FSG Got It Right, Arne Slot’s Liverpool Had Run Out Of Road
The briefings said patience, the football said panic, and the numbers left Liverpool with nowhere else to go.
There are moments as a Liverpool fan when you can feel the mood of the club shift before anyone at the club says a word. This was one of them.
For months, the official noise around Arne Slot suggested patience. Stick with him. Trust the process. Look at the title he won in 2024/25. Respect the achievement. Give him time. I understood why some wanted to believe that, because winning the Premier League in your first season at Liverpool is not a small thing. Slot will always have that on his record, and nobody can take it away from him.
Yet football does not wait around for gratitude to become a plan.
A few of us at Anfield Index did not buy the briefings. We did not believe Liverpool could look at what was happening on the pitch, run the numbers, assess the mood around the squad, listen to the stadium, and still conclude that this could carry on into another season.
We stuck to our task because the evidence was screaming at everyone. The performances had collapsed. The data was awful. The toxicity was at the highest level. There were zero positives left.
So when Arne Slot was sacked yesterday, my first reaction was relief. Not joy at someone losing their job, because that part is never nice. Relief that Liverpool had finally acted like Liverpool again.
Why Liverpool Had To Sack Arne Slot
The temptation after any sacking is to make it sound simple. Slot was good, then he was bad. That is not quite right.
He did a very good job in his first season. He inherited a squad capable of winning, yes, but he still had to guide it over the line. He made tweaks. He created calm after Jürgen Klopp’s emotional farewell. He helped Mohamed Salah produce another elite season. Liverpool won the league, and Slot deserves credit for that.
