Arne Slot admits to making mistakes this season

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Arne Slot has reflected on an ill-fated 2025/26 season, one that all Liverpool fans are overjoyed to see the back of. Image Credits: Imago ImagesIt has been a season that Arne Slot will want to leave firmly in the rear-view mirror.Liverpool’s title defence fell apart almost as quickly as it began, with a catastrophic run of nine defeats in twelve Premier League matches in the autumn derailing any hopes of back-to-back championships.The Reds limped to a fifth-place finish, securing Champions League football only by virtue of a 1-1 draw with Brentford on the final day of the season.The scrutiny on Slot throughout the campaign has been relentless.His handling of Mohamed Salah – benched during that catastrophic run, which led to the Egyptian publicly criticising his manager before eventually engineering an exit from his contract – is likely to be the defining controversy of his second season in charge.Questions have also lingered over his reluctance to hand more responsibility to academy teenager Rio Ngumoha, and whether his loyalty to certain underperforming players cost Liverpool dearly in their title defence.But speaking in his post-Brentford press conference, Arne Slot has admitted that not all decisions he’s made this season have been the right ones:“Not what I would have loved us to achieve this season before we started but taking everything into account, what has happened to us this season, I’m happy that we’ve qualified for the Champions League,” said Slot.“We, I, haven’t been perfect, but I would have answered this question exactly the same in the year we won the league because as a manager you can never be perfect, a player can never be perfect.“But all the decisions I’ve made throughout the whole season has been only with one idea, and that’s being very well prepared.”The Dutchman added:“Not every decision can be the right one so it would be stupid for me to sit here and say all the decisions I’ve made were the right ones.“But before I made them, it felt every time they were the right ones to make.

But a lot of times I didn’t even have to make decisions or choices.”What matters now is how Slot responds.Liverpool have Champions League football to look forward to, and with it, the opportunity to rebuild and reset ahead of what will be a crucial summer.If the Dutchman can learn from the errors of this season – particularly around squad rotation, trust in younger players, and managing big personalities – then perhaps this painful campaign will serve as the foundation for something better.