The Dutch boss has been under immense pressure after overseeing nine defeats from Liverpool’s last 12 games, the club’s worst run of form in 72 years. Slot batted away suggestions that his job was under threat despite shifting the blame away from his players to take full responsibility for this ruinous sequence of results.

Premier League champions Liverpool travel to face West Ham with the pressure starting to build on Arne Slot after last weekend’s loss to Nottingham Forest was compounded by a humiliating 4-1 defeat to PSV in Europe.

Alexander Isak scored and Florian Wirtz was the best player on the pitch as Liverpool returned to winning ways against West Ham.

Did they even need him? Spending £125m on another striker just seemed downright frivolous. Yet, after Liverpool were so listless and unimaginative in attack at Burnley, before Mohamed Salah’s most fortunate of get-out-of-jail stoppage-time penalties ...

Mohamed Salah has been criticised for his performance in Liverpool's defeat to PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League

Liverpool superstar Mohamed Salah has surprisingly been beaten to the 2025 African Footballer of the Year prize, despite being the continent’s highest-ranked player in the recent Ballon d’Or vote. Instead, the latest annual CAF award has gone to Paris Saint-Germain full back Achraf Hakimi.

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Arne Slot discusses the decision to leave Mohamed Salah on the bench as Liverpool beat West Ham United 2-0 at the London Stadium

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GOAL ranks Liverpool's biggest underperformers during their rotten run of results, from star forward Mohamed Salah to captain Virgil van Dijk