‘Every Liverpool fan I speak to’ – Lewis Steele has seen something at Anfield that FSG can’t ignore

He continued that the natives ‘have seen enough’ of Slot’s ‘slow’ brand of football, adding: “I don’t blame them for leaving”.

Steele also said that FSG **“**can’t not hear the negativity towards Arne Slot” and stated: “Every Liverpool fan I speak to, apart from a very small number, don’t think that he’s the man to turn it around.”

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Many fans have lost belief in Slot to turn things around

The journalist has hit the nail on the head with his comments about the head coach – obviously Liverpool fans want the man in charge to succeed, but we’ve now reached a point whereby very few still believe that Slot is capable of reversing the slump we’ve endured this season.

Even in many of the games that the Reds have won in 2025/26, the performances have been difficult to watch, and the sight and sound of fans streaming for an early exit and boos greeting the full-time whistle from those who’ve stayed to the bitter end have become all too frequent.

Steele’s claim that Anfield is no longer a fortress is backboned by the embarrassing fact that three of the current bottom five in the Premier League have taken points there in the current campaign, with Nottingham Forest even winning 3-0, a result which was swiflty followed by a 4-1 thrasing at home to PSV Eindhoven.

In previous years, Liverpool would’ve found a route to victory in matches such as the 1-1 draw against Chelsea last weekend. Instead, there was a genuine worry in the final few minutes that a team which had been on a run of six straight league defeats were going to head back to London with victory.

FSG might be determined to stick with Slot for the time being, but even they couldn’t have turned a deaf ear to the vitriol inside the stadium at the full-time whistle last Saturday, or the overflowing mood of discontent from the fan base at large.