Liverpool chiefs held secret Jurgen Klopp meeting before making final call on firing manager

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The Liverpool boss still has a lot of credit in the bank following last season’s success, and the club’s chairman Tom Werner only gave him his backing a few days ago, so it wouldn’t seem as though Slot faces being fired at the moment. FSG had actually spent the preceding two weeks sounding out a would-be successor, and just days before Rodgers was dismissed, Jurgen Klopp was meeting Liverpool’s chiefs.

I had nothing to do. I had time off.

"I obviously convinced him in a way that he wanted to meet in New York to bring the deal over the line. pretty much that’s how it started." Arne Slot is under increasing pressure as Liverpool's awful form continues (Image: Molly Darlington/Getty Images) Both Liverpool and Klopp managed to keep the meeting secret - the latter insisted at the time he had traveled to the US to watch a basketball game - and after talks that lasted six hours, the wheels were in motion for the German to take over from Rodgers. With the club’s chairman Werner in attendance to watch the defeat to Forest on Saturday, there will be no escaping any scrutiny from Liverpool’s hierarchy for Slot.