This snippet from the athletic piece was interesting in that it suggests people at the club were trying to reduce the power and influence of the manager. Wonder who that could be ?
Arne Slot is not without personality but unlike his predecessor, Jurgen Klopp, he did not try to affect you with words, gestures or particularly strong stances. This was, it should be stressed, all a part of the grand strategy at Liverpool where the cult of the manager either died or has taken a nap since the departure of Klopp, whose force was so great that he was left with little structure to support him. Slot, as head coach, was more of a middle-manager; someone who acted with the objectivity of a civil servant and the occasional bluntness of a corrections officer. There was little else to love Slot for: he and the system around him made it entirely about the football and the football alone. When the football is bad, this is what happens.