Mikel Arteta is seventh best Premier League manager ever<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI also understood that Arne Slot is not very keen to go to Ajax at this point in his career.\u201d<\/p>\n
Slot\u2019s decision to stay at Liverpool comes after the Premier League club\u2019s owners, Fenway Sports Group (FSG), decided to stick with the Dutchman despite this season\u2019s disappointment.<\/p>\n
Journalist David Ornstein said on The Athletic FC podcast in mid-April: \u201cAll of our information is that FSG, the ownership, the sporting hierarchy at Liverpool \u2013 they intend to stick with Arne Slot.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the conversations I\u2019ve had \u2013 even if there\u2019s no Champions League football \u2013 that\u2019s the intention.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, former Tottenham Hotspur striker Gary Lineker believes that FSG could sack Slot at the end of the season and make former Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso his replacement.<\/p>\n
Alonso is without a managerial job at the moment following his departure from Real Madrid in January 2026.<\/p>\n
Liverpool were keen on appointing Alonso as their manager when Klopp stepped down at the end of the 2023\/24 campaign.<\/p>\n
However, Alonso decided to stay at Bayer Leverkusen for one more season before taking the Madrid managerial job in the summer of 2025.<\/p>\n
Lineker said on The Rest Is Football podcast: \u201cI would agree with that [that Slot should get the chance to turn it back around],\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if we saw Xabi Alonso there next season, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised. I agree with you, but it\u2019s a brutal business this management game.\u201d<\/p>\n
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