Liverpool are reportedly in contact with a highly-rated coach who ‘will accept’ the manager’s job once Arne Slot leaves, with the Dutchman apparently about to depart Anfield.
Mohamed Salah confirms Liverpool exit as Arne Slot future questioned
Tuesday’s announcement that Mohamed Salah would leave Liverpool at the end of the season sent shockwaves through English football.
The greatest player of the modern era at Anfield, gone — a contract with a year still to run torn up by mutual consent as both sides accepted the chapter was over.
Salah will leave Liverpool on a free transfer this summer, as confirmed by Fabrizio Romano and other sources, with the Reds and their Egyptian King parting company on the best of terms.
It was a bombshell that landed on a club already dealing with a season that has unravelled in ways few could have predicted.
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He’s been in great form out on loan this season.
Because for all the pain of losing Salah, the even bigger question looming over Anfield right now is whether Slot will be around to oversee whatever comes next.
The numbers tell a damning story.
10 Premier League defeats. A squad rebuilt last summer to the tune of £400m. Players of the calibre of Florian Wirtz signed and given everything they could need — and yet the cohesion has never really materialised on a consistent enough basis.
Sunday’s 2-1 loss at Brighton was Liverpool’s latest stumble in a title defence that has lurched from one disappointment to the next.
Slot publicly acknowledged the pressure after the Brighton defeat, and the questions around his future are no longer being whispered — they are front and centre.
The atmosphere around the club has the unmistakable feel of a regime approaching its end, with reports suggesting that Slot is facing a very uncertain future and an end-of-season review.
And into that uncertainty steps a major claim from Europe.
BILD, one of the most widely read newspapers in Germany, reports that Slot is “on the verge” of the sack — and that his replacement is already waiting in the wings.
Arne Slot about to leave Liverpool with Xabi Alonso ready to accept job
According to the outlet, Sunday’s Brighton defeat effectively sealed Slot’s fate at Anfield.
Liverpool avoided an immediate dismissal only because their Champions League rivals also dropped points over the weekend, keeping the top four race technically alive. But the direction of travel is clear. Slot will leave in the summer.
The man lined up to replace him? Xabi Alonso.
Liverpool’s sporting chief Michael Edwards first attempted to bring the Spaniard to Anfield in the spring of 2024. Alonso declined — he was weeks away from guiding Bayer Leverkusen through an entire undefeated Bundesliga season and was not prepared to abandon that extraordinary chapter.
Edwards accepted the answer, but kept the relationship alive. Even through last season’s title success under Slot, the contact never stopped.
BILD report that Liverpool have been pursuing Alonso with growing urgency and have maintained that contact. Crucially, the 44-year-old is understood to be prepared to commit.
If a formal offer arrives from Anfield and his conditions are met, BILD reports that Alonso “will accept” it.
Those conditions are specific and non-negotiable.
Alonso’s spell at Real Madrid — where he was brought in without real influence over recruitment, joined the squad for a Club World Cup campaign and was hammered 4-0 by PSG before he had barely settled — left scars.
The ‘genius‘ tactician apparently wants a significant say over squad planning before he agrees to anything.
Salah’s departure, painful as it is, has been viewed internally as an opportunity — a clean break that lets a new manager walk in and build without the baggage of recent tensions.
Alonso will not arrive before the summer, but according to BILD, the decision may have already been made.
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Mohamed Salah announced his decision to leave Liverpool on Tuesday night.
