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Jamie BraidwoodThursday 27 November 2025 07:52 GMTComments
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Liverpool midfielder Curtis Jones admitted “we’re in the sh**” and said he was “past being angry” after the 4-1 defeat to PSV in the Champions League consigned the Reds to their worst run of form in 12 years.
Arne Slot’s side were humbled at Anfield for their third defeat in a row and ninth in 12 games, in what is their worst run of results since the 1953-54 season.
Liverpool won the Premier League title just six months ago but the mood at Anfield has soured and the team was booed off after their latest collapse against PSV - the third game in a row where Liverpool had conceded three or more goals.
open image in galleryJones said Liverpool’s run of results was ‘unacceptable’ (Action Images via Reuters)Boyhood Liverpool fan Jones told RTE: “I don’t have the answers. Honestly, I don’t. I’m saying that to everybody. It’s just unacceptable.
“I don’t even have to wait to think about it. I’m past being angry inside. I’m at the point now where I just don’t have the words.
“It’s hard because I’m playing for the team I support. I’m a fan, and I’ve seen this club all my life.
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“In a long, long time, I haven’t experienced a Liverpool team going through a period like this with results like these.
“But at the end of the day, we still have that badge on our chest. And until that badge is gone, we’re always going to fight.
"We’re going to try and get this team back to where it needs to be, show everyone again what this club is about and why people call it the best team in the world.
“But right now, we’re in the s*** and it needs to change."
Liverpool boss Slot admitted his “shock” at his team’s run of results and Jones conceded that the Reds have lost some of their fear factor at Anfield.
“It’s got to be on me and the rest of the lads to not be so nice where teams are coming here thinking, ‘We’re gonna win here. We’re gonna score two, three, four goals’,” he said.
open image in galleryLiverpool travel to West Ham on Sunday and then host Sunderland (Action Images via Reuters)“No, you’re coming here and this used to be a place that you hated to come you know, with the fans, with us, how we played and how we’d go and press and we were just absolute dogs. And then we have the ball and then we play.
“Whereas now we hardly even play. There’s times when we do play but off-the-ball stuff, I think that’s the stuff that has to change.”
Slot said speculation surrounding his future is fair but claimed he doesn’t feel under pressure, although he admitted he is stunned by how things have deteriorated.
“It is a shock for everyone, for the players, for me, this is very, very unexpected,” Slot said. “I am feeling safe, I am okay though.
“It would be nice to turn it around and get a victory but if you are working as a coach and not doing well then it is normal that questions are asked.
“If any manager around the world loses football games, let alone as many as we have lost, it’s quite normal people have an opinion about that. If it’s fair or unfair, it’s for other people to judge. Is that normal? I think it is. If you lose so many times, people start talking about that.
“I have got a lot of support from above. I am okay with my position. They [the board] don’t call every single minute of the day to say they trust me but in the normal conversations we have, I feel the trust.”
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