{"id":269368,"date":"2026-01-06T01:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/269368\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:07:09","slug":"arne-is-not-daft-john-aldridge-not-ruling-out-potential-slot-sacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/269368\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Arne is not daft’ – John Aldridge not ruling out potential Slot sacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arne Slot will realise that he\u2019s not immune from losing his job at Liverpool if they fail to qualify for next season\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to John Aldridge, who\u2019s been giving his view on where the Reds boss currently stands amid a difficult sophomore campaign at Anfield, with genuine hope of retaining the Premier League title long since extinguished and fourth place realistically the best we can aim for now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re only five days into 2026 but two top-flight head coaches have already been sacked since the turn of the year, with Enzo Maresca departing Chelsea and Ruben Amorim jettisoned by Manchester United, currently the two clubs in closest pursuit of LFC for the final guaranteed Champions League berth in England.<\/p>\n

Aldridge suggests Slot isn\u2019t immune from Liverpool sack<\/p>\n

Having seen a couple of Liverpool\u2019s rivals pull the trigger in pursuit of a top-four finish, Aldridge believes that Slot isn\u2019t bulletproof from suffering a similar fate despite the Anfield hierarchy traditionally being far more patient than their counterparts at Stamford Bridge and Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

In his latest\u00a0Liverpool Echo<\/a> column, the former Reds striker wrote:\u00a0\u2018Chelsea sacked Maresca. United have sacked Amorim. They both know how important it is to get in the top four. They\u2019re doing it now rather than later to have a go at getting in the top four. They are making the change before it is too late. We should be wary of both of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The owners have kept faith with Arne despite our difficult season, but if we hadn\u2019t won the league last year, it might have been different for him. He might have lost his job too.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aldridge added:\u00a0\u2018We\u2019re not a club who sack managers easily. We don\u2019t do that, we\u2019re not United, but Arne is not daft. If he doesn\u2019t deliver, that\u2019s the way the game is. He knows it; we all know it. Let\u2019s hope he can turn it around, but we have to see some signs.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Enzo(Photo by Alex Livesey\/Getty Images)Now isn\u2019t the time to sack Slot, but credit in the bank isn\u2019t infinite<\/p>\n

Slot has already endured scrutiny over his position this season \u2013 after Liverpool\u2019s 4-1 drubbing at home to PSV Eindhoven in November (their ninth defeat in 12 games), Ian Doyle opined<\/a> that the Dutchman had \u2018one week to keep his job\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Reds are unbeaten in nine matches since that Anfield debacle six weeks ago, but frustrating draws against Sunderland, Leeds (twice) and Fulham have prevented us from building a comfortable gap to the similarly inconsistent Chelsea and Man United behind us.<\/p>\n

Aldridge is correct in saying that Liverpool are typically much more patient than those two clubs \u2013 since Alex Ferguson left Old Trafford in 2013, he\u2019s had six permanent successors in the hotseat, while the Blues have had nine (including two spells for Frank Lampard), whereas the Reds have had just Brendan Rodgers, Jurgen Klopp and Slot.<\/p>\n

The 47-year-old is unlikely to be dismissed mid-season, given the frantic need for the right successor to come in as quickly as possible, but he\u2019ll realise that failure to qualify for the Champions League could be the prompt for change, especially after beginning the campaign as reigning champions.<\/p>\n

We wouldn\u2019t be in favour of sacking the man who led us to Premier League glory nine months ago, but nor is his credit in the bank infinite. Hopefully he can instigate a prolonged winning run in the second half of the season and pull away from the chasing pack in the hunt for a top-four finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot will realise that he\u2019s not immune from losing his job at Liverpool if they fail to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-269368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115845480088513561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}