Mailbag: How should we judge Arne Slot’s second season?
Football Ramble
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4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Marcus, Luke and Jim try to have a reasoned discussion about Arne Slot’s reputation after a middling second season and the looming figure of Xabi Alonso - but we keep returning to Marcus’ undying love for gammon.
Plus, we long for the return of the purely vibes-based manager, wonder if it’s too late for Harry Wilson to join a bigger club and try to find some aesthetically delightful players who were actually bang average.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:25.2 | Good to have you here for the mailbag. |
| 0:26.7 | The mailie B, as some of you affectionately call it. |
| 0:29.5 | Remember, you can ask us anything for this show. |
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| 0:45.2 | Gentlemen, let's open the bag. |
| 0:48.8 | And another, |
| 0:49.5 | William, Winston. |
| 0:51.7 | Postman Ray. |
| 0:53.7 | Let's have a go. Paddy has been in touch on Insta and Paddy asks a this. If this was Arna Slot's first season in charge of Liverpool, how would it be viewed? |
| 1:05.9 | It's a really good question. It is. I suppose it's worth having a little sense check isn't it? So Liverpool currently sixth in the Premier League and fourth in the Champions League. I personally think that it would be viewed as a bit of a disaster, really, to be honest. I think it's tempting to look at it and think, oh, he'd have more kind of patience and more time allowed. But it's that run of defeats, isn't it? |
| 1:28.4 | I think starting in September, |
| 1:29.4 | they had a run of four Premier League defeats in a row. |
| 1:31.7 | Those who lost to Galatas around the Champions League |
| 1:33.5 | and lost three nil to Crystal Palace in the Carabal in that period. |
| 1:37.7 | And I think that kind of level of chaos |
| 1:42.7 | would be too much for a new manager to weather without people asking |
| 1:47.6 | serious questions about whether he's got the chops for the job. |
| 1:52.0 | Chops. |
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