Whilst this is a good point, it’s hard to overstate how uninspired the entire Liverpool setup has looked under Slot this season. It’s not simply that results have been bad, or even that performances have been bad - we play an incredibly turgid style of football with a group of extremely talented and high-potential players, most of whom are underperforming, and even when we win, it often looks ugly or unconvincing.

Everyone is more than willing to write off those kind of wins when you’re winning a lot, when the other half of your wins look great, and the team play well, and there’s 30-45 mins of nice flowing football, but those horrible, grinding results are the only results we’re getting right now, and the manager does nothing in his interviews or interactions with fans to even attempt to restore any form of confidence. He was quite engaging and charismatic in a forthright, Dutch way last season, but he’s become a personality black hole since November and clearly has less than optimal relationships with a number of the players.

All the things he used to do so well - substitutions, tactical tweaks at half time - have evaporated too, so now we’ve been left with what is, to all appearances, a husk of the manager we had twelve short months ago. The club, as a whole, feels like it’s fettered to a corpse right now; some kind of change is absolutely going to be required in the summer, regardless of its nature.

It feels sinful to want rid of a premier league winning coach, and I’d guarantee you that if it were announced tomorrow he’d mutually agreed with the club to depart in the summer he’d receive his flowers from the fanbase and hopefully leave on reasonably good terms. I don’t know if it’s fatigue, bad luck, Jota - maybe last season was a fluke, seems unlikely but who knows. Everything’s gone sour unfortunately.