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Liverpool has simply been branded a "normal team" amid its recent run of torrid form.
The Reds went into Wednesday's Champions League meeting with PSV Eindhoven off the back of a run of eight losses from 11 games — to put that into perspective, Liverpool's eighth loss of last season came in the 53rd game of the campaign.
Liverpool's recent struggles have taken most observers by surprise, but former Reds midfielder Didi Hamann thinks the team is getting what it deserves results-wise at the moment.
“I think I said a few weeks ago, at the moment they're just a normal team and I think they showed it again on Saturday," Hamann told CoinCasino.com. "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.”
Hamann also suggested that the successes of last season will only keep Slot in a job for so long if the team's struggles continue.
Liverpool won the league during Slot's first term in charge but have not come close to rediscovering the level that was on show during the 2024-25 campaign.
Liverpool is currently in the bottom half of the Premier League standings, and Hamann said, “If this run of form happened last season when Arne Slot joined the club, he wouldn't be in a job now. 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.”
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