Jurgen Klopp may have already sealed Arne Slot’s fate; Liverpool must act after damning evidence

ON APPLE & GOOGLE PLAY As things stand (as of 23 March), the Premier League is all but guaranteed to win one of two extra European Performance Spots by UEFA. Liverpool are not performing like a capable Premier League side Whilst Liverpool’s performances in Europe may contradict matters at home, the fact of the matter remains that Arne Slot’s men are considerably off the boil . Indeed, Spencer Mossman’s analysis on X (formerly Twitter) highlights that the club has suffered a massive drop-off from their title-winning form of 2024/25.

Want more Empire of the Kop coverage? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list for news you can trust Yes, still qualifying for the Champions League would have to represent a small victory for the club in light of the turmoil of the season. But this is still a squad carrying so much quality that it has to be considered something of a failure if we’re only holding on to Champions League football as a result of a technicality.

Jurgen Klopp has damned Slot at Anfield To be completely fair to Slot, it’s not like his predecessor, Jurgen Klopp, delivered season upon season of incredible success. But you always got the sense, even in the “difficult” seasons, that things were being worked upon behind the scenes to get some kind of sustainable improvement from the second half of the campaign. Take the 2020/21 season as an example, with injuries decimating our backline and forcing the likes of Nathaniel Phillips and Rhys Williams into the limelight.

By early March, Liverpool were toiling in eighth, but won eight out of their remaining 10 Premier League games to ensure a top-three finish in the table. That’s title-winning form. Or, at the very least, top two form.