The speed with which Liverpool have turned from a measured, expertly run football club to the foremost Premier League basket case has been a wonder to behold. And with Arne Slot under significant pressure in an ever-deepening crisis at Anfield, a report from our friends at TEAMtalk suggests the stress of the downturn has engendered an atmosphere of extreme foolishness in the Anfield halls of power.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t lose 6 games from 7 if you\u2019re Liverpool Football Club. Who are the title winners and champions. You can\u2019t do that. It\u2019s unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gary Neville refused to label it a \u201ccrisis\u201d<\/a> but he\u2019s about the only one, and Jamie Carragher said he was \u201cshocked\u201d by the way \u201cfans, friends and family spoke about Slot\u201d after the 3-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest. There are now plenty of people \u2013 who don\u2019t have the \u201cunconditional love\u201d they had for Jurgen Klopp \u2013 that want him out.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Liverpool transfer cock-up can be fixed for just \u00a325m; contract talk is red herring<\/a><\/p>\n TEAMtalk have been told<\/a> by a \u2018Senior Liverpool source\u2019 that while \u201cit\u2019s not as black and white as some say\u201d as \u201cwe don\u2019t sack managers easily\u201d, the outlook could be very different in a couple of weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n \u201c[Is he in danger?] Yeah and no \u2013 he\u2019s under pressure, but it\u2019s not as black and white as some say,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going through a hard time. The death of Jota has, of course, had a serious impact inside the club, and everyone knew there would be a downturn at some point after Jurgen. We\u2019re entering a new cycle \u2013 new head coach, new staff, younger squad profile. That was always part of the plan.<\/p>\n \u201cHe can\u2019t keep losing, that\u2019s obvious. Three or four more bad results and the conversation changes completely. But there is more leeway than people outside think.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t sack managers easily at Liverpool. The owners hate knee-jerk decisions and FSG still see this as year zero of a multi-year project.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE ON LIVERPOOL FROM F365: The owners were also previously dead against making Galactico signings, but flouted that transfer policy in stunning fashion over the summer, meaning they no longer have that in their \u2018This Means More because we\u2019re a football club that does things differently\u2019 armoury, so we absolutely shouldn\u2019t discount the dismissal of their Premier League-winning manager.<\/p>\n Nor apparently their bid to become the benchmark against which the lunacy of all future crisis clubs will be measured by replacing Slot with the worst Premier League manager of last season and this.<\/p>\n Again courtesy of our fine and trusted pals at TEAMtalk, Ange Postecoglou is\u00a0still\u00a0\u2018someone the Liverpool board massively admire\u2019. Just imagine the reaction.<\/p>\n \u2018He\u2019s seen as someone who would suit the club, despite his very clear struggles at Nottingham Forest. However, he was never seen as a good fit at the City Ground and his dismissal from the role has not dampened Liverpool admiration in him.\u2019<\/p>\n Sure, ignore how terrible he was at Nottingham Forest if you like. But guys, what about leading Tottenham to their worst finish in Premier League history? He had them playing well for half of his first season; otherwise they were terrible.<\/p>\n Also, if you\u2019re discounting how sh*t he was at Nottingham Forest on the basis of him being an entirely different type of manager to Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo, why the p*ssing hell would you replace your own safe, reserved boss with that defence-denying chaos-monger? 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