This already risks our ability to attract and retain players. Unless something happens quickly the likes of Szoboszlai, Wirtz, Ekitike will be agitating and clubs will be circling, sensing an opportunity to widen any existing fractures.
At this point, FSG must be concerned about the damage to their asset, which will be considerably more than any pay off.
Because his job is CEO of Football in FSG, so would be one of the senior guys within the company that are based in UK, so would be at games as a representative of the owners.
Famed sex advice columnist Dan Savage coined what he called the camp ground rule for relationships arguing that the only thing that really matters about your conduct when in one is to leave the person in a better state than how you found them.
I’ve always had that attitude about how to judge managers. Whether we are conscious of it or not it is at the core of why Shanks is so reveered - it wasnt just for what he won but the thing he built that made it possible for the success that came after. For Slot, even when considering the title win last season I am concerned that we’re rapidly approaching the point where his tenure is judged negatively using that rule.
I follow a couple of the fan channels - Redmen and Anfield Wrap, and they are
A) not one homogeneous voice. They represent a range of opinions.
B) while less hysterical than the average Twitter fan, they have contributors who are in favour of sacking Slot. I would say it’s been a majority of opinion for a while.
C) the idea that they are shills paid off by FSG, is frankly childish.
To my shame, just finished watching the whole game, yes I carried on even when you we were 4 down.
I have been saying all season, I just don’t understand what we are doing defensively, there seems to be no plan, whether it is pressing, a mid block or low block.
The players just seem to have no idea what role they have in the systems under Arne’s supposed tactics, there are gaps, opposition players completely open, no one trackng runners, isolated pressing. For me it is a joke from a tactical perspective.
Then the other side of it, with what the f#$k are we supposed to be doing in possession?
We try to play it short, have no penetration vertically and it goes back to the keeper who hits a long ball forward to nobody, even if on the rare time it goes near one of our forwards, they are isolated.
Arne and his coaching team are out of their depth, yes he won the title last season, and I hate saying this, it was with the left over of Jurgens identity/personality that was imprinted on the team. The more time he has spent supposedly developing our players and tactics the worse we have become, to a state that we are laughing targets.
He has to go now, don’t piss about, it is obvious it isn’t working in all aspects to the extent the players throw in the towel as soon as we go 1 down.
And why is that notion so silly? If you were him, you’d cling to the belief that you’d get things right, even though literally nothing you’ve done for a full calendar year managed to yield any meaningful results? Your players don’t look like they’d run through the walls for you, they don’t look like a unit that trains together, let alone one that is able to string a few meaningful attacks together or consistently stop opposition like a cohesive unit. The team is breaking all sorts of negative records, too. I’m yet to find the stat about the ratio of goals scored from play vs. those from set pieces in 2026 but I think it won’t make for a pretty viewing either.
If the rolling PL table I found online is correct, for the past calendar year, it reads: P40 W18 D9 D13, goals scored 67, goals conceded 56, overall position is 5th. If you were the boss of a club of Liverpool’s stature, would you still believe you could turn that around, taking everything that has been going on into consideration?
Slot and his team have got me truly believing that anything below eight goals conceded over two legs against PSG would not count as a disaster - maybe the owners are waiting for them to strike those final nails into the coffin of Slot’s Liverpool career to make them look like they have given him every opportunity to turn it around. Otherwise, I can’t explain their indolence.