Arne Slot Cannot Be Trusted With Liverpool’s Future
Salah and Robertson have hinted at falling standards, the football confirms it, and Liverpool cannot afford to wait for this to get worse.
Manchester United 3-2 Liverpool. Old Trafford. Another defeat. Another grim entry in what has become the most joyless Liverpool season in years.
I went into this one expecting Liverpool to lose, which tells you plenty. I do not enjoy saying that. I am not one of those fans who wants to be proved right when everything is falling apart. I would happily be wrong every week if it meant Liverpool looked alive again. Yet this side has drained the hope out of even the most optimistic corners of the fanbase.
The worst part is that the scoreline flattered Liverpool.
United were 2-0 up early and could have been further ahead. Liverpool’s two goals came from United mistakes, not from any great attacking design. Dominik Szoboszlai finished brilliantly for the first, Cody Gakpo took the second well, but let’s be honest, both moments were gifts. Liverpool did not carve United open. They didn’t impose themselves. They didn’t look like a side with a plan.
They looked like a side waiting for something to happen.
And that, more than the result, is the real problem.
Liverpool Standards Are Dropping In Plain Sight
The warnings have been there. Mohamed Salah has hinted at them. Andy Robertson has hinted at them. Nobody has come out and thrown chairs across the room, because that is not how senior professionals usually operate. They choose their words carefully. They are media-trained. They speak in layers. They leave enough unsaid for you to understand the point.
Salah talking about standards, about people needing to keep working, about the culture that has to remain, was not random. Robertson’s farewell tone and the praise around him carried the same feeling. These are not accidents. These are experienced players, winners, leaders, effectively saying, “Something is slipping here.”
And the frightening thing is, you can see it.
