Football Daily | The curious case of Arne Slot’s Paris romance and Liverpool’s slump

The curious case of Arne Slot’s Paris romance and Liverpool’s slump Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! RED ALERT Arne Slot tries his best not to choke up when he talks of last year’s meeting between Liverpool and PSG. “I hope every fan around the world was hoping this game wouldn’t stop because it was incredible,” he blubbed in March 2025. His team had just lost on penalties to the soon-to-be Bigger Cup winners. “It was the best game of football that I was ever involved in.” If the Slot regime comes to its end this summer, with a significant groundswell of opinion among Kopites nodding in that direction, then it is curious he keeps returning to an infamous European night at Anfield which may well prove the beginning of the end. A few days later, Liverpool deservedly lost a Fizzy Cup final to a much more inspired Newcastle. Things have never quite been the same since, despite a 20th league title being claimed in April. Slot will always have Paris. “My football is Paris Saint-Germain v Liverpool, Liverpool v Paris Saint-Germain,” Slot cooed after Fulham’s Harrison Reed had scored a last-minute equaliser against his team in January. “That is how I would love to have every single game, but you need to have two teams to have an open game of football and not all these things that don’t make a game of football nice.” On Wednesday, Slot will doubtless be wearing his best Harrington jacket and splashing on the Lynx Africa when Liverpool return to Paris for a Bigger Cup rekindling of his ecstatic romance. He could barely contain himself after beating Galatasaray in the last 16 set up the reunion, mooning: “I’ve said many times that it was the best game I’ve managed in my career, even though we lost, in terms of how it was played with both teams playing football the way it should be played and wanting to entertain the fans.” Problematically for Slot and Liverpool, a fortnight widely previewed as two weeks to relaunch the Reds began with that FA Cup performance...