Liverpool director Richard Hughes is understood to have overruled manager Arne Slot on the sale of Luis Diaz during the summer.
Diaz ended up leaving Liverpool to join Bayern Munich despite being a key player for Slot’s side as they won the Premier League title last season.
And I can reveal that my inside sources tell me that Slot didn’t want Diaz to leave, with the Reds boss actually also pushing for the Colombia international to be given a new contract.
My understanding is that Hughes overruled Slot as he didn’t see the value in giving Diaz a lucrative new deal, while the transfer fee Bayern were offering was seen as “appealing”.
Arne Slot felt Luis Diaz was important to Liverpool
Many Liverpool fans will now be questioning the decision to sell Diaz, who had always been a pretty impressive member of the team.
The 28-year-old has now started superbly for Bayern as well, and it seems this was not a player Slot was looking to lose.
LFC ended up bringing in plenty of new attacking signings such as Alexander Isak, Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike, but there’s no question that Diaz has looked like a major loss.
Slot saw Diaz as a key player and pushed to keep him, but Hughes had the final say and made the controversial call to rubber-stamp his sale to Bayern.
Arne Slot facing critical moment at Liverpool
As I posted on X last night after the 4-1 defeat at home to PSV Eindhoven, there will be a meeting at Liverpool today as Slot faces a critical moment in his reign.
The Dutch tactician will need to turn things around quickly, with this team now on its worse run since all the way back in 1953.
For what it’s worth, Jamie Carragher is still backing Slot and has instead blamed the players for this awful recent run.
Another Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard also stopped short of calling this a “crisis”, but warned that Slot needs to get a grip on things soon or it could just get even worse.
Slot AND Richard Hughes OUT!!!.
Be it Richard Hughes, Michael Edwards or Arne Slot those in the committee and have the final say in buying and selling players are responsible for this mess created. Liverpool has never been big spenders like they did this season but somehow winning their first title under Slot on first attempt makes them splurge like Man City.. this has rocked the foundation of the winning team..
if slot is given the boot, Huges should follow immediately
Hughes is the problem. He should take responsibility for the state of LFC currently.
Corporate stupidity is being rewarded with weekly loses.
Hughes was wrong, Slot was wright. Diaz is a great football player, as seen in Bayern Munich.
Diaz is indeed a great footballer and one wishes him the best, but how selfish we are sometimes to forget that he recently suffered the kidnap of his parents, probably for political reasons given his global status.
Likely money was trying to be extorted, or perhaps coercion to perform on the pitch how the kidnappers wanted.
The lad needed a new start somewhere else.
Bayern stepped in with a good deal for us and him.
Just a but of thought, empathy and knowledge of the truth can make a huge difference to people’s opinions.
It doesn’t pay to go off half-cocked sometimes.
this a very tough time for Liverpool
I really put the blame upon the manager,
pls check your formation,
New Season you fully started as a manager
lookout were we are in table,
we’ve never lose like this at home for a very long time,out of 12 matches you lost 9 what’s a disgrace