I think selling Luis Diaz was a mistake I think him and Nunez did a lot more than perhaps was realised that and TAA leaving has meant huge gaps that take time to fill.
Then I think Jota - I think so much of the tributes to him are almost becoming shrines, his shirt in the dressing room, the 20 minute clap there is no moving forward from it and they are all stuck grieving. We tend to throw ourselves into things in grief - work being one but what happens when work is the place that magnifies your grief. It’s telling I think that Kelleher/Diaz etc are able to perform much better because they don’t have the constant reminders.
Then I think Slot is an issue there he doesn’t know how to deal with it and he is a strange mix of having known Jota but not having known him. Klopp would have been seen as knowing him for longer and or someone new. Which I think is needed.
Then you don’t have players used to the mentality of getting out of this spiral (I think it was the same issue for Man Utd next year). Granit Xhaka summed it up for me when he said he went to Sunderland because it was important for him to learn as a player how to scrap how to fight and they need that as well.