Enrique has emerged as a potential candidate for the Liverpool job if Arne Slot is dismissed.<\/p>\n
Luis Enrique has already made his stance on Liverpool known amid claims that he is the club\u2019s top choice to replace Slot should the current boss be removed.<\/p>\n
Liverpool\u2019s form has collapsed, with nine defeats in their last 12 games across all competitions following Tuesday\u2019s 4-1 Champions League loss to PSV. The slump has dragged them out of the Premier League\u2019s top half, and Everton have now overtaken them after their 1-0 win at Manchester United.<\/p>\n
Slot faces a critical eight-day stretch, with away trips to out-of-form West Ham and Leeds, before hosting Sunderland at Anfield on December 2. Club legend Jamie Carragher believes the manager has these three fixtures to \u201csave his job\u201d, insisting in The Telegraph that failing to secure at least seven points would make his role \u201cuntenable\u201d.<\/p>\n
Liverpool rarely sack managers mid-season, with only Roy Hodgson and Brendan Rodgers suffering that fate in the past century. However, if Slot becomes the third, The Sun report that Liverpool would first consider asking Jurgen Klopp to return on an interim basis until the summer. Their long-term preference, though, is said to be PSG boss Enrique, who lifted the Champions League with the French side last season.<\/p>\n
Enrique has long expressed a desire to manage in the Premier League, telling FourFourTwo back in 2013 that he hoped to work in England someday, though joking that his wife would struggle with the weather. He also praised Brendan Rodgers\u2019 Liverpool at the time, explaining that he\u2019d studied their style during Rodgers\u2019 debut season.<\/p>\n
More recently, in March 2025, Enrique spoke glowingly about Liverpool when PSG faced them in the Champions League last 16 \u2014 a tie PSG won on penalties after a 2-1 victory at Anfield levelled the aggregate score. Before that match, he said Liverpool were among Europe\u2019s elite in recent years and had been the standout team in that season\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n
He also credited Slot for sustaining Liverpool’s high standards after Klopp, saying the Dutchman had built a balanced side capable of pressing, defending, and attacking with equal strength, and able to both construct patient moves and strike on the counter.<\/p>\n
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