Liverpool have won 70% of their matches in all competitions this season and currently sit second in the Premier League, yet Arne Slot’s reigning champions still find themselves barrelling towards crisis.
The Reds enjoyed a fairy-tale campaign under their Dutch commander in 2024–25 and an unprecedented summer of spending promised the establishment of a dynasty. However, Liverpool’s loosening of the purse strings has had the opposite effect, unbalancing the side that waltzed to Premier League glory last term.
