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Arne Slot has been told that Liverpool's achievements last season will not save him if he can not arrest the team's slump.
The Reds have lost eight of their last 11 games in all competitions, including six of the last seven in the Premier League – a run which has seen the team drop to 12th in the top-flight standings. Contrastingly, last season, it took until May 4 for Liverpool to lose eight games in all competitions, by which point the title had already been wrapped up.
Former Liverpool midfielder Didi Hamann believes that the credit Slot built up last season is rapidly running out.
"If this run of form happened last season when Arne Slot joined the club, he wouldn't be in a job now," Hamann told CoinCasino.com.
"I'm pretty certain that's the case. He's got a lot of credit in the bank, and in a way, rightly so, because he won the league.
"But then again, that's in the past. He did wonderful things last season, and the team was fantastic to watch.
"They really bullied the Premier League last season, which nobody expected.
"But you've got to look forward now, and what you want to see is progress. If you don't see progress, I don't think last season will save him."
Liverpool looked to have turned a corner with wins over Aston Villa and Real Madrid earlier in the month, but back-to-back 3-0 losses in the league, to Manchester City and Nottingham Forest, have set alarm bells ringing.
Even when the Reds started the season with seven successive victories – excluding the Community Shield – they were frequently relying on late goals to win, and that was never going to be sustainable.
"At the moment they're just a normal team, and I think they showed it again on Saturday [against Forest]," Hamann added. "Good teams win games even when they're playing badly.
“They've done that at the start of the season, but obviously they've been very fortunate in a lot of the games they've won.
"It had to come to an end at some stage because you can't ride your luck every week. And they've come up against a workmanlike team.
"It doesn't take much at the moment to cause them huge problems, and I think that's the worrying thing at the moment. They don't look like a team, and it's not a good situation at the moment."
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