Arne Slot is expected to remain Liverpool manager going into the 2026/27 campaign, reports Sky Sports.
The Dutchman has come under immense pressure ahead of the summer transfer window, with the Reds trailing outside the top four.
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However, it’s understood that securing Champions League football will be enough to keep the head coach in his current role.
Arne Slot is safe as Liverpool manager
Vinny O’Connor told Sky Sports (via X) that Slot should be granted another season as Liverpool manager, presuming that the club secures Champions League football.
Arne Slot is expected to continue as Liverpool manager next season, as the club close in on Champions League qualification 🔴 pic.twitter.com/EmIZjWRnEH
— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) April 21, 2026
This comes amid the perception of the 2025/26 season being a transitional one following a number of personnel changes. Not to forget, or downplay, either the tragedy of Diogo Jota’s passing ahead of the campaign.
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However, with the Merseyside giants looking increasingly likely to clinch Champions League football (via a European Performance Spot), it seems Slot will be given ample opportunity to prove his worth once more.
Does Slot deserve to avoid sack fate?
Does Slot deserve to avoid the sack at Anfield this summer?
To be completely fair to the 47-year-old, he’s been hit with a number of mitigating circumstances after helping the Reds lift the Premier League title last term.
Let’s not forget we’ve virtually had no pace on the flanks this season, with Mo Salah’s form falling off a cliff and the recruitment team having lacked the foresight to anticipate the impact of Luis Diaz’s departure.
| Arne Slot’s record in 2024/25 | Arne Slot’s record in 2025/26 |
| 56 games | 52 games |
| 38 wins | 27 wins |
| 9 draws | 7 draws |
| 9 defeats | 18 defeats |
| 2.2 points per game | 1.69 points per game |
Can we see a world in which granting Arne Slot more pace and fresh legs on the flanks helps steer Liverpool in the right direction?
Yes, of course.
But at this point, it feels like there’s not the same level of belief in the manager as there once was. It feels like we’ve taken things too far.
And we have to wonder just how much Liverpool might regret not making a change this summer when you’ve got exciting candidates on the market like Xabi Alonso.
Let’s not forget we’ve virtually had no pace on the flanks this season, with Mo Salah’s form falling off a cliff
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Let’s remember we’ve virtually had no football sense this season, with 24/25 services provided to Mo Salah totally falling off a cliff
It’s a low blow to attack your best player from 24/25 when he is being redeployed in a new position with his usual source of services from 433 totally scrapped. Slot can experiment with this for a number of games and when he realize this is not working, just revert back to what did work. His ego to detach from klopp system destroyed him. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.
Very well said, benching your top player does not do much for their morale or that of the club, and fans. My heart went out to Mo he deserved so much better than that. ❤️YNWA❤️
Sums up charlatan owners FSG. We get 5th and champions league and they are content.
Some of the performances this season and the way we’ve lost games has been abysmal. We haven’t seen this kind of decline since the days of Rodgers and Hodgson. We are now miles away from the football we played under klopp, nowhere near good enough to win anything. I fully expect the decline to continue into next season, slot will be sacked and Alonso will have slipped through our fingers.
It is without doubt clueless ownership.
The football club is a total shambles top to bottom, from the owners FSG, the sporting director Richard Hughes, to the manager slot, who couldn’t organise a brothel.
Carry on we deserve to sink.
This season my enjoyment of football has been sucked out of me by the way Slot has set us up to play. We need new legs on the wings and a new brain driving the team with spirit
Be prepared for lower shirt sales and lower viewership next season! I’ll give him the chance to change my mind at the beginning of next season but if the drab boring slow football continues past October I’ll be turning out for the season.
I’m not sure why people are getting worked up. Sky Sports heard from Jamie Carragher that he heard some noise from within Liverpool that if Slot makes the top 5, he’ll stay.
I’m sorry, but that’s not reliable. That’s basically stating that a reporter at Sky Sports who was looking for something to fill in the time had heard a guy who knows a guy that somebody told me that you had a boyfriend who looked like a girlfriend who I had in February of last yer.
You are right, but the problem is, this club has a history of being indecisive and subsequently missing out on targets (Semenya, Cherki, Guhei etc) or paying 75m for VVD, when they could have got him for 15m when at Celtic, so given there are 2 great managers available right now in Irola and Alonso you can understand why fans are getting anxious because keeping this manager who is (with his own team) completely out of his depth, is worrying. I believe if he is in place next season we may get conference football, but most importantly, the players we need will not touch us with a barge pole. The owners need to remember getting up the league takes time and investment but the fall can be overnight.
We like a bos red sox american baseball national team fan mess up style face up now with fsg fuckings basterds and dickheads owner is billy hodgor and john williams henry plus thomas or tom werner
What happening sameway fsg fucking wouldn’t lister us but why we sameway back at fucking fsg now in next season