I’m Not Angry With Liverpool Players – Slot

Liverpool manager Arne Slot has vowed to keep fighting to turn the club’s fortunes around this season. This comes following conversations with the LFC’s hierarchy amid his team’s dismal recent run of form.

According to him, even though it is obvious that the standards on the pitch have dropped this season, he is not angry with his players.

Slot added that losing too many games is definitely not good enough, but he expects his players to keep giving their all to win matches.

His words, “No not at all, although I do agree that our standards have not been of the standard that we are used to and we want, so we think we can play better than we do.

Last season, when we play well there, was a focus on individuals and I said it should be about the team. If the opposite is happening it should also be about the team.

There is a lot of pressure if you play or work at a top club and even more so if you start losing more games than this club or these players or this manager is used to. Then there is always pressure. But there was pressure last season for us to win the league and now it’s a different kind of pressure because we have lost so many games.

What it does to me is I can just do the same, but I don’t have to play so maybe my job is a bit easier when it comes to this. I think it is hard for every player when you are in a bad run of results if you go down after three minutes and then play a good first half and then 10 minutes after half-time you again concede.

So we get knock after knock after knock, which is hard, but that is why I keep saying especially when that happens we have to keep fighting. That is what we have done so well last season and what this club has been about for so many years. That is what we expect.

The minimum I and we expect is we do it over 90 minutes, which is not always easy if you get knock, after knock, after knock.”

WOW.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation.

Domestically, the club has won 19 league titles, eight FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and 16 FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—all English records—and one FIFA Club World Cup.

The club established itself as a major force in domestic and European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, led the club to a combined 11 League titles and four European Cups. Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and 2019 under the management of Rafael Benítez and Jürgen Klopp, respectively; the latter led Liverpool to a 19th league title in 2020, the club’s first during the Premier League era.

Anfield was built in 1884 on land adjacent to Stanley Park. Situated 2 miles (3 km) from Liverpool city centre, it was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent with Anfield owner John Houlding. Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since. The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool’s first match at Anfield.