Gerrard: No Excuses for Liverpool's Slump
27 November 2025
Gerrard's verdict: No excuses for Liverpool's slump
Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard has said there are no excuses for the sequence of poor results the English club is currently enduring.
The remarks followed another setback for manager Arne Slot, this time a 4-1 defeat at Anfield to PSV Eindhoven in the UEFA Champions League, bringing Liverpool to nine losses in their last 12 matches.
Context: A chastening European night and a troubling run
That run is the worst stretch since late 1953 and early 1954, the last season in which the club dropped out of the top flight in England.
Gerrard's stance on the crisis label
Yet Gerrard refused to call the situation a crisis, noting that many players had won the league last season.
In an interview with TNT Sports, he said: "With every defeat, especially the way it happens, you move closer to saying it's a crisis. I don’t like using that term because a real crisis would mean years to return to the top, and I don’t think Liverpool are in that position."
He added that the squad still contains excellent players and that most of this generation has won the title, so the word crisis is too strong.
On the question of the club’s worst run of results, Gerrard warned that Slot must find urgent answers to halt the collapse.
He concluded that while the team is suffering, the goals are leaking and confidence is at a low ebb, and only stability can reverse the slide.
Punchlines
Punchline 1: If defending were an art, Liverpool would be a paint-by-numbers kit—lots of color, no frame.
Punchline 2: And as for excuses, Gerrard says no—though at this rate, even the clock on the wall seems to be running late.
