Arne Slot was conspicuous in his absence because the Liverpool supervisor pulled out of attending an awards ceremony on the heels of his facet’s dismal 3-0 house loss to Nottingham Forest on Saturday afternoon.
The top coach is the recipient of this yr’s Northern Soccer Writers’ Affiliation supervisor of the yr award after he oversaw the Reds’ triumphant Premier League marketing campaign in his debut season.
However months later, Liverpool are within the thick of a difficult squad rebuild and adrift on the pitch, having misplaced eight of their final 11 matches.
In Slot’s place, Liverpool despatched membership ambassador Gary McAllister to gather the award on his behalf, after the 47-year-old confirmed that he wouldn’t be attending the occasion at 4pm on Sunday afternoon.
Each day Mail Sport understands McAllister was attending Leeds’ match towards Aston Villa, and contacted at half-time to step in for Slot as his substitute.
McAllister shared the supervisor’s apologies with the occasion’s attendees, in addition to a short message from the Dutchman, which took in how he’s ‘extraordinarily proud’ to have received the award.
Arne Slot pulled out of attending an awards occasion on the eleventh-hour on Sunday night
Earlier this Premier League weekend the supervisor’s Liverpool slumped to a 3-0 defeat towards Nottingham Forest
Among the many honourees at Sunday night time’s occasion have been Daniel Farke of Leeds, whose facet additionally fell to defeat this Premier League weekend, Wrexham supervisor Phil Parkinson, and Newcastle’s Eddie Howe.
The final high-profile Premier League supervisor to attend the awards ceremony was Erik ten Hag, who picked up an honour final yr for his profitable the FA Cup throughout Manchester United’s 2023-24 season.
In a cruelly ironic twist, Ten Hag was sacked by Man United hierarchy simply days later, and changed with present supervisor Ruben Amorim.
Within the wake of the defeat at Anfield by Forest, who recorded their first back-to-back win on the floor since 1978, Slot shouldered a lot of the blame in his post-match remarks.
‘I need to emphasise I’m accountable for the present losses,’ he stated. ‘You’re accountable if you end up profitable but additionally accountable if you end up shedding.
‘I can by no means give you sufficient excuses for us to have the outcomes we have now. That’s removed from ok and I’m accountable for that.
‘It’s my accountability if we win or lose. What I additionally see is the group – and the followers stayed till the top – carry on making an attempt till the top. It wasn’t at Manchester Metropolis (a fortnight in the past) however in each different sport we have now performed we have now been the dominant group and have been capable of create probabilities.
‘Recently, nearly continually, we miss our probabilities and those that go that we conceded – that won’t proceed all season. However we have to have that second of power, scoring a aim. If you’re enjoying nicely and rating a aim to go 1-0 up the opposite group (will get deflated).
‘However the reverse factor occurred… they obtained an enormous power increase from scoring 1-0. I see numerous issues the place in a standard state of affairs the outcome would have been totally different however we at the moment are in a troublesome state of affairs and you could do much more when issues aren’t getting in your favour.’
