When Arne Slot arrived at Liverpool, supporters hoped he would continue the club’s winning culture and build on the foundations left behind by Jürgen Klopp.
Instead, this season has become a campaign of unwanted history.
And the list of negative records Liverpool have broken under Slot is becoming genuinely alarming.
This season alone, Liverpool have suffered a staggering number of results and collapses that supporters never imagined possible only a few years ago.
Among the unwanted records:
- First time Manchester United completed a league double over Liverpool in a decade
- Liverpool losing 20 games in a season for the first time in the modern era
- First time losing six out of seven matches since 1902
- PSV Eindhoven beating Liverpool for the first time in 112 years
- Manchester City completing a league double over Liverpool for the first time in 89 years
- Plymouth Argyle beating Liverpool for the first time in 68 years
- Liverpool suffering a home domestic cup defeat by three goals without scoring for the first time since 1934
- Manchester United winning at Anfield for the first time since 2016
- Liverpool conceding five 90th-minute league winners in one Premier League season
- Nottingham Forest winning at Anfield for the first time in 55 years
- Fulham beating Liverpool at Craven Cottage for the first time since 2011
- Galatasaray keeping a clean sheet against an English side for the first time since 2012
- Chelsea recording back-to-back wins over Liverpool for the first time since 2014
- Crystal Palace beating Liverpool at Selhurst Park for the first time since 2014
- Newcastle United ending a nine-year wait for victory over Liverpool and beating them in a cup competition for the first time since 1995
- Liverpool losing to a Championship side for the first time since 2017
- First home defeat to Newcastle since 2012
Individually, some of these records could perhaps be dismissed as isolated bad days.
But together, they paint a deeply worrying picture.
Because this is no longer about one poor result or one unlucky spell.
It is about a team that has consistently fallen below the standards expected of Liverpool Football Club.
What frustrates supporters most is that many of these defeats have followed the same pattern.
Passive football.
Poor game management.
Defensive confusion.
Lack of intensity.
And a team that too often appears mentally fragile when pressure arrives.
For fans who became used to Liverpool intimidating opponents and dominating big occasions under Klopp, the contrast has been brutal.
The growing list of unwanted records is also why pressure continues to mount around Slot’s future.
At an elite club like Liverpool, history matters.
And unfortunately for Slot, too much history this season has been the wrong kind.
Of course, Liverpool still have the chance to secure Champions League qualification and prevent complete disaster.
But that alone will not erase the feeling of disappointment surrounding this campaign.
Because supporters expected Liverpool to compete for trophies and maintain elite standards — not spend the season breaking records nobody wanted broken.
That is why this summer now feels enormous.
Liverpool fans can accept rebuilding.
They can accept transition.
What they cannot accept is watching the club continue drifting further away from the identity and standards that once made it one of the most feared teams in world football.
Jamie (The Kopite View)
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