Yeah the lack of contract extension was always an eye brow raisers but hadn’t thought of the connection to the oddness of the quansah deal
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Always felt like hedging of bets. Like, our guy doesn’t rate him and we need the money, but also our guy might not work out, so…
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Once you realize who that actually is it’s even better. Do you know?
No issue but mine was in reply to Thomas.
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I don’t sorry I just found it on Instagram a week or so back
My instinct is that the discrepancy between when faith in Slot eroded is that the differing views were those of Edwards and Hughes, not FSG (Henry/Gordon) and Edwards/Hughes.
Also, far more likely that Edwards would be doing any sounding out on the quiet behind the scenes than Hughes. He’s an expert at keeping things under wraps, whereas I always felt that the line the journalists were being given about Slot continuing to be backed was far more likely to come from those around Hughes.
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Thanks for posting that but if the decision was really only made like that you have to wonder about the club. Blind Freddy could see we’ve looked awful for weeks and it’s just luck we made the CL while this article even suggests we may never have been in for Xabi simply because Hughes et al., didn’t see any need to replace Arne just a couple of weeks ago. Mind boggling!
Erm…this reads a bit like “the lady doth protest too much”. I don’t think anybody hates him here the way you’re making it out to be. People are just speculating about how he got in with his charges behind the scenes. It’s natural given how everyone reacted to Mo’s post. People are curious, that’s all. Also, you don’t have to be chummy with your manager for the working relationship to function, but it helps.
On the contrary, you took a rather peculiar position as if to almost defend the club’s previous position to seemingly keep him for the next season.
You’ve rightly pointed out that Hughes has a lot to answer for. But that doesn’t absolve Slot of his own responsibilities. And we obviously can’t sack both at the same time.
I personally think Hughes’ contract won’t be renewed and we’ll find out more about what happened with the haphazard sales and seemingly unnecessary and extravagant purchases after that.
Football fans can be emotional and irrational in their reactions. And Liverpool fans have an almost deeper level of connection with their manager. And everybody knew that following Klopp would be an unenviable task. So maybe it’s that contrast and the frankly cratering results and the negative numbers this season that got people riled up. But that was concern for the state of the club and not hatred of Slot as a person.
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I’m already put off by Hughes and still not sure about Edwards’ role in all this. But if this is true then they let ego/personal relationship to slot get in the way of sound football judgement.
Which is a big red mark against the both of them.
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If this is true ,it is fucking stupid, signing a guy which must have been on the say so of a guy going.Agree Saudi Arabia might suit him, he cannot have not known Slot was in the firing line.
In the real world an employees performances is constantly reviewed and evaluated, especially when the results of their performance is obvious to see and is backed by stats, and the stats did not lie!
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Are you implying the footballing world is/is not part of the “real world” or are you trying to be condescending to someone curious about the circumstances and timing surrounding the Slot dismissal?
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Alex Malone on YT actually mentioned in mid-May (after the collapse against Villa and Salah comments) that his sources at Anfield told him that Slot would not be the head coach for next season. He went on YT mentioned about the impending sack while there were so much noise from various media outlet that Slot would stay, with the addition of Reijnen. Malone mentioned about the sacking again during his Brentford post match video. Seems that Malone’s sources are legitimate (he also provided a lot of match lineup information, similar to someone on this forum.)
My concerns, after watching ththe YT videos, are about the leaks of information from Anfield to people outside.
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No it is having a go at the media saying that they only did a review at the end of the season, it should be ongoing
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I don’t have the least concern about leaks from the club. Just three days ago you can find all sorts of articles and content explaining why LFC was sticking with Slot. The fact that someone on youtube took a contrarian view which proved correct doesn’t mean there were real leaks, even if there were conversations with LFC employees.
At the most basic level, what happened is pretty simple. We won a title with a new manager, which created a significant level of respect for his performance. We then had an awful, uninspiring season with multiple contributing factors, not all of which had anything to do with the manager. This created building doubts, but no final decision was made notwithstanding some alternatives being explored quietly. The season ended, a review was held the following week, and at the end of the week the decision to terminate Slot was made. Despite the deep desire for someone to have known in March or April, there is the very real possibility that the decision happened last week. It wasn’t an easy decision. Slot won a title, that isn’t nothing. The club dealt with a great deal of adversity. Panicking into a firing in February is not what the ownership group does. At the end of the season, they did a difficult review, and didn’t see a way forward with Slot.
FSG does an end of season review with every sports club they own. Klopp was part of one every year, notwithstanding the fact that there was never a season where his job was on the line. This one was tougher, because unlike Klopp’s difficult seasons, there wasn’t a clear path ahead that everyone obviously believed in. In the end, that was probably what ended it for Slot.
For those blasting the club because they let Slot start to make changes to his coaching staff, and that will now cost the club severance - so what? In football terms, all coaches are cheap. Slot was the manager, his job was to prepare his side for next season. He was doing so, to the best of his ability until the end. He was making changes he thought would improve the team - so be it. An assistant coach’s severance payment is measurement error.
For those thinking that this means Hughes and Edwards are incompetent and should immediately be shown the door, well, that is simply moronic. They chose a manager, he won a title. That isn’t failure. That manager then proved to be problematic, a problem they moved to correct. As poor choices ago, 1 league win in 2 seasons is not that bad. But the bigger picture is you don’t blow up the club because you had a season with some adversity. Replacing a manager, a technical director, and a sporting director because of one tough season is chaos, a recipe for a cycle of mediocrity. Sure, the next manager probably comes in with at least one of Hughes or Edwards on the hook, they need to get this decision right…but genuinely, if they hired a bald Dutch guy with a 100% guarantee of winning the PL title next year followed by a crap season, would you really say no?
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They got @SBYM to do it?
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I’ve already watched quite a few of his videos because I really like his calm, understated manner; in this latest video, he reveals that Slot had refused to leave the club by mutual consent, meaning they ultimately had to fire him. And once again, he cites a source within the club.
Of course, you have to take this with a large grain of salt—I think that goes without saying.
I think this video is really worth watching.
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When I mentioned leaks, I’m not just referring to the leaks on Slot being sacked imminently…or leaks on possible infighting between Edwards and Hughes, but also about the more frequent match lineups. I thought that under Klopp, we rarely have these kind of leaks. Anyways, I’m going off topic now.
Regarding the Malone’s latest video on Slot “not taking the mutual consent” route, one wonders if FSG also wants to lower the compensation vs full severance when Slot being fired.
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But this isn’t a realistic premise. Winning a title with a problematic manager is one-off that is unlikely to be ever repeated again.
The truth is that we got lucky in the unique set of circumstances (Klopp passing on a well drilled team that was as fit as it gets, no major injuries, City and Arsenal having down years) that allowed a limited manager like Slot to get us all the way to the title.
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