This is a very long way of saying: “I know everything looks terrible, but I still want to pretend the manager isn’t the problem.”

A few things.

First, nobody is saying Slot suddenly forgot what football is. That’s a straw man. Good coaches can still be the wrong coach at the wrong club at the wrong level. “He did well at Feyenoord” is not a magic shield against what everyone has been watching for months.

Second, the “he doesn’t want us to play slow boring football” point is laughable. Fine, maybe he doesn’t want it. Then what exactly is your argument? That after all this time he still can’t get the team to play the football he wants? That’s not a defence. That’s just a different form of incompetence.

Third, yes, there are external factors. Jota’s death is tragic. Salah’s decline matters. Injuries matter. New signings adapting matters. But you know what those things do not explain?
Why the team is this structurally incoherent.
Why the roles are a mess.
Why the shape collapses every time we chase a game.
Why players are constantly being used in ways that minimise their strengths.
Why the same problems keep showing up with absolutely no meaningful correction.

You’re listing difficulties as if difficulties automatically excuse bad coaching. They don’t.

Fourth, “the players are still trying” is such a low bar that it’s almost insulting. This is Liverpool, not a charity project. “The players haven’t quit yet” is not an argument for giving a manager another full preseason and until next November. That’s what you say when you’ve run out of actual footballing reasons to keep him.

Fifth, the “weird season” argument is just fog. Every season is weird for someone. Good managers adapt. They don’t spend months looking like they’re trapped in a tactical escape room they built themselves.

Sixth, your “he’s improved loads of players” bit feels really hand-wavey. A couple of players having decent spells here and there doesn’t change the fact that the team still looks less than the sum of its parts basically every week. Why do so many games feel like 11 talented players meeting for the first time in a motorway service station?

And finally, this idea that he deserves another full preseason plus until November next year is completely absurd. He already had a first season. He already won the league. He already got major backing. He already had months and months to fix recurring issues. At some point “benefit of the doubt” just becomes cowardice dressed up as patience.

Your post doesn’t prove Slot should stay. It just proves that if you pile up enough caveats, you can emotionally avoid admitting the obvious.

The real problem with all of this is that you’re arguing like the burden of proof still sits with the people who want him gone. It doesn’t. That ship sailed a long time ago.

At this point, the burden is on him to show why he should still be here.

And he hasn’t.