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Liverpool's Arne Slot dilemma after terrible Tottenham Hotspur showing

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Liverpool's 1-0 win over Everton in 2019. Here is what Liverpool should do about Arne Slot's Liverpool future.Liverpool's seasonTo say Liverpool's season has been underwhelming is something of an understatement.



Six wins in 13 matches, winning less than half your games against the bottom seven tells you a story, and that is the manager doesn't deserve to keep his job.Even anecdotally, on Sunday and in games in general, Liverpool look impotent, unable to crank up the pressure on the worst form team in the Premier League.Liverpool are caught between stools, on one hand is the logic of the home team, the better team wanting to push and finish Spurs off, on the other is the acceptance that Liverpool aren't that good, and the 'control' Slot has strove to implement.Liverpool FC v Atletico de Madrid - UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Phase MD1 | Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/GettyImagesIt is a far cry from the days of Klopp, where Liverpool would press the life out of a team. When you leave games to chance, there are always going to be times when it slips away from you.Liverpool's mitigating circumstancesWe all know by now that this has not been a normal season for Liverpool.

They have to take some responsibility for a farce that they should have foreseen.With that being said, this is a team that was expected to compete for the league title and it is going to land nowhere near, and for that, the manager has to take some responsibility.Liverpool need to be better, but the question is how to achieve that.What does Liverpool's future hold?For Arne Slot it seems as though time is fast running out. The number of games left in the season are quickly evaporating and so is the confidence of the fans.I think Sunday represented a number of people that have been convinced that he is no longer the man to lead this team forward, and very few managers win that trust back when it is in such dire straights.It seems unlikely that Liverpool would make a change now, but I think Liverpool would be missing a trick if they weren't tapping up Xabi Alonso ready for the summer.Bayer 04 Leverkusen Training Session And Press Conference - UEFA Champions League 2024/25 League | Jörg Schüler/GettyImagesArne Slot did a fantastic job last season at tweaking a good time and providing a platform for Liverpool to win a second Premier League title in 35 years.However, it remains to be seen whether Slot can navigate an on-field crisis.