Slot sets standard: 'The bar at Liverpool is always high' as Reds fight for top four and trophies | OneFootball

Arne Slot has said the 'bar at Liverpool is always high' after a stuttering second season at Anfield.

Slot won the title in his debut campaign with the club, becoming just the fifth manager to win thePremier League in his first season in England.

Liverpool have struggled to replicate those performances in 2025-26 and are currently sixth in the standings, with a battle on to secure Champions League qualification.

Speaking to the media ahead of this weekend's fixture against Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield, Slot was asked whether he felt he had set the bar high after a debut season of success.

The Dutchman insisted that the expectation at Liverpool should always be high, for whoever represents the club.

"The bar at Liverpool is always high, it has always been high and will always be high. We are a top club. The bar should be set high by the people around us, but we will set the bar just as high.

"Indeed, last season we were able to achieve one of the things we wanted to achieve - that was winning the league. We were also close to winning the League Cup, which we lost in the final against Newcastle.

"This season, of course, we are unable to win the league again but we are still in two cups - the Champions League and the FA Cup - where we are competing.

"What I want is that every single player gets the maximum out of every single training session and every game we are playing from now until the end of the season. That is the aim for me and should be the aim for the players and I am 100% sure that is the aim for the players because that is the only way to get the maximum out of what is there and what is in it for us.

"What that is exactly going to be [trophies?] is not always easy for us to say, sometimes you need a little bit of luck...margins at the level we are playing - Champions League,Premier League - are really small. We have to fight for those margins every single day to make them bigger and bigger and bigger.

"That was already the aim at the start of the season and that is even more the aim now."