Mark Ogden

Well, obviously, the pressure is on Arne Slott to do better than he has been doing.

And we're talking about, you know, just down the road, you've got Man United looking for a former player who can...

do the job as an interim to them in the season, they're struggling.

Liverpool have got a former player who has won the Bundesliga with an incredible record at Leverkusen, coached Real Madrid, albeit not successfully, but they've got basically a gold-plated coach ready in the wings if Arne Slott leaves in the summer.

So Liverpool know that if they need to make a change, they've got somebody there who can come into Anfield and know the club, know the players, know Florian Wurz, as Greg said, so...

It's not good news for Arne Slott.

Arne Slott can change the situation around by making Liverpool better, potentially winning the Champions League this season, but from now until the end of the season, the fact that Xabi Alonso is gone today means that Arne Slott will be looking over his shoulder all the way to the end of the season, and maybe even beyond.

Yeah, I don't think he needs me to tell him that Xabi Alonso's a stalking horse, but yeah, he'll know all about the situation he's in right now.

He has to get better results, doesn't he?

Starting with the FA Cup tonight, because obviously last season they had a shocker at Plymouth when they were not taking the fourth round, so Arne's not under pressure to deliver.