Arne Slot must copy Jurgen Klopp’s GENIUS fix | OneFootball

Arne Slot, Jurgen Klopp has shown you the way forward. It's time to copy the genius Liverpool fix.

Liverpool are not clicking into gear right now. The Reds began the season with a string of wins but without looking particularly strong.

Now the wins aren't coming, with three consecutive defeats creating a strange atmosphere at Anfield. Liverpool spent all this money in the summer, rebuilding a title-winning team, but looks considerably worse right now.

That's not easy to fix. Not when Plan A has gone so far off track. Slot has tried different combinations of players but without too much success in terms of performance.

The thing is, though, we've been here before. We've been in a spot where Liverpool brought in expensive squad upgrades that unsettled the team.

Jurgen Klopp had to deal with it then and his incredible fix is exactly what liverpool need right now.

Jurgen Klopp's big fix

Go back to 2018 and Liverpool had just enjoyed a massive summer after reaching the UEFA Champions League final. In came Alisson Becker, Fabinho and Naby Keita as the Reds looked to upgrade.

Only, things weren't smooth. Fabinho and Keita were unable to gel quickly with Liverpool's squad and Klopp actually left Fabinho on the sidelines until the end of September.

When the Brazilian did come into the team, Klopp made another dramatic change. He switched his formation to a 4-2-3-1, believing Fabinho needed a midfielder sitting alongside him in order to work at first.

He didn't trust him to hold down the fort in his preferred 4-3-3 - not at first, anyway. Fabinho did not start a fixture in that system until the following March against Bayern Munich in a Champions League knockout clash.

Of course, Fabinho would nail the role down by then and go on to be one of the best we've ever seen there. But it took time and it took work. Until he was near-perfect, Klopp was happy to switch things up to stay solid.

That meant unconventional changes like Mo Salah at centre-forward and Roberto Firmino playing no.10. Though, it worked so well that Salah finished the season with 13 goals and five assists from 13 starts through the middle (per Understat).

Eventually, Liverpool clicked together with Fabinho and won the Champions League. The next season they dominated the Premier League.

And a similar change should happen right now. Liverpool are bedding in too many players who aren't used to their style of play.

So switch it up temporarily. Find a way that gets Florian Wirtz and the new full-backs clicking into gear, finding form at the club outside of the preferred system.

It's okay to move back to that system eventually but remaining so rigid with the 4-2-3-1 right now just isn't working. For now.