Paul Scholes believes Liverpool's struggles started at the back-end of last season as he took aim at Arne Slot
Paul Scholes speaks on the Stick to Football podcast
Paul Scholes speaks on the Stick to Football podcast
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Paul Scholes has accused Arne Slot of being ‘disrespectful’ and ‘classless’ as he shared his belief that Liverpool’s current woes actually started last season. The Reds currently sit 12th in the Premier League table after losing six of their last seven matches in the English top flight.
Suffering defeat in eight of their last 11 matches in all competitions, they also failed to win any of their final four matches of last season after clinching the Premier League title at the end of April.
And Scholes believes such a run is when the wheels actually started to come off for Liverpool as he took aim at Slot for celebrating the Reds’ title win in Ibiza before the campaign had even concluded.
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“I think this started towards the end of last season,” the Manchester United legend said on The Good, The Bad & The Football podcast. “Do you remember when they won the league?
“The bad form started; they went away, went to Ibiza or something.
“Arne Slot was DJing. Honestly, DJing in Ibiza. I think that’s disrespectful that, before the season’s done. I think that’s classless.”
Scholes is not the first Red Devils icon to have taken issue with Liverpool’s title celebrations, with Roy Keane also previously calling them out.
However, the former Republic of Ireland international was the only pundit taking umbrage with the Reds at the time, as opposed to Scholes now making such a point following Liverpool’s wretched run of form.
“Liverpool have switched off, haven’t they?,” Keane said on Stick to Football at the time. “They’re irritating me at the moment.
“It doesn’t matter [that they’ve won the league], but the fringe players coming in and they’re all in Ibiza – what kind of message is that?
“I’m thinking, ‘Come on, show a bit of class’. Salah scores a goal and he’s taking pictures when the game’s still on. Come on, liven up a little bit.”
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