Do Liverpool fans think Slot is under pressure?

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Do Liverpool fans think Slot is under pressure?Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Arne Slot was added to the banner above - created by the Irish Kop website - before the 2025-26 seasonArne Slot has already cemented his place in Liverpool history.The 47-year-old Reds manager is one of the iconic faces on a banner displayed on the Kop before every home game, alongside Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan, Kenny Dalglish, Rafael Benitez and Jurgen Klopp - all the Liverpool managers to have won a top-flight title or European Cup.After winning the Premier League in his first season, and spending almost £450m on a new-look squad in the summer, it seemed as though Slot was going to carry on in the same fashion this season.They started their title defence with five straight wins - albeit leaving it late at times - but have now gone over a month without a Premier League victory.They sit seventh in the table, seven points behind leaders Arsenal, and were knocked out of the Carabao Cup on Wednesday, losing 3-0 at home to Crystal Palace.After six defeats in their past seven games, BBC Sport spoke to Liverpool fans to find out what's going on this season and how they feel towards the manager.'We are losing patience'Slot's squad selection for Wednesday's EFL Cup defeat by Crystal Palace sparked huge debate.He made 10 changes from Liverpool's last outing, handing out two debuts and naming three teenagers in his starting line-up, plus a further five among his substitutes.The likes of Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate, Dominik Szoboszlai, Cody Gakpo, Florian Wirtz, Mohamed Salah and Hugo Ekitike were all absent as the Reds made a tame exit in a competition they have won twice in the past four seasons.Liverpool fan Abigail Rudkin told BBC Sport she is disappointed by Slot's decision-making."Walking to the game last night, me and my dad got the team sheet and we were like 'he's sacrificed this'," she said. "There are those on social media that are calling on him to lose his job, and there are the people I see at the ground, like me, who are losing patience going to these games and not enjoying it as much with losing the games, but they also want to stay patient with him because we are very grateful to him for what we've had from last season when we thought it would all fall apart without Jurgen Klopp."Winning the title in his maiden season is a double-edged sword for Slot according to supporter Richard."The problem is Slot won the Premier League with Jurgen Klopp's team," he said.

This is not Liverpool at all."Fellow fan Ryan said it's "way too soon" to be talking about getting rid of Slot, but said players need to take responsibility and shoulder some of the blame too."We don't turn into a bad team overnight," he said. "But Slot doesn't help himself with some of his decisions - and that is what he can control."Liverpool operate differently and I can't see us cutting Slot and his staff so soon.

Some have been way, way below an acceptable standard for Liverpool."Liverpool fan Josh Sexton - who contributes to The Anfield Wrap - told BBC Sport there are a multitude of reasons why this season's form has been suffering."Key players are out of form, a few players are struggling for fitness, or suffering from injury issues, and there is a lack of continuity from last season," he said."A lot of those continuity issues stem from the business done in the summer, most of which was necessary for one reason or another and I don't think many Liverpool fans would look back and say that they regret the departures of any players besides possibly Luis Diaz and the profile of the player that Trent Alexander-Arnold is - the emotion attached to that exit causes this supporter to not miss the man himself as such."The variable within all of this is that one player we lost in the summer was lost in the most tragic of circumstances very unexpectedly, and there are more reasons than just footballing ones why that loss is absolutely immeasurable."Sexton said the emotions of Mohamed Salah after Liverpool's first game against Bournemouth showed how Diogo Jota's death has impacted not only the players who were his team-mates, but also the new arrivals, who have come into a dressing room that has been hit hard by the loss of a close friend."The tributes from within the club and from the supporters serve as a constant celebration of the magnificent human being that we were lucky enough to call one of our own, but of course they can also stir up feelings of grief and loss which can't be easy to perform through at an elite level," he added."And yet that is exactly what Liverpool have to do with the target on their back as Premier League champions, and I've not noticed any drop in heads or performance per se when those vocal tributes have been paid (the song the fans sing in Jota's memory actually started later than 20 minutes against Manchester United as Cody Gakpo went through on goal and hit the post)."It will no doubt be having a general impact, but we'd all do well to remember everybody has their own grieving process and give each other the leeway to carry on despite such an unspeakable tragedy."'Always going to be a tough season'Earlier this month Liverpool captain Van Dijk addressed the fact that the club was mourning the death of Jota, who died in a car crash in July."It was always going to be a tough season," he said after a 2-1 defeat by Chelsea on 4 October."Nobody said that it was going to be plain sailing whatsoever."It was always going to be ups and downs for multiple reasons that we shouldn't forget, and all we have to do is stick together."Speaking on Radio 5 Live on Wednesday night, former Liverpool full-back Stephen Warnock said: "You've got a team that's mourning in that changing room. We spent so much money on players and he doesn't seem to know how to play them.