{"id":469296,"date":"2026-02-15T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/469296\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:20:07","slug":"liverpool-player-snubbed-again-by-slot-as-fan-clamour-ignored-in-admirable-right-back-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/469296\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool player snubbed again by Slot as fan clamour ignored in admirable right-back stance"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a bruising, chastening few months for Arne Slot. But his reluctance to place any old square peg in the same shaped Liverpool hole deserves some credit.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn general, if you don\u2019t win a game, the players who aren\u2019t playing become the best players in the squad,\u201d he said earlier this week. \u201cThat\u2019s the same everywhere in the\u00a0world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an example of that as well,\u201d the Dutchman added of one of the more absurd clamours of recent times: for Calvin Ramsay to rescue the Reds.<\/p>\n

That groundswell of opinion, that small but loud surge of momentum pushing a player with three Liverpool<\/a> appearances in four years to the first-team fore, is inevitable and not without just cause. As the last right-back standing at Anfield, many have framed him as the solution to an ongoing injury crisis.<\/p>\n

But Slot has resisted the temptation thus far.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve chosen other players until now and that\u2019s also what I\u2019m going to do tomorrow,\u201d he said before the Sunderland game, in which Wataru Endo was given the nod ahead of Ramsay.<\/p>\n

The Japan international\u2019s season might well be over due to an injury suffered in that victory<\/a>, with Curtis Jones the next repurposed cab off the midfield rank.<\/p>\n

It is ostensibly harsh on Ramsay, but also very possibly the kindest thing to do. The Scot has spent the last three seasons barely playing on loan at Wigan, Bolton and Kilmarnock, has a Liverpool first-team career comprised of 183 minutes and has never even played in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

One read of Slot vowing \u201cto protect all my players\u201d is that he is a hypocrite for rejecting and overlooking Ramsay. Another is that he is sheltering someone who likely either isn\u2019t ready or good enough, certainly not with Liverpool as unstable as they\u2019ve been.<\/p>\n

It is a cruel reality Slot has done well to realise and stand by, blocking out the noise from those who see a vacancy at right-back and figure, even in this multi-faceted world, that it must be filled by A Right-Back.<\/p>\n

Jones opening the scoring in a morale-boosting FA Cup win over Brighton was not justification for his deployment there; that was his midfield muscle memory kicking in to time his run to perfection, meeting Milos Kerkez\u2019s gorgeous delivery with a first-time finish.<\/p>\n

But his all-round performance helping shut down that right side before Joe Gomez could take over for a breezy final 20 minutes underlined why Slot considers Ramsay \u201cone of\u201d his right-back choices, while having \u201cbetter options to play\u201d instead.<\/p>\n

Dominik Szoboszlai might have forced a shift in that pecking order anyway; he is far too important not to play in a more prominent, decisive position<\/a>, as his emphatic strike for the second goal showed.<\/p>\n

But he will still likely be ahead of Ramsay along with a great many others when push comes to shove.<\/p>\n

Slot putting the inexperienced Scot behind a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency box and having it double-glazed with as many midfielders as possible is simply the right call for both player and club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been a bruising, chastening few months for Arne Slot. But his reluctance to place any old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[16093,11027,43576,84645,424,24663,3450,3,77850,403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-469296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arne-slot","9":"tag-curtis-jones","10":"tag-f365-features","11":"tag-f365-says","12":"tag-front-page","13":"tag-home-page","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-popular","17":"tag-soccer","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469296","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=469296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}