Arne Slot and FSG have completely different stances on Liverpool manager's new 'obsession'

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However, if recent comments made by Carragher are correct, Slot may have bigger priorities than retaining the league title this term.Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty ImagesArne Slot’s obsession with the Champions LeagueWriting in his latest column for Sky Sports News, Carragher shared how he thinks Slot has now become obsessed with winning the Champions League after already securing the league title.He wrote: “I think Slot has a little obsession with the Champions League. He speaks about PSG a lot last season, on the back of losing to them.Carragher continued: “I actually bumped into Arne Slot in the summer when he was away, we were both on holiday, and he was there with his family, and I thanked him for what he’d done for Liverpool last season in terms of winning the league.

And he introduced me as a Champions League winner to his wife and his kids.“And I’d almost feel like he thinks ‘that’s our next step’. I could feel it the way he said it, we’ve won the league, but we want to win the Champions League, it was that type of thing.“And it just stuck with me in his head; you can feel he desperately wants it, as all top managers do but when you’re a manager of Liverpool, the club is synonymous with the Champions League, so we have to go close.” Who will win Liverpool vs Nottingham Forest on Saturday?

Photo by Alex Livesey – Danehouse/Getty Images While Slot’s focus may well be on winning Europe’s premier competition, FSG’s stance on the Champions League is very different.Speaking on the October 27 episode of Beyond The Back Four, finance expert Kieran Maguire was discussing the impact of Liverpool missing out on a top-four place amid recent struggles.When doing so, he explained how Liverpool can survive from a financial perspective for one or two years without Champions League football, and that participation is ‘desirable but not essential’.He said: “They’ve got an awful lot of leeway, Liverpool, because FSG run quite a conservative ship, so that they’ve not incurred huge losses.“So one year out of the Champions League is something which they can deal with easily, two years is imperfect, if it gets to three, then you’ve got a problem, but I think we’re a long way off that.“The recent expansion of Anfield, the new deal with Adidas, I suspect there will be a renewal of the deal with Standard Chartered as well. They will prime the pump very well as far as the money coming into the club is concerned.“Champions League participation, it’s desirable but not essential, simply because Liverpool are such a well-run club on other issues that they can survive without it.”Liverpool’s Champions League chances predictedLiverpool return to European action this coming Wednesday, taking on PSV.