Could Liverpool sack Arne Slot? That is a question that would have sounded outrageous a month ago.
After winning the Premier League in his first season at Anfield, Slot was allowed to spend £446.5 million on summer signings during a record-breaking transfer window.
Slot’s side then started their second campaign with five consecutive top-flight victories. The Reds were not at their brilliant best and needed late goals in four of those five games, but things still looked pretty rosy nonetheless.
However, since then Liverpool have lost four games in a row, including a 2-1 home defeat by Manchester United on Sunday.
Fans call for Liverpool to sack Arne Slot
Liverpool’s loss to Manchester United at Anfield sparked widespread calls on social media for Arne Slot to be sacked.
Many of the #SlotOut messages were from fans of rival teams, taking their opportunity to troll Liverpool during their worst run of form since 2014.
But there were also plenty of messages from genuine Liverpool supporters calling for Slot to leave.
“Just sack Slot,” tweeted one Reds fan. “The earlier the better.”
Another added: “Get Slot out, I’m done with him.”
Arne Slot is facing some calls to be sacked after overseeing four straight Liverpool losses
A third message from a different fan read: “Slot has 0 tactics, no build up, no rhythm, no nothing, get the f*** out of my club.”
One fan even suggested that the credit for Liverpool’s title win last season should go to former manager Jurgen Klopp, rather than Slot. “Liverpool fans we gotta apologize to Klopp,” their post began.
“That man won us that Premier League last season, this one is actually Slot’s season and team. Get that man out, before it’s too late.”
But the Slot out messages were met with significant pushback from many other Liverpool fans.
One wrote: “People saying Slot out give your heads a f****** wobble.”
Odds slashed on Arne Slot in Premier League sack race
After seeing Liverpool lose four games in a row, the betting odds on Arne Slot being sacked have significantly shortened.
Slot is now priced at just 16/1 to be the next Premier League manager to leave his post. Only six managers have shorter odds than Slot at present. They are Vitor Pereira (2/1), Ruben Amorim (4/1), Daniel Farke (8/1), Keith Andrews (10/1), Scott Parker (12/1) and Marco Silva (12/1).
How much would it cost Liverpool to sack Arne Slot?
As Arne Slot is reportedly earning £6.6 million per year and is under contract until June 2027, it would likely cost Liverpool around £11m to sack him now.
That would make him Liverpool’s second most expensive manager sacking ever, after Brendan Rodgers, who cost £15.6m to get rid of in 2015.
Liverpool have spent an estimated £50.8m on compensation for manager sackings in the Premier League era — just under a third of Chelsea’s £156m spend on sacked managers.
Will Liverpool sack Arne Slot?
It would be a shock if Arne Slot was sacked in 2025, but it is not impossible.
Should Liverpool’s losing run continue for much longer, pressure will build and the owners will likely start considering their options.
Could Jurgen Klopp come back to Liverpool if Arne Slot gets sacked?
Club legend Jurgen Klopp has refused to rule out one day returning to his old job as Liverpool manager.
Klopp, who left Anfield in May 2024 after nearly nine years in charge — placing him fifth on the list of the longest-serving Premier League managers — was a recent guest on The Diary Of A CEO podcast.
Klopp told host Steven Bartlett: “I said I will never coach a different team in England so that means, if [I did return], then it’s Liverpool.
“So, yeah, theoretically it is possible.”
Former Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was a recent guest on The Diary Of A CEO podcast
Asked what it might take for him to want to go back to Liverpool, Klopp replied: “I don’t even know exactly. I love what I do now. I don’t miss coaching. I don’t. I do coach but it’s just different, it’s not players.
“I don’t miss it. I don’t miss standing in the rain for two-and-a-half or three hours. I also don’t miss going to press conferences three times a week.
“Having 10 or 12 interviews a week, I don’t miss that. I don’t. I don’t miss being in the dressing room. I coached around 1,080 games so I was in the dressing room very, very often.
“I don’t want to die in the dressing room. It’s these kind of things. I’m 58. From your perspective that might be old, but from other perspectives, it’s not that old.
“That means I could make a decision in a few years. I don’t know. Do I have to make a decision today? I will not coach again, but thank God I do not have to do that, I can just see what the future brings.”
