Journalist offers new glimmer of hope that Liverpool really could sack Arne Slot
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Photo Credit: Getty Images/Giuseppe Cottini He claims that the Dutchman could yet be sacked even if he delivers Champions League qualification.Slot could still be sacked by LiverpoolWith Fulham and Everton to come in the next two, and plenty more tough games in the Premier League left to play, there is a real question mark over whether Liverpool will finish in the division’s top five.If they don’t, the general assumption has been that Slot will be under pressure. Speaking to Anfield Index, though, Lynch says Liverpool insiders have told him that things are not quite as simple as that.“He has to show something to the end of the season,” he said.
It doesn’t work like that.”Photo by Chris Brunskill/Fantasista/Getty ImagesREAD MORE: Arne Slot suggests how long Alexander Isak will play for Liverpool against Fulham after ‘really nice’ news“I do constantly see kind of suggestions that if he qualifies for the Champions League that’ll keep him in a job. “If Liverpool are operating like that, and my understanding is that they aren’t because they wouldn’t, they’d be in serious trouble if it was as arbitrary as that, because they have to take everything into account, which is, you know, the style of play, if it’s working, if he’s getting the best out of X player, Y player, Z player, what improvements he’s showing, is he providing the foundation going into the next season?
He’s ticking none of those boxes at the moment.”Analysis: No defence for Slot to stayBased on the criteria Lynch puts forward, there is simply no argument that Slot has done enough to stay as Liverpool head coach.Clearly, last season’s Premier League title win should buy him some credit, but things have simply been sliding far too far for far too long. He has had his time and, in the past 12 months, has completely blown it.Champions League qualification was the absolute bare minimum required of the Reds before the season started, with those expectations set by the fanbase and surely the ownership as well.Should he guide Liverpool into the Premier League’s top five, that will not be a success story and should not be treated as such.Recent claims have suggested that Slot will be safe in his job regardless of what happens in the next six weeks or so, but in reality the opposite should be true.