Slot has addressed speculation regarding his future at Anfield, maintaining that missing out on Europe’s elite competition should not automatically lead to his dismissal. Liverpool currently find themselves in a precarious position in the Premier League table, trailing Chelsea by four points and Manchester United by five in the race for a top-five finish ahead of a crucial trip to Sunderland on Wednesday night.
Given the club's massive spending splurge in the transfer market last summer, failure to qualify would be seen as a disaster. However, Slot believes the club's owners, Fenway Sports Group, and sporting director Richard Hughes will take a holistic view of the campaign. He pointed to the 2022-23 season under Jurgen Klopp, where the club kept faith with the German despite finishing outside the top four, a decision that laid the foundations for a 20th league title two years later under Slot’s own command.
"That is again a difficult question for me to answer because I don’t decide on my future," Slot said when asked if his job was on the line. "The only thing I do know is that it happened before, recently, and it didn’t affect the future of that manager. But that doesn’t guarantee anything, of course.
"In general, [with] managers, especially at this club — maybe somewhere else it is mainly, but not only, about results — they also look at the progress the players make, the progress the team makes, the circumstances are sometimes taken into account."