Jamie Carragher has sent a warning to Arne Slot
Jamie Carragher has warned Arne Slot he faces a challenge to get Liverpool supporters back onside after his side were booed off against Tottenham Hotspur. Richarlison’s late equaliser sparked an exodus before the remaining Reds supporters booed their team off the field on the final whistle.
Speaking after the game, Slot said he didn’t blame Liverpool fans for venting their frustration at the full-time whistle. But Carragher has warned Slot that the draw with Spurs, along with the defeats to Wolves and Galatasaray, has brought a shift in the fanbase.
"The bigger point is how worrying it is for the manager, and I think there is a difference between most support in terms of what we see online and social media compared to the match-going fans,” he said on Monday Night Football.
"And I think for a lot of this season when people have turned on Arne Slot, the match-going fans have stuck with him.
"You think even what happened with Mo Salah the next game was away in the San Siro, and they (the fans) were chanting for Arne Slot. And it is not easy for a Liverpool crowd to turn on a manager who has won a title 12 months before.
"But I felt there was a big shift yesterday in terms of how the crowd felt in terms of their Liverpool team and their manager.
"The booing at the end, that was proper booing, that was a really unhappy and disgruntled fanbase and I think it is going to be really difficult to get them back.
"Once you lose that crowd, it is very difficult. Now something really special could happen in terms of a Champions League, or maybe you win the FA Cup and you qualify for the Champions League.
"But I think a lot of the supporters have gone on the back of what has happened in this last week, especially one point from Wolves and Tottenham and losing the first-leg to Galatasaray in the Champions League, and I am not that confident, certainly as I was a few weeks ago, about going through against Galatasaray.”
Carragher also believes Liverpool's biggest problem is their pressing, saying: "I think they're really deep. I said on commentary yesterday that they are lots of things wrong with this Liverpool team, nothing's working. But the biggest thing that stands out for me that Liverpool have lost is the press.
"Pressing wasn't just a Jurgen Klopp thing, but the whole point of people saying, 'It's tough going to Anfield,' is not that Liverpool are always amazing on the ball or got the best players. It was that it's a tight pitch, the fans are on top of you, Liverpool get after you and win the ball back and go forward – and that is something that is sorely lacking and is the biggest problem at Liverpool right now."
Before he added: "They're not a team, they're a team of individuals. Quality players, yes, but just been dropped in with no cohesion.
“You can see that on the clips and that's what they lost. That is the most important thing for Liverpool; I don't think of some fancy team with superstar players. It's always been about top players but being a team."
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