Arne Slot needs to figure out where Liverpool have gone wrong so far this season.
The Dutch manager was a force to be reckoned with last year when he succeeded Jurgen Klopp as the Reds manager, as he won the Premier League title in his very first season.
However, while he is still second in the league table behind Arsenal, Slot has overseen three back-to-back defeats in all competitions, which has included conceding twice in the last minute.
The defeats were not a shock to fans who had seen the performances of their team at the start of the season and noticed the flaws that were going to be a hindrance to Liverpool in their next fixtures.
As it is now the international break, there is not much that can be done by the manager immediately to sort his problems, as he will have to wait and see on the injury status of players coming back from the break.
Simon Jordan labels Arne Slot’s dominant comments about losses as ‘silly’
It is not all bad news for the Reds as they can turn things around in the blink of an eye, knowing that when they finally click, they will be unstoppable.
But after the three defeats, it has been hard to see how these problems can be immediately fixed, with not enough positives to draw on from the losses as well.
In some post-match comments, the Dutchman had alluded to the fact that he felt that both the Crystal Palace and Chelsea defeats were games where the fine margins went against his side once again.
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It was that statement that Simon Jordan was unhappy with, as he felt that the Reds had not been as good as the Liverpool boss had believed.
Speaking on talkSPORT this morning, the media personality tore into the comments made by the manager and explained why he feels Slot was fortunate last year.
Jordan said: “I like Arne Slot and I listened to him over the weekend. I mean, it’s an interesting thing because this is now his team. This is a group of players that he’s now bought. He inherited a team, and some people might argue he’s quite fortunate last year because I think some of the teams in the league were quite mediocre.
“He won the league and deserves all the plaudits for it. I listened to him say some rather silly things on the weekend. He described the games they’ve been in against Galatasaray or Crystal Palace and Chelsea as being games that Liverpool were more dominant in and but they could have been 4-0 down against Palace.
“They got battered by Crystal Palace. So when Slot started saying that look they’ve got to do better Liverpool. Slot is now going to be under a little bit more focus because this really is his side. Last year that was not his side. That was a side that was handed to him. He had an embarrassment of riches.”
Emmanuel Petit says Arne Slot summer signing comments are an excuse
Jordan was joined in the studio by former Arsenal player Emmanuel Petit, who also had some strong words to say about his former club’s title rivals.
The Frenchman was asked by host Jim White what he thought of Slot talking about summer signings still struggling to fit into the squad after the Chelsea defeat.
Petit, of course, took the opportunity to say that he believed that the manager was using it as an excuse for why he now finds himself in second.
He said: “He’s talking about the new signings? That’s what he said. That’s an excuse for him to explain why they are second behind Arsenal if I understand it well.”
It is not an excuse, but the fact of the matter is that there have been issues with trying to embed all the new faces into the squad.
This squad will click into gear; it seems like time is needed for the manager to work out just how to do it.
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