Liverpool have won 70% of their matches in all competitions this season and currently sit second in the Premier League, yet Arne Slot’s reigning champions still find themselves barrelling towards crisis.
The Reds enjoyed a fairy-tale campaign under their Dutch commander in 2024–25 and an unprecedented summer of spending promised the establishment of a dynasty. However, Liverpool’s loosening of the purse strings has had the opposite effect, unbalancing the side that waltzed to Premier League glory last term.
Liverpool’s seven-game winning streak at the start of the campaign proved quite the red herring. Good fortune sustained a run of dramatic late victories, but luck has since run out. The Reds lost three games on the spin prior to the October international break for the first time since 2023, sucker punched by the last-gasp drama that had aided them.
Liverpool can have few complaints about losses away at Crystal Palace, Galatasaray and Chelsea, all of whom were worthy victors in battles with the Reds. Fortunately for Slot, club football’s hiatus offers him the opportunity to do some much-needed analysis and problem solving before his players return from international duty.
Here are four things the Liverpool manager must address during the October break.
