To play the devil’s advocate for a while… Therein lies the key (probably) to Slot remaining the head coach here, though, otherwise I think he would have been dismissed months ago. Even with Alonso’s availability, maybe the powers that be at the club didn’t think he would bring any notable improvement over Slot, while the “better” options were unavailable at the time?
That said… What options are there? When Klopp left, the club (according to Liverpool-related journos) contacted Alonso’s agent to test the waters, then swiftly moved on to Slot. So, I got the impression it would have been either a youngish manager who won the German league or a youngish manager who won the Dutch league.
To me, it seems like this time the club won’t be able to appoint a manager/head coach with trophy-winning experience if they sack Slot, so we would have to afford quite some patience to the new guy, something we as fan base haven’t done since… 2012?
Anyway, I don’t think Slot is turning this ship around and I don’t have a replacement in my mind to support other than Iraola. One thing that Iraola might have over Slot is that he had a very difficult spell with Bournemouth earlier this season that he managed to majestically turn around and possibly lead them to their first ever CL participation at the expense of…
