Liverpool may end up getting rid of Slot purely because they cannot think of what else to do | Jonathan Liew

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Particularly a victory as resounding as Liverpool’s unexpected 10-point romp to the Premier League title last season. Jamie Carragher has felt things and, like Walter Cronkite during the Vietnam war, if you’ve lost Carragher then you’ve lost Middle Liverpool.Liverpool are fifth in the Premier League, still in the Champions League, and have accumulated more league points since the start of last season than anybody bar Arsenal.

In its cruder forms it finds voice in the view that last season was basically “Klopp’s title” with “Klopp’s team”.And, really, the Slot discourse cuts to the paradox of modern coaching. The coach is basically a flavour, an aroma, an ambience, and when a team that won the league by a wide margin last season looks so far off the pace next time round, perhaps it is no wonder people will reverse-engineer the easiest route back to salvation.Naturally, everyone will have their own pet theory for Liverpool’s regression.

But what we have no real way of knowing is how much of this is noise, snap reactions to short-term disappointment.Dominik Szoboszlai (right) has looked uncomfortable when deployed at full-back and this has been reflected in Liverpool’s performances. A few Liverpool-supporting friends have mentioned the beefed-up security checks at Anfield, generating long queues outside the ground and perhaps even contributing to so many of this season’s slow starts.Slot is not responsible for this, either.