Slot admits Liverpool season “not good enough” but slams narrative over spending, cites net spend and injuries | OneFootball

Arne Slot has admitted Liverpool's season has not been 'good enough' but has questioned the narrative around his team.

Liverpool lost 2-1 at Brighton on Saturday in a damaging defeat to the club's Champions League ambitions. The champions have struggled during a disappointing defence of thePremier League and sit fifth in the table after a 10th loss of the league campaign.

It's the most defeats that Liverpool have suffered in a single season since 2015-16, despite a record-breaking spend last summer.

However, Slot has said that critics continue to overlook the context of Liverpool's recruitment, including a substantial amount recouped from sales and injuries to key players this season.

"For all the people who are saying this, because no-one in England is used to the fact that there are also clubs that are selling players," he said at hispost-match press conference.

"So usually in England when a club is buying [for] £450m, which we did, that's adding that to the already great team you are having. But this club has a different model.

"That no-one wants to see that and no-one wants to understand this, that I can also understand, because fans of other teams or certain pundits don't want to tell you that we've sold for £300m.

"Now if then the £150m player is never available, that's already one thing. If Giovanni Leoni has never been available because of his injury, that is already the second thing. So now we're already going underneath what we've sold.

"Jeremie Frimpong is recently much more and more available and [Giorgi] Mamardashvili was one of the other signings for £450m, the second goalkeeper. It makes complete sense if you win the league last season and you spent £150m, not £450m, that expectations are high and those expectations were high for the pundits, for the media, for me, for the fans.

"But at our club we are also looking at the situation and the things we had, the challenge we had during this season and then we might be a bit more realistic why this season has gone the way it has gone. But still it's not good enough. No matter how many excuses I can come up with, it's still not good enough, the position we're in right now."