If Slot is here at the start of next season I fully expect him to be here until his contract expires.
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He’ll certainly be here at the start of next season no matter what in my view, but if we continue to decline it’ll be interesting to see what if will take for him to get booted in the last year of his contract.
It’s quite depressing to think about another season of this shit to be honest.
Yeah they won’t stick with him if the results are rubbish.
Did heitinga work with slot at feyenoord as well ?
No, he was at Ajax.
Was it his assistant manager at Feyernoord who had not completed the required coaching badges prior to Arne starting here?
I wonder if he has done them now and whether Arne can bring him in as his number 2 if he is staying,
Marino Pusic was one, he since was at Shakhtar and now he’s at Al-Jazira.
And Etienne Reijnen, who couldn’t get a work permit(?), he’s still at Feyenoord.
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We did get van bronckhorst as a replacement for Heitinga I think. He doesn’t seem to have the same impact that Heitinga had the last season.
I don’t want Slot getting one more season but I can’t fault FSG if fhey allow him another shot considering the massive squad changes , his key assistant leaving , jota’s death and the impact on the side.
Personally I’d rather a clean break happen so that Slot goes off still as a successful coach for Liverpool and we get someone else.
Doesn’t sit right with me that he is unable to better last season’s team despite all the investment that was given to him. I don’t mean the final league position. But the football style.
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We know far too little about these things, how much did changes in the coaching staff impact things, who had more influcence, etc. We can find out certain things with time looking back with some people speaking publicly, but right now it’s almost impossible to know.
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And a manager at a club like Liverpool is expected to scout out capable assistant managers to work with.
If Heitinga was responsible for the defensive coaching work , he wasn’t evidently replaced with someone similar
And i would think Bronckhorst will move on as he probably has a wish to continue his career as a manager?
Reports linking him as a technical director for feyenoord
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After watching the PSG - Bayern match, I am even more convinced that Slot must be sacked. He is evidently not someone who can produce that kind of football.
As for the replacement, personally I would prefer Nagelsmann, since he already has a proven track record and among other active managers his style is closest to Klopp, apart from Enrique.
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Initially my feeling was to give him another chance, after things started going tits up, but I am way beyond that now.He had money spent that many clubs could only dream of and went backwards, seems to be able to blame other issues, like Rodgers!
If he gets another year or so it is very hard to see what he will improve,seem to recall a couple of times he said he didn’t know.
Very comforting for the fans who shell out their hard earned to watch rubbish.
It is time,Arne,sorry!
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Yet we did produce that football for a few months for almost half a season of his first season. We were the best in Europe.
You are correct he needs to go because he needs to work out for himself what went wrong. We can only guess.
Small squad mentality?
Lack of rotation?
Too much tweaking?
Poor squad and man management?
Lack of experience at this level?
Over confident in certain players and lack of with others?
Poor vision?
As I said it’s for him to analyse we just need rid of!
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Yeah, that’s the difficult part. While Rodgers was a bit suspect right from the beginning, and ultimately proved to be unworthy of this club, Slot delivered the goods initially, more so than we could have expected. Then again, he inherited a settled squad, there weren’t many injuries, and it was plain sailing right from the beginning.
Now, we have a disjointed and unbalanced squad due to way too many departures last summer, and a massive amount of injuries leading to further injuries. As a result, general doubt has crept in about Slot’s ability to assess what needs to be done to right the ship during the summer, and to be able to achieve it.
I’d be very surprised if he’s still with us when the new season begins. But remember, it’s the people at the club having to make that decision who know the details about what went wrong this season, not us. We have far less insight than them, and thus can’t form a valid judgment on these issues. IF the owners and directors come to the conclusion that Slot must be kept beyond the end of this season, they’ll have valid reasons to do that, and I’ll trust their judgment.
Well, in the first half of the season he basically let the Klopp team play on autopilot mode with only a few adjustments.
All I know is we were very good yet by the time we met PSG we had noticeably started to drop off alarmingly.
So much so we started to rely on 2 players to pull us over the line. One left us the other is leaving at the end of the season.
This points to Slot not knowing what was behind our great form. Which inturn questions his suitability to be our manager.
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I think that he got a shock when PSG put us out last year.
I’m just thinking about this now but looking back it could well be the same thing as his tactic of just throwing anything pre-planned out of the window whenever we’re losing a game and instead he just throws as many attacking players onto the pitch at once, except in this instance it was on a much larger scale.
Instead of panicking and gambling because we’re a goal or two down he gambled larger because we got knocked out of Europe and lost the League Cup final against Newcastle. If you think about it that was really the first time he had to face us losing a few important games within a relatively short space of time.
His reaction to it seems to have been to try and change our style of play to try and resemble PSG on the pitch. Unfortunately, just like the idea of throwing as many attackers onto the pitch, the sudden desire to change how we play doesn’t seem to have been well planned because everything he has done since then has ironically pushed us further and further away from what PSG are at the moment.
I really don’t think he has the capability to get a team to play like PSG in the Premier League. I would have thought that he’d have a better chance of succeeding in getting the team to play like that in the Champions League but after the hypocritical ‘low block’ he went with when we played against PSG this year I think that even he has realised he’s not capable of getting the team there.
Far too many things just seem to be the way many people play Football Manager on the pc.
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@Schmee we were losing it before PSG.
His small squad mentality was showing. He over used Gravenberch who looked knackered (the poor sod couldn’t even pass 2m) yet we had and have players who could come in.
Something was changed and we just started looking more and more confused, tired, poor and boring.
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