This is definitely new ground for him. After his title-winning season at Feyenoord, he had a third season there which wasn’t as successful. He finished second in the league well behind PSV, and ‘only’ won the Dutch cup.
Still, it’s not comparable with the way we have plumetted down from worthy champions last season to an inconsistent midtable-team. Take away our early winning streak (seven games), and we find ourselves with a points-average of one point per game. That’s in fact rather relegation form than mid-table (when I looked this up, I had actually to pinch myself. It’s really dire…).
Since late september of last year, we are a bottom-table club. Slot has never faced such a difficult situation during his relatively short career until now.
I totally get the Alonso point but I wouldn’t go down the Glasner route in the slightest.
Brentford to me have shown the ablity to continue even in the face of massive change, I did suggest the structure of that club maybe stronger than many imagined. I know many tipped them to be relegated on here and I didn’t think that was the case. However thats been built over a decade now.
Did they give any (valid) reasons behind that? Or is it the trepidation creeping in that a once great ex-player comes back and it goes horribly wrong for them.
Absolutely and we’ve seen enough to know Slot can’t fix this. Problem we have is if Xabi’s not available where do we go? Surely sounding outs are happening…
It’s amazing to me that anyone could look at the last few years of Liverpool and United and, based on a few games, suggest we copy their decision making.
Its not based on a few games, and no one is suggesting we turn into another Man Utd. Rodgers was close to winning the league, and he was sacked when the wheels fell off. He looked helpless with no vision as to how to arrest the slide. Unfortunately, at the moment we look visionless, no structure or plan. City were there to be beaten yesterday, and we didn’t lay a glove in them for the first fifty minutes. When we played, we played quite well. For for a limited amount of time.
Sure, its not all Slots fault, but the buck stops somewhere. And it will be him.
Appointing Alonso of indeed Gerrard isn’t the Utd blueprint. Its a way of salvaging something.
I understand the loyalty to Slot, and would have gladly given him the season.
But that was always dependant on improvement. Aside from 60 mins vs Newcastle, that hasn’t happened.
I don’t see really how the club and team is so comparable to 14/15 Liverpool.
I mean we can say that results wise both teams struggled to figure out their best XI and had a little run at some point, but that’s where all similarities stop.
There is no real value in comparing two cases like, rather focus on this now. The club is in a much better place and the team is also (to a lesser extent) I’d say. The stuff we changed during 14/15 was just a bit all over the place.
But it might not be enough. If we fail to secure CL football then I think most people will accept that in this age, seasons like that where we come from are hardly tolerable anymore. It’s not like before when even Shanks or Paisley had some weirdly low league positions from time to time.
Even Slot would I think accept it (I don’t doubt he’d love to remain and make it right next season, thinking that he could deserve a 3rd season on the basis of 1 good and 1 bad) pretty calmly if we fail in that.
It is nore comparable than suggesting we are akin to Man Utd.
Rodgers almost won a title, things went to crap and he was sacked.
Slot won the title, things go to crap and we are enitled to ask a question.
But that’s not what’s happening and you’re reverting to type in some of your disdain towards other posters. I get it; it’s emotional and tensions are high and everyone is entrenched in their views.
We have this reputation for being a patient club and fanbase, at least compared to some other big (or better to say rich) clubs.
But then again, the priority is do what we believe is right for the club and team. If that means having a period of a few years of change, then that’s what happens. Though we are better run than we were in the early to mid 10’s. We can be more picky.
I cannot buy into the idea that an interim option (and it also depends who?) necessarily improves our chances of top 5 or winning the CL from possibility to probability. United and Chelsea winning a few games cannot sway me to believe that’s the best option.
In autumn, I felt it was dangerously close for Slot to get the sack if he continued losing games. Nobody knows where the club had it’s limit, like now.
The main comparison to this (as I have read) is that we get to speculate a “what if” scenario. What if Rodgers had won the league. A lot of us feel that we are experiencing that actual “what if” scenario now. Would the club have sacked Rodgers if he had won the league and the next year was shit (as it was)?
There is a huge difference as far as the squads go. Suarez was carrying that team. Gerrard, while good enough for the side, had declined significantly. This squad is significantly stronger.
That 13/14 side was very wild, it wasn’t built on good foundations and I think even if we had won the league, some events wouldn’t have been much different.
Like selling Suarez, perhaps still not getting some top targets over the line and possibly still struggling in 14/15 like we did.
Last season even if we had finished 2nd, I have much more belief that we can compete again and win.
