Liverpool could make history with Arne Slot SACKING | OneFootball

Liverpool could make some history if they decide to sack Arne Slot. The Reds have literally never done this before.

Arne Slot is under a lot of pressure at the moment and it's easy to understand why. Liverpool have lost six of their last seven Premier League fixtures and things don't exactly look like improving imminently.

It's an unbelievable situation, given Slot won the Premier League title in his debut season. It's only been six months since we all celebrated that incredible win - now we're wondering if the Dutchman will still be at the helm by the time the anniversary comes around.

The next few months will be important. Liverpool know that change is necessary but that change doesn't mean to be getting rid of Slot.

The transfer window brings opportunity to switch things up, while we'd simply like to see a different system at play. But if nothing else works, Liverpool may have to pull the trigger.

And that would mean doing something the Reds have never done before.

Liverpool's managerial history

Liverpool have never sacked a manager (or head coach) that won the top-flight title, as pointed out by Jamie Carragher on Monday Night Football. Ever.

Jurgen Klopp stepped down, of course, and retired from management. Before him was Kenny Dalglish, who resigned as Liverpool boss around a year after his final title.

The only caveat there is that Dalglish returned to the dugout 20 years later and was sacked in his second spell. So technically that's the only time the Reds have done it, though it was a very different spell in charge.

Before the King was Joe Fagan, who retired. The same can be said about Bob Paisley and Bill Shankly before him.

George Kay was the manager to win the top flight before Shankly, doing so in 1947. He was still in the role when he retired in 1951.

Matt McQueen won it in 1923 but again, he retired in the role. That came after he'd lost a leg in a car accident, leaving him in poor health and leading to that retirement in 2918.

McQueen had taken over from David Ashworth, who won the title in 1922. Bizarrely, he decided to leave Liverpool the next season, with the Reds sitting at the top of the table, in order to take over at bottom-placed Oldham Athletic.

And then there was the legendary Tom Watson, who was the first manager in English football to deliver the first division title with two different clubs. He'd won three with Sunderland before moving to Liverpool in 1896, where he'd go on to twice win the top flight. Watson is also unique in that technically he never left the job - he died while still manager of the Reds in 1915.

So every manager who won the title with Liverpool left of their own volition (or died). Sacking Slot would make history for the club but it's history absolutely no one wants to make.