Updated / Wednesday, 26 Nov 2025 23:56
Another Liverpool defeat, a ninth reverse in 12 games. Questions aplenty about what exactly has led to this capitulation.
On Wednesday, former Reds player and Champions League winner Didi Hamann watched on as Arne Slot's side fell to a 4-1 defeat against PSV in Europe's top-tier competition.
In assessing it all, Hamann pondered whether Arne Slot's time in charge could be at an end, though he added maybe the Dutchman could help himself by not including some of the big-name players who have not exactly been putting in a shift this season.
The latter assertion now has more credence for the German, who initially felt that Slot was right to go with more or less with the same XI that underperformed against Nottingham Forest last weekend.
"I liked the fact that he kept the team from the other day because he gave them a chance to redeem themselves," said Hamann on RTÉ Sport's coverage of what transpired at Anfield.
Then came the realisation.
"But there comes a point when you got to drop players, big players."
One player was very much in the firing line, with Hamann critical of the effort Mo Salah showed in not tracking back in the lead up to PSV's second goal.
"I thought Salah might be one of the first one to be dropped. And then I said to myself 'I'm not sure because he needs him'. Now he (Slot) has got a decision to make. Do you get the sack with Salah or do you keep your job without him?
"What Salah did for that second PSV goal, that was the time Slot had the chance to take him off straight away because what he did there was disgraceful.
"For a player of Salah's calibre it pains me to say that because he is the guy that has been carrying the team for the last seven or eight years.
"But what he did in letting the player, Mauro Junior, get past him, without doing anything to help the team."