EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool told Xabi Alonso is not the right man to succeed Arne Slot

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They're very fickle."We won the league with Arne Slot and all of a sudden we want to sack him?"If he then goes and Alonso comes, suppose Alonso fails in his first six months or first year, are we going to say sack him and bring somebody else in?"I always support the managers, whoever they are, because they come to the club because of their success, because they're good managers, and they have to be given time."Jurgen Klopp was 20 points off the top when he first came, but we stuck with him. It's been an inconsistent season."We've seen in flashes how good we can be.

But I always say to people, because we spent all that money on such good players, it doesn't mean it's going to work all of a sudden."We signed lots of players. But we've got good players.

We've got good characters."I didn't feel that all of a sudden, because we spent £450m, we were going to start running away with things. We won the league by 10 points signing virtually no one."When people said we were going to run away with it now because we'd signed all these players, unfortunately football doesn't work that way."So we're going through a teething period with these new players.