Arne Slot gets radical solution to rescue season as Liverpool agreement reached

Liverpool are 12th in the Premier League table and 13th in the Champions League league phase with manager Arne Slot is under pressure to turn things around at Anfield

Liverpool’s players have been urged to take a trip to the pub in order to help get their season back on track. A campaign that is fast unravelling took another turn for the worse on Wednesday night when the Reds were beaten 4-1 by PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League.

Slot’s side have lost nine of their last 12 matches, and this is the worst run of form the club have been on for 70 years. The Dutchman now finds himself under huge pressure to turn things around.

And as Slot searches for solutions to Liverpool’s problems, Jurgen Klinsmann, who once held talks with former Liverpool owner Tom Hicks over replacing Rafa Benitez at Anfield, believes a trip to the pub for a team bonding session could help get things back on track.

Speaking to ESPN, he said: “It is a difficult task for any manager when you are in a negative spiral and tasked to turn it around. Do you look deep into your roster, look deep into your individual players and try to figure out why they are not performing at their usual level?

“There are different ways. Some coaches do more training on the pitch, maybe they overwork them. Some coaches do less and say: ‘Let’s go out to the pub, have a couple of beers and get the spirit back!’

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“It’s a mental problem, a mental block that leads to the fact they lose the one-v-one battles, they are always a step too late getting into the challenges and are not convinced of finishing things off. Maybe they are thinking we overdid it on big transfers in the summer and we have too many so-called future stars on our roster because, at the end of the day, only 11 can play.

“You have three, four, five, six guys who are used to playing and they are not happy. When things go well, everything is quiet, everyone is all right and nobody says a bad word.

“But when things go wrong, behind the scenes people talk to each other, players talk to each other and you have to stop the negative spiral. I’m sure he will try to do everything he can to stop it, and then you can only come back with wins.

“They need a far more physical approach than they did recently. They need to fight first, then play wonderful football.”

Agreeing with the ex-Germany striker and manager, former Chelsea midfielder Craig Burley said: “I’m being serious now. People might think it was something done 20 or 30 years ago and it certainly was, but sometimes it’s more than dragging players on the training field and slogging them to death.

“Sometimes it’s as simple as that camaraderie. I know people laugh about it, but sometimes players need that.

“There’s a pressure and you need everyone to be together. Sometimes it’s not double sessions on the training field, sometimes it is going for something for a few beers, chilling and chatting about how you’re going to get those relationships again.

“What they’re doing at the moment is not working and if you don’t have the bonding and camaraderie, you’re screwed from the start.”

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