No More Excuses: Time to Take Responsibility for Your Team's Deterioration Starts With Poor Performance
[Getty Images] It is going to be "really difficult" for Liverpool boss Arne Slot to get fans back on side, says former defender Jamie Carragher. After losing their lead to draw late on with relegation-threatened Tottenham on Sunday, audible boos could be heard around Anfield. Despite winning the Premier League less than 12 months ago, the Reds' style of play and a string of disappointing results have led to discontent among the fanbase.
"The bigger point is how worrying [the form] is for the manager," Carragher said on Sky Sports Monday Night Football. "I think there is a difference with most support with what we see online compared with the match-going fans. For a lot of this season when people have turned on Arne Slot, the match-going fans have stuck with him.
"It's not easy for a Liverpool crowd to turn on a manager who has won a title 12 months before, but I felt there was a big shift [on Sunday] in terms of how the crowd felt about their Liverpool team and their manager. "The booing at the end, that was real booing. That was a proper unhappy and disgruntled fanbase.
I think it is going to be really difficult now for Arne Slot to get them back. Once you lose that crowd it is very difficult. "Something really special could yet happen, like a Champions League, or maybe you win the FA Cup and qualify for the Champions League.
But I think a lot of supporters have gone on the back of what has happened in these last couple of weeks especially. "