When Liverpool won the Premier League last year while playing very poor football at the end of the season, many people saw that Liverpool was not progressing in the right direction. However, their fans were saying, “We are champions of England; it doesn’t matter, we are first.” But they are now in huge problems, which are going to be much bigger, and they can’t deny it this time.
Liverpool had previously been beaten in the EFL Cup final against Newcastle United, eliminated from the Champions League by PSG, and lost to Plymouth in the FA Cup. When you add those results to their Premier League form after mathematically securing the title last season, it becomes clear that this project is not developing well — and that is becoming the ugly truth of Arne Slot as Liverpool’s manager.
Liverpool’s atmosphere and environment left behind by Jürgen Klopp’s great management and charisma have been replaced by the Dutchman Arne Slot, who runs the club like a coach who wants to win every game at any cost.
He really is focused on football and tactics, though every Premier League game, he is there. He sets the tactics and behaves like a real Premier League coach, with insight and tactics, and accumulates a great number of points in the end. He wins many points in the finish of the game.
But it is a manager who sold half of his last season’s Premier League winning team -very important players who he lost forever- and brought in stars that cost 145 million(Isak) and 125 million(Wirtz) pounds, and 95 million cost signing Ekitike.
Alexander Arlond’s treason cost Liverpool
The first issues started in the middle of the last season when Liverpool’s legend — as he was called — Alexander-Arnold, made a deal with Real Madrid over his transfer to the Bernabéu. This betrayal cost Liverpool a lot. Not only was he a very important player for Liverpool, but he also decided to leave the club at a very bad moment. They lost the balance that was given by Arnold, so they have started to explore the market.
That’s how Slot got the ridiculous idea to sign two new backs – left and right, and sell the old ones. Kerkez, who had played two good months in the Premier League for Bournemouth, was signed as Arne’s idea and his “perfect” left-back solution.
Robertson was hoping he would finally get his chance in the starting XI and become an important piece of the puzzle, but some young kid was signed for big money instead. Slot also signed Frimpong from Bayer Leverkusen for the right-back position.
Van Dijk- Konate partnership
His central defenders have been playing in the first team for years, so they are spent, tired, and unable to perform as one unit. Soo Van Dijk and Konate don’t work for him anymore. This central-back pair doesn’t have good alternatives, especially with Leon injured. So there is a need for refreshment in the central-back position — and the transfer window has been closed more than a month ago..
Before Slot, under Jürgen Klopp, Liverpool were able to play passing football from the back without making too many mistakes; That was in-play but was very much improved by Slot. This is how Liverpool dominated the games last season and had so many wins with good positions, without losing the ball easily and avoiding giving it to opponents. The goalkeeper was involved with small passes, especially Kelleher when he was at the club. They were instructed and trained not to make mistakes when the ball is in the possession of their defensive line.
Players Who Were Sold
It’s not only that Slot is using bad tactics. It’s not just that they won against Burnley with a penalty given and a red card, or that they beat Bournemouth with so much luck, or barely defeated Newcastle United with a red card on Newcastle’s side. They also struggled to beat Southampton with their hardest effort in the League Cup. How does he have a bad roster, a low number of players for the season, and all the new arrivals are under so much pressure
He made a space for new signings Wirtz, Ekitike, Isak, Frimpong, and Kerkez. That’s how Liverpool lost its charisma — and the reason many people loved them. They have lost their chemistry.
They were important for Liverpool
A big part of the winning team from last season was sold out because they were in the wrong hands. He sold Darwin Núñez for missing a penalty in the game against PSG; he sold Luis Díaz, Quansah, Kelleher, Tsimikas, and Elliott.
Those were his players. There was no reason to sell Quansah or Kelleher. Tsimikas was a very good bench player for Liverpool for years, and Elliott was fantastic as a number 10. Darwin wasn’t protected by the coach.
He has given up on Luiz Dias and left him self with Szoboszlai.
Today, he has Chiesa and Szoboszlai, who don’t work well for him. Arne Slot did all this — and was allowed to. It will only get worse in the future, especially with this kind of leadership.
The real reasons
Simply, he doesn’t have a roster, doesn’t have depth in his team, and has so many problems that he created himself by selling and also buying. He said at a press conference that he prefers to have fewer players in the squad rather than many-maybe this explains it.
He did everything just to win the opening games — Chelsea were under so much pressure; if they had lost to Liverpool, they would have stayed on only 8 points in the table. But they won against this tired Liverpool side, which has disappointed many.
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