Liverpool manager Arne Slot has insisted he is under no additional pressure from the club’s ownership following Wednesday night’s heavy defeat to PSV Eindhoven, backing up reports that he retains the faith of those at the Anfield helm.
The Reds were thrashed 4–1 on Merseyside, the latest poor result Slot and his team have endured. Liverpool have lost nine of their last 12 games across all competitions to make it the club’s worst run in more than 70 years, stretching back to the 1953–54 season.
Within that, Liverpool have lost three successive games by three or more goals for the first time since December 1953. It prompted homegrown player Curtis Jones to bluntly remark after the PSV humbling, “We’re in the s— and it needs to change.”
Just months after delivering only the club’s second title of the Premier League era, Slot finds himself the subject of a firestorm, with fans increasingly divided over whether Fenway Sports Group should pull the trigger on the Dutchman.
For now, at least, the nature of Slot’s communications with the hierarchy hasn’t changed.
“We've had the same conversations that we've had since I got here,” he told reporters at a press conference on Thursday. “We fight on. We try to improve, but the conversations have been the same as they have been for the last one and a half years.”
This is the same line which was reported by the on the same day, citing sources close to the club and manager who claim that his position is “safe.”
Slot said that he wasn’t aware of what Jones had said but found himself in agreement once told.
“Really good if you bring it to the game,” he explained. “The players at least tried to do it yesterday. The running data was very high, but it didn’t lead to anything in terms of results.
“I think what he is saying is that if we can bring this [attitude] to the game as a team, the minimum we expect is that we fight. I think we are on the same page when it comes to how we want to get out of his situation.”
