Arne Slot ignited a civil war in the summer over Liverpool's transfer policy and had a massive clash with Richard Hughes.
The Dutchman's job is not safe by any stretch of the imagination at Anfield. Slot may have gone nine games unbeaten leading to Liverpool's visit to the Emirates later this week, but performances have been poor.
Draws with Fulham, Leeds United (twice) and Sunderland have been disappointing. Even the wins have been narrow and have come through a great struggle.
Slot doesn't seem to have an idea or a defined system when it comes to Liverpool's attacking play. He has steady the ship defensively but at the cost of Liverpool's attack.
Currently, he's got Liverpool playing a very basic system that has neither the backing of the fans, nor (probably) anyone else associated with the club.
But the issues are deeper at Anfield than just performances on the pitch. Liverpool's hierarchy have a very specific idea of not only how they want the club to play but how they want the club to be run by their head-coach.
Over the summer, Hughes and his recruitment team were keen for Rio Ngumoha and Trey Nyoni to be given bigger roles at first-team level following impressive performances in pre-season.
Ngumoha had just made five goal contributions in five games. Nyoni had also caught the eye and in previous seasons under Jurgen Klopp the same kind of performances would have led to more first-team opportunities during the regular campaign.
Stefan Bajcetic, Jarell Quansah and many others have benefitted from Klopp rewarding them after a strong pre-season.
But Slot was not of the same mindset.
He wanted Liverpool to loan Ngumoha after Luis Diaz was sold and pushed the Reds to pursue a move for Bradley Barcola or Malick Fofana.
During the heated clash, Anfield Watch understands Hughes refused to give in to Slot's demands and informed the club's head-coach that he would have to play Ngumoha and give him regular opportunities in the first-team.
This has been a source of contention between the hierarchy and Slot ever since. The Dutchman has refused to use Ngumoha despite insistence from Hughes and others.
The club's hierarchy has made it clear they expect academy players to be integrated into the first-team set-up. Slot insists he needs players for the now, and has no interest in working with the club's academy stars nor to try and develop them.
It's a stark contrast to Klopp, and it has created a civil war within the walls of the AXA training centre.
Liverpool's academy staff and hierarchy have made numerous attempts to try and get Slot more involved with younger players.
Anfield Watch understands the club tried to coordinate U21 sessions to take place simultaneously with the first-team and last month the club organised an academy showcase designed for Slot to have a look at the best talents in the academy.
Anfield Watch however understands that while some first-team coaches were present, Slot did not attend the showcase himself.
Hiring Brazilian Luiz Fernando Iubel as an individual coach in the summer was also an attempt to compensate for Slot's unwillingness to work with younger players.
Iubel's role at the moment is concentrated on working with those young players instead of Slot.
Hughes and Edwards believe a Liverpool head-coach not only has to be successful but they also have to be able to work and develop young talents from within the academy.
The club's entire transfer policy leans very heavily towards being able to sell academy assets for major profit as well as integrating young stars into the first-team squad to give the head-coach more options.
There's been growing concerns that should Slot stay at the helm long-term, Liverpool would be unable to successfully achieve both ambitions.
Now that results and performances are also below what is expected of the team, Slot's future is very much hanging on by the thinnest of threads.
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