Arne Slot was asked about his job after Liverpool's struggles continued with a 4-1 Champions League home loss to PSV Eindhoven
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 26: Arne Slot manager / head coach of Liverpool during the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Phase MD5 match between Liverpool FC and PSV Eindhoven at Anfield on November 26, 2025 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images)
Arne Slot reacts during his Liverpool side's 4-1 home loss to PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League
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Arne Slot has admitted he can understand why his future as Liverpool head coach is being questioned after his side fell to an embarrassing 4-1 defeat at home to PSV Eindhoven. Supporters briefly booed at the full-time whistle following the latest loss, which was the reigning Premier League champions' ninth in their last 12 games in all competitions.
Liverpool fell behind to an early Ivan Perisic penalty. And although Dominik Szoboszlai quickly cancelled out the opener, second-half goals from Guus Til and a brace from substitute Couhaib Driouech compounded further misery on Slot’s struggled side.
The heavy reverse to the Eredivisie outfit followed on from successive 3-0 defeats away to Manchester City and at home to Nottingham Forest.
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And Slot admitted he has been left shocked by the Reds' wretched run of form as he addressed uncertainty about his future at Anfield.
“I don’t think it’s important if it’s fair or not,” he said when asked about his job security amid the recent run, having led Liverpool to the Premier League title only six months ago. “But that is normal. That I understand.
“If any manager around the world loses football games, let alone so many as we’ve lost, it’s quite normal that people have an opinion about that.
“And if that’s fair or not fair, that’s for the people to judge. But that is normal. I think it is that if you lose so many times, that people start talking about that.
“I think it’s a shock for everyone. For the players, for the journalists over here, for me. For everyone this is a shock that is very, very, very unexpected when you look at the quality we are having.
“Is it a lack of confidence? I didn’t see that in the first half. Of course, it is hard if you concede a goal straight into this game after losing 3-0.
“But the sort of mentality these players have shown on so many times since I’m here, came back in a way you would like to created chances. Kept them in their half.
“And after another setback after conceding 2-1, I also saw us creating chances again to score the 2-2.
“But at the end of the game, I did see that it maybe affected one or two players that we were three and 4-1 down, that’s true.”
However, Slot insisted he was not worried about his own future as he revealed that he had held talks with club bosses.
"I don’t agree with you that the quality [of Liverpool’s players] isn’t showing itself," he said. "I see enough moments that players show their quality but it doesn’t reflect in the score or in the results, that is clear.
"But no, I am not worried – what I mean with that is that my focus is on other things than worrying about my own position. I try to analyse [and] try to help the players as much as I can.
"And it is obvious that I don’t do it in the way that I did it last season because when you talk about individual errors, I think that is also something that comes from a team effort.
"So, again, I need to do better and that is what I am trying to do every single day, to improve the team, and that is where my main focus is, to be honest.
"Yeah (I talk to club bosses), but not in the sense that they tell me every single minute, ‘We support you, we support you, we support you’, but we talk a lot if we are winning, like last season, and if we are losing.
"Then they are helpful to me, to the team, so yes we do have those conversations but they don’t call me every single minute of the day to tell me that they still trust me.
"But we do have the normal conversations and in those conversations I feel the trust, but I haven’t spoken to them after this game yet, so let’s see."