If Arne Slot isn't to blame, one man absolutely is | OneFootball

Arne Slot is going through a difficult patch here. But if he's not to blame for it, it must be one other man.

Liverpool dropped points at home to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday and they fully deserved to. The Reds were awful against an opponents where three points should have been routine.

Spurs, after all, are a rotten team. Just about everything that could go wrong with them has done but Liverpool made them look like a fair match.

So what does that say?

The pressure is on Arne Slot, naturally, as he's the one in charge of how the team plays. Liverpool have been poor all season long, in truth, and some patches have been even worse than this.

There's a real danger of falling into the UEFA Conference League the way things are going, as Dominik Szoboszlai pointed out post-match. And yet, many remain convinced that Slot isn't the problem.

Well if he's not, we know who is.

Richard Hughes's handiwork

Slot was given a group of players to work with this summer. It came after a mass overhaul as the club spent more money than at any other point in its history.

But that spend hasn't worked. It means two things are possible: Slot isn't able to get enough from this squad, or the squad built for him was not good enough.

And if it's the latter? Well, that's an extraordinary mishandling of £400m. It would truly be the most incompetent job of anyone in Liverpool's history.