It occurred at a different point in the season, but a Merseyside derby against Everton proved to be the final game in charge for one previous Liverpool manager. In early October 2015, Romelu Lukaku gave the home side a well-deserved point at Goodison Park, and Brendan Rodgers was fired.
His team finished tenth in the Premier League table, having won only four of their eleven games across all competitions in the early parts of the season. In fact, Rodgers’ 1-1 tie with Everton was almost definitely not the last straw.
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Jurgen Klopp was appointed just a few days after. Rodgers’ decision to leave Anfield, where he has been since June 2012, was plainly made before to the derby, Reported By Mirror News.
No such ruling has been made in Arne Slot’s case. And no matter how the first Merseyside derby at Hill Dickinson Stadium turns out, Slot will not be discounted.
And as long as Liverpool finishes in the top five and qualifies for the Champions League next season, he should not be fired in the summer.
Not only does Slot have credit from his first season in English football, but the circumstances that mitigated this poor performance are more serious than most people realize. It is improper to convey the magnitude of the impact of Diogo Jota’s unimaginably awful death, but it does put things in perspective.
On the pitch, Liverpool has had to cope with major injuries on a regular basis. Slot is now missing Alisson (hamstring injury), Conor Bradley (knee surgery), Giovanni Leoni (cruciate ligament tear), Wataru Endo (ankle ligament rupture), and, of course, Hugo Ekitike, who has a significant ankle injury.
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