What could go wrong has gone wrong for Arne Slot - he deserves a crack at another season

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Liverpool manager Arne Slot is under increasing pressure despite his belief that his job is safe even after a limp defence of the Premier League title this termWhen Dominik Szoboszlai, the club’s outstanding player in the 2025-26 season, slipped ahead of Aston Villa’s second goal on Friday night, it was a moment that summed up Liverpool’s ill-fated Premier League title defence. He gives explanations for bad results - of which there have been plenty over the past nine months - but not excuses.READ MORE: Jamie Redknapp ‘struggling’ with Arne Slot sack talk as Liverpool boss told he ‘has to go’READ MORE: Chelsea could name Xabi Alonso as new manager NEXT WEEK as talks accelerateAnyhow, as the cliche goes, he knows final judgement on the job he is doing will be based on results.

They should be able to withstand and rebound from a bad season.There was a bad season as recently as 2022-23 when Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool finished fifth in the Premier League. Salah’s statement about wanting Liverpool to ‘go back to being the heavy metal attacking team’ said more about the player himself than it did about the manager he was throwing under a bus.

As the manager himself would doubtless say, these are not excuses for Liverpool’s limp title defence and under-performance in other competitions, but they are explanations.Slot was given a three-year deal when he joined the club in 2024 and if you had said he would deliver a Premier League title in one of those three years, Liverpool fans would probably have been happy. He delivered it in his first year and broke the unprecedented dominance of Manchester City.Whatever happens in the final days of Premier League fixtures, he at least deserves a crack at righting the wrongs of this season.Join our new WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content.