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Mon 1 December 2025 16:00, UK <\/p>\n
Liverpool players have been left miffed by two of Arne Slot\u2019s selection in particularly during the horror run that plunged his future into doubt, sources have told Football Insider.<\/p>\n
The Reds had been on a run of five defeats in six Premier League<\/a> games prior to their victory away at West Ham<\/a> at the weekend, to heap the pressure on the manager. <\/p>\n However, Slot remains the odds-on favourite to be Liverpool manager<\/a> come January 1, and his position has been strengthened once again by the victory on Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n Nevertheless, the Dutchman\u2019s position remains a big talking point among the club\u2019s fans, and he is now facing questions from within his squad after recent events at Anfield. <\/p>\n Milos Kerkez has had a difficult time for Liverpool<\/a> after his move from Bournemouth in the summer, but he has continually been given the nod by Slot despite his stuttering displays.<\/p>\n The Hungarian has started 11 games in the league already this term, including five of the six defeats that the Reds have endured in the Premier League so far. <\/p>\n Sources say there has been some surprise from within the dressing room that he is continually being selected ahead of the proven and still very able Andrew Robertson<\/a>.<\/p>\n MORE FOOTBALL INSIDER STORIES<\/p>\n There is similar frustration among the players, it is said, regarding Slot\u2019s decision to use midfielders on the right side of the defence, with Curtis Jones<\/a> and Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a> both acting as regular features at right-back this season. <\/p>\n This especially applies to Szoboszlai, who has already started four league games in an unnatural right-back role, while either he or Jones, who started at right-back in the defeats to Nottingham Forest and PSV Eindhoven, have slotted into the backline a further four times during league games.<\/p>\n Arne Slot to get the benefit of the doubt as January spending planned<\/p>\n Liverpool are keen to give Slot the benefit of the doubt<\/a> and keep him in the job for now, given the credit that he has built up, and they are prepared to make funds available for him again in January.<\/p>\n The defence has been an issue in recent weeks, with the Reds shipping 10 goals across three games prior to their clean sheet away at West Ham. <\/p>\n The right-back issue has been exacerbated by the recent injury to Conor Bradley<\/a>, but it certainly feels wise for Slot<\/a> and Co. to address that in the market in January before the frustration within the group spreads.<\/p>\n Both Szoboszlai and Jones are valuable attacking assets, and while their versatility has dug their team out of a hole on many occasions already this season, it has often left them with another issue elsewhere on the pitch.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Imago Mon 1 December 2025 16:00, UK Liverpool players have been left miffed by two of Arne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[16093,3450,403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-324821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arne-slot","9":"tag-liverpool","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Liverpool](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Arne-Slot-3-1024x576.jpg\")
Credit: ImagoLiverpool squad miffed by Milos Kerkez and one other selection<\/p>\n![\"Dominik](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dominik-Szoboszlai-1024x576.jpg\")
Credit: Imago<\/p>\n