When you're really under pressure, like Arne Slott is right now liverpoolSo every aspect of your job is under scrutiny. And, this also includes how you look.
English fans are used to seeing a manager under pressure suddenly become lethargic, tired, unkempt or simply look as if he has had too much to do.
However, for Dutch journalist René van der Gijp, there is another issue at play for the slot at Liverpool; The way he is currently dressing.
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Van der Gijp was watching like everyone else as Paris Saint-Germain beat Liverpool 2-0 in the Champions League this week.
While the performance on the pitch was worrying, with Liverpool dominating throughout and fortunate not to concede more, it seemed the journalist was distracted by something else entirely.
He was not impressed with how Arne Slott had prepared himself for the game. This is something he has seen before from the Dutch coach and has called him out on it.
"He was standing there like a swimming instructor," Voetbal Primer reported him as saying.
"His first match at Feyenoord, he was still wearing the T-shirt. And at the next press conference I was there and I said: You shouldn't wear a T-shirt, because it is not acceptable for the Feyenoord coach to be standing on the sidelines in a Ziman shirt."
Slott agreed with Driessen on that point. "But now he's wearing that Ziman shirt again, so the guy has completely lost his way."
"Can't afford to lose"
For fellow journalist Valentin Driessen, time is now running out for Arne Slott at Liverpool. Indeed, he believes the Dutch coach has two games to save his job at Anfield.
“They have two more matches,” he said.
“Now he faces Bournemouth, who he can't afford to lose. And he has to get it out in a proper way against Paris Saint-Germain.
"I have to say, I saw him in that little T-shirt and it's not good. He's the manager of Liverpool."
