Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher says Arne Slot only has one week to save his job after overseeing a dire run of nine losses in 12 matches in all competitions.
The Reds lost 4-1 to PSV in the Champions League on Wednesday and face West Ham, Sunderland and Leeds next in the Premier League. Liverpool is currently in the bottom half of the domestic standings and its performances have fallen off a cliff in the last few months, so soon after becoming champions.
"Arne Slot has a week to save his job," Carragher has written in his Daily Telegraph column. "It is hard to believe that sentence is being written.
"No matter how much goodwill the manager has, Liverpool Football Club cannot sustain the drop in standards witnessed over the past three months.
"No one knows better than me how much that reality will be hurting everyone connected with my old club. Liverpool do not willingly sack coaches, especially those that bring great success.
"Since Bill Shankly arrived in 1959, there has been a union between the manager and supporters which feels unbreakable once a league title is delivered. Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan, Sir Kenny Dalglish and Jurgen Klopp left on their own terms. They earned that right.
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 26: Arne Slot, Manager of Liverpool, reacts 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 Carl Recine/Getty Images)
Liverpool manager Arne Slot is under mounting pressure (Image: Carl Recine, Getty Images)
"After Slot won the Premier League in his first season, he seemed destined for a long stay on Merseyside too. Now, just six months later, he is hanging on."
Carragher spoke to Slot after the first Premier League game of the season, expressing his concern about how open the Reds were. Since then, that problem — and the results — have only become substantially worse.
"Since the start of this season, Slot has seemed intent on taking the team in a direction which is not in Liverpool's winning tradition," Carragher continued. "It felt wrong on day one of this season, and it has led to a mess right now.
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"It is incredible that Liverpool have since spent £450m to create an unbalanced squad, lacking enough cover on the wings and at center-back.
"After selling Luis Diaz, Liverpool have come into this season without genuine competition for [Mohamed] Salah and Cody Gakpo. It's all well and good asking for one or both to be left out, but who replaces them?
"Signing two expensive number nines was wrong, too. It is like betting on two horses in the same race.
"You do not buy a striker for £80m and then two weeks later another for £125m, because if they are competing for the same position, only one can win. It can't work.
Hugo Ekitike and Alexander Isak before the Champions League clash between Eintracht Frankfurt and Liverpool.
Liverpool strikers Hugo Ekitike and Alexander Isak. (Image: Liverpool FC via Getty Images)
"That error was compounded by the failure to pay whatever it took to sign Marc Guehi.
"For the sake of another £10m, Liverpool may lose over £100m because they will not be in next season's Champions League unless they sign at least one centre-back in January.
"If Slot is still in charge by then, he will have started some kind of recovery."
Liverpool.com says: There is no doubt that results need to change soon. Things cannot go on like this for Liverpool, with the group of players available collectively performing well below par. At the weekend, there needs to be more signs of a fight.