Well we did sell them Ibe
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Just catching up to the news. Lazy start, walked the dog, hadnāt even looked at my phone yet (itās good for the mental health to detach and get outside under the blue sky from time to time!)
First and foremost, thank you Arne Slot for number 20. That will never be taken away, and it was special to win it at a canter. Well done that man.
Most of us expected it would be the start of a successful era under a new man, but it wasnāt to be. Various things went against us this season and in a way Slot has been very unlucky, but a proper assessment would also say we still should have been better despite adverse circumstances. Too many losses. The style of play had no oomph about it. And then most damning of all is that it very much looked like Slot had lost a good chunk of the dressing room, and most fans too.
In other words, it was a long way back from that, so all in all it is the right decision to let him go.
I will never disrespect a Liverpool manager, much less a title winning manager. I understand the relief his sacking brings, as we do need something else, but we have to stay classy and not dance on his grave. The right decision has been made and now we can look forward.
It looks like it will be Iraola but we donāt know that yet. He has a front foot style that should get us going again.
As for Alonso, we just donāt know what happened. Did he want us? Did we want him? Were we still genuinely intending to keep Slot when Alonso moved to Chelsea? Did Alonso want more power than our structure would allow? Did the metrics suggest something to the decision makers that gave them pause?
Too many unknowns. We didnāt get him and he has gone to Chelsea.
On our end Slot is gone. Itās the right decision. Now letās see who we bring in, as now, all of a sudden, we can look to next season with renewed hope, rather than a sense of heaviness that it was not going to work out under Slot.
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Stories about frustration with his lack of interest in the reserves have been doing the rounds since the winter, which were especially damning given promotion of young, in-house talent was one the pilars of success Hughes laid out for a Liverpool manager
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Always liked Chris Royce me.
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Worried that Arteta will be linked with the LFC job?
They needed beā¦
I see this a lot and Iām not disagreeing with it. But the elephant in the room is our continued refusal to do anything about actually integrating our CFās into the team with a clear plan on how to play to their strengths.
Thatās the concern for me. Give them some fucking service and worry about the rest later.
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We know. Youāve been categorically stating for months without any hint of deviation that Slot would be staying and that we should all get used to it. Any new coach is a gamble.
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Plus theyāve always been happy to take some of our stiffs for decent money. Itās win-win.
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Welcome back. We did not miss you. I certainly did not.
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The moralizing about joyful responses to this news are incredibly odd and misplaced. Liverpool is a communal project and Slot is but a small component of that. For many, concerns of him being allowed another season went far beyond the prospect of a wasted season but of club rot that could take years to remedy. @Mascot spent months interjecting repeatedly to tell us that Slot was not going anywhere. Of course people who had concerns about what that would have meant for the club if true are going to be joyful that it turned out not to be. That is a response not just to a new start, but to growing concern we were not going to take a decision that most people felt they had to make.
Slot has lost his job, but that comes with the territory. As I have said over and over again this season - that is what the money is for. The prospects of Liverpool FC are always more important than that of a single person and the response to him leaving has to be seen in direct relation to how concerning it would have been to have not made the decision.
Nothing in football is guaranteed, but many people, myself included, view this as necessary step to give ourselves a chance to get back on track. And yes, Iām not going to feel bad about doing a fist pump upon waking up and seeing 300 new posts in this thread.
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Upon hearing the news of Slotās firing, I apparently kissed my wife in a manner she had not experienced in twenty years, TWENTY FUCKIN YEARS, she said. My wifeās suggestion is simple: Liverpool should hire him back, sit him down in the dugout, hand him a warm cup of tea, and then immediately sack him again. Rinse and repeat. Weekly if necessary.
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Journalists
āWhy were we wrongā
Etc etc.
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No chance of Klopp returning as long as Edwards is director. They never got along previously.
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nostradamus is that you
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The idea those players are incapable of pressing is utter nonsense.Itās an interpretation that exists solely to excuse Slot of blame for how bad itās looked.
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Thanks for the league title slotty.
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