'FA Cup should not be enough to save Slot'
It really is Champions League or bust for Arne Slot. Not even an FA Cup win should be enough for him to keep his job based on the performances in the Premier League. Liverpool were, again, horrific in the Saturday lunchtime defeat by Brighton - so slow on the ball, lacking any ideas or creativity and sloppy at the back.
[BBC] [Getty Images] It really is Champions League or bust for Arne Slot. Not even an FA Cup win should be enough for him to keep his job based on the performances in the Premier League. Liverpool were, again, horrific in the Saturday lunchtime defeat by Brighton - so slow on the ball, lacking any ideas or creativity and sloppy at the back.
It's the story of the season. And the truth is Liverpool have been playing badly under Slot for 12 months. This time last year, the title was already sewn up, but the performances had dropped.
That could obviously be forgiven - and Slot himself even holidayed in Ibiza before the season was over - but it's been going on for far too long. Liverpool have multiple brilliant players and almost all of them are off the boil. You can't change a squad, so sometimes you have to change the manager.
Slot's tone in news conferences is so uninspiring - thinly veiled woe-is-me stories every time. The Paris St-Germain away leg is the first midweek game following the international break. Liverpool might turn up, but if they play like they did against Brighton, they might as well not bother.