Published: 12:15, 6 April 2026 | Updated: 12:17, 6 April 2026

It's results that will get managers sacked but sometimes attitude can accelerate that process. This is the reality and the fear that stalks Liverpool manager Arne Slot as he travels to Paris with his team.

Slot is deep in sacking territory now. The excuses – rarely articulated by Slot but based in truth all the same – that have served as mitigating circumstances all season still stand.

He lost three-quarters of a Premier League winning strike force in one summer and then – in mind, body and soul – he lost Mo Salah, too. His big summer signing, Alexander Isak, has spent his debut Anfield season short of match fitness and then with a broken leg.

But with the season’s end almost upon us, Liverpool’s decline has gone beyond all that.

As was evidenced at Manchester City on Saturday, Slot now presides over a group of players no longer willing or able to consistently do the very basics of the game for him.

When you get to that stage as a manager, the...