Edwards, Hughes discuss short-term plan to 'stop the rot' at Liverpool with Slot under pressure

Liverpool head advisor Arne Slot is under significant pressure wearing Michael Edwards and Richard Hughes clutching a seminar this morning, according to records.

The Reds languished their seventh Premier League loss of the period on Saturday as speedily as Bournemouth overcome them 3-2 in the dying embers of the arcade.

Liverpool went 2-0 down within 33 minutes as speedily as Evanilson and Alex Jimenez scored for the hosts yet purposes from Virgil van Dijk and Dominik Szoboszlai in the second half evened it up.

But, Amine Adli scored in the 5th minute of second-half injury time to impart Bournemouth unanimously three times wearing fourth-put Liverpool now falling short to win in their last five Premier League components.

After the fit, Slot – who outlined it as a “spiteful arcade” – recommended to the fatigue of his players as an pardon for the loss after Liverpool overcome Marseille 3-0 in the Winners League in midweek.

Slot told reporters: “It is a spiteful arcade if you lose in added time after unborn ago from 2-0 down at half-time.

“I think it was lone 5-10 minutes in the first half whereby we didn’t have uncensored readjust.

“We tinkered wearing them nicely a few times, yet we conceded twice, and we went down to 10 males, so that doesn’t guidance.

“It felt to me that if we were able to administer up the 2-1, we would definitely have been ago in the arcade.

“We were most the time in swearing stances yet we were 2-0 down, and it did feel to me that we were thieving part in rating and administer earn exploit of ago in the arcade.

“It is mart to say that in the last 10 minutes it was added responsive, yet I can see that my players were taxed since we lone had two days in in between each arcade.”

There have been rumours that Slot is under pressure from the Liverpool pecking commandment to revolve around their form and administer sure they peg a Winners League qualification place.

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As well as now a relied on X account rendered up of ‘five elite reporters’ insists that Fenway Sporting activities Team’s CEO of Football Edwards and Liverpool illustrating off supervisor Hughes are clutching a seminar today to testimonial a brief-term strategy to protect versus the rot.

In a vague update, hinting that Slot can be switched speedily, the account devised on X: ‘Exclusive. Michael Edwards and Richard Hughes are pioneering Liverpool FC’s football operations. Our resources say they are fully aware of the predicament at @LFC and schemes are being exert place to protect versus the rot. A brief-term strategy is being debated this morning.’

Before, relied on journalist David Lynch, who has been reporting on Liverpool for years, urged that the Reds prefer to administer earn exploit of to the end of the period in days gone by readjusting Slot.

Lynch told Anfield Index earlier this week: “They plainly, plainly want to administer earn exploit of to the end of the period wearing Slot if they can. They wear’t want to administer a mid-period managerial reclamation since who execute you administer earn exploit of as the interim? It would definitely plainly be closer to administer the managerial reclamation in the summertime.

“I think his future’s already bundle, to be passionate. It’s been so pronounced, the refute, for such a long time. It is lone a skin of retrieving to the summertime, albeit if he starts to lose 6, 7 on the bounce anew, he will definitely administer earn exploit of bulleted since they’ll feel obliged to go for an interim. They wear’t want to reclamation; they actually would definitely prefer not to.

“After that it’s sort of go for a manager then in the summertime. Human beings are chatting around ‘go and administer earn exploit of Xabi Alonso’, yet he’s not gonna want to tramp into a obligation now, so it’d have to be an interim, and I wear’t think there’s a nice prearrangement out there.”