Fuck me. I guess time does heal all wounds 
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A team in need of a change before we slip any further behind.
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Just think the players have lost all confidence in what is being asked of them. There’s only so many times you can do what you’re asked and not see it work before you question it. It’s too far gone for him now and Hughes needs to fuck off as well if he can’t see it.
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In addition some players just have to be replaced, especially if the likes of Wirtz, Ekitike, and Isak are to be accommodated.
I’m looking at Macca first
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His form is now of those that were sacked soon after.
I can see a replication of Rodgers then again that seems to have been due to giving Klopp a rest.
People moan about the metrics but it’s got to be flashing alerts all over the place.
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A) How long as he been working on this for?
B) Why do the players always show up in various places miles from Kirkby during the week?
C) Why is in the same garbage I’ve seen week in week out bar the odd game for at least 7-8 months if not longer?
I was willing to give the lads time into Feb to see some improvements but it’s not improved. Yes injuries are not helping but deciding to choose from the same tiny pool of players has led to this.
I do think CL football is vital but I’m not sure I want to see more of this next season and god knows what he would do in a Europa or Europa Conference league game, pick again from the tiny group of players he trusts. Jones should have played more, Endo should have played more (perhaps he wouldn’t have gone down injured when he was drafted in to play right back.
There is zero reason for Rio not to start today, he started against Fulham, why is 60 minutes not in the lad?
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“I know what we can improve on and we are already working hard on this”.
Hopefully Alonso’s contract and your severance package?
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Yeah dead funny. Tell me what you’ve seen in Slot this season that betters what Hodgson produced in 5 months without spending half a billion quid?
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Seriosly, Hodgson inherited a shit squad and got fuck all to spend. He lasted 5 months and rightly so.
Slot’s team is a fucking shambles and has been fucking shit for over a year. Despite spending half a billion.
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I said something similar in the post match thread. There will obviously be things that can only be fixed in the summer, and clearly you’re not responsible for sheer bad luck in terms of injuries. But if they have identified issues, what on earth have they been doing about it?
I know that the club analysed Klopp’s last season at Dortmund and identified that he suffered from outrageously bad fortune. However, he did pull things together, despite being very fatigued by the end of the season.
I just don’t see that with Slot. He just comes across as resigned to his fate, and I am not sure an end of season reset is going to impove things.
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Woah Nellie, I’m not believing players “have lost ALL confidence?”
The players won 3 league games on the run. Sandwiched before and in between that was our best performance of the whole season, Salah’s announcement to retire from football, and 3 spankings from the best 2 teams in world football right now - that also won the fuckin’ lot in the last 5 years.
We lost a game at old trafford today, it wasn’t the first and it won’t be the last.
Yup, it’s why I argued against some who were concerned about how Dortmund dropped off.
He was able to turn them from 18th to 6/7th and make Europe hence why we met them the year after.
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https://x.com/thisisanfield/status/2050998826618810820
"A manager who had noticed Mac Allister’s weaknesses would have dropped him a long time ago for Curtis Jones, but instead, Slot seems determined to sell the latter after shifting him to right-back.
The reality is it should be Liverpool’s No. 10 who is up for sale this summer, with a direct replacement top of the priority list."
This article is worth a read
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Several observation about our manager:
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He must be the first Dutch football manager in history of football that does not trust and develop young players from the youth system. Vice versa he is doing his best to destroy Klopp’s legacy, getting rid of Quasah and Elliott and doing his best to stop Rio’s development. Nyoni must be probably asking himself what is he doing at LFC fro two seasons.
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Every football team mirrors his manager on the pitch. For example Klopp’s Liverpool - energy, bravery, press, fight, heart. Slot’s Liverpool - lethargic, slow, uninterested, scared, primadonnas.
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If someone can explain me why Slot kept Wirtz for 90+ minutes, why Ngumoha was once again on the bench and why our midfield looks so fuckin slow.
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Gravenberch looks finished, just like Maca. Those muscle injures are not a coincidence. The lack of intensity is obvious and the only good thing from today is that after our shocking start /not the first time this season/ Manure did not destroy us.
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He, mr. Hughes and mr. Edwards must kiss the legs, hands and probably the ass of that old German guy Schmadtke who signed Szoboszlai, Maca and Gravenberch for Wirtz’s money.
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Why a smart manager will want to fix something that is not broken, i.e. perfectly working midfield trio and bring Wirtz who still has not scored or assisted in a match against the top 5 teams in the league.
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Why signing both Isak and Ekitike when it was obious that after the transfer of Diaz and the death of Jota we were short of proper wingers.
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Slot is the main reason we are parting ways with Salah, while today we had to watch a host of players, playing out of position - Wirtz as a false 9, Frimpong as a winger, Jones as a full back. Reminds me of Rodgers who played Bobby Firmino as a left winger, because he wanted to see his signing Benteke in attack. The same today, Slot starts his Dutch contingent and they were very, very poor once again.
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And the biggest problem at the moment is not Slot. The biggest problem is those who support him and keep him as a manager of Liverpool football club.
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Is there possibility that the malaise is because he’s already decided to jack it in in the summer?
The whole thing about being away from family and him not really having put down roots would suggest some disconnect between his life there and here.
The team don’t really look to be fighting for him at all. There’s not a lot of vocal public support from him from any of the squad. It’s all very bland in terms of what they’re saying and the body language is way off.
And he’s shown no real interest in developing young players here. It’s as if he’s not worried about gearing them up to be part of our long term future. If he’s not going to be here then why would you.
And then there’s the transfer business. Was that overhaul what he wanted in the summer. Were they the players he wanted. Did he not want to give Salah another contract, was overruled and that’s where that tension has come from. Was he really in board with the sale of Diaz? Lots has happened there and we know business is driven by others but maybe he feels his wishes haven’t been met.
And then there’s almost too much talk of him being here next season. It all feels very much briefed but at the same time not all that convincing. Almost “doth protest too much…” And his comments are just bizarre, almost those of a man happy to say anything, other than giving the game away, no matter how much it contradicts what we can all see with our own eyes.
I just wonder if it’s already known within the club that Slot is off and everything is about keeping a lid on it until we can secure CL football, if indeed we can do that. Until then the team is going through the motions somewhat as it’s hard to really get behind a manager you know is going.
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What did you call us when we’d gone 30 years from winning a league? We’re currently 1 away.
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I do hope you’re right. I just don’t see how such a savvy organisation thinks it worth the risk of starting next season poorly with Slot and the pressure it would inevitably heap on all of them. If they think this is bad enough then it would be nothing compared to the grief they’d get for sticking with him and throwing another season away. At least a new guy would be given a chance even if it meant some readjustment and patchy results in the short to medium term. Slot would never be allowed that leeway again and he’d probably take them all down with him.
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Not necessarily, there are many situations in football like that. It can change with time compared to early periods.