No point him being on the bench then…
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Maybe it is, but Mourinho can be despicably cruel to other human beings without being pressed into a corner or under extreme stress. And there is a power imbalance between him and those who he is too cruel as well, which always makes it worse. I cannot remember him ever trying to be particularly kind to anyone (though I am sure he is). I have enormous respect for his knowledge about football, that he has worked hard and all of that. But he walks over people in a way I don’t like. I suspect there are many victims, having struggled with their mental health after having suffered continous abuse from Mourinho. But that’s just a suspicion of course.
Rest of what you wrote may be true, but I don’t know. But you may be quite right, certainly can look like it’s very close to the truth.
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Is it?
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Tbh, that’s back when I still found what he did pretty funny. Over ten years ago.
A big part of Mourinho’s style is the need for a scapegoat
It doesn’t take long to make lots of enemies in the relatively small space of a football club first team squad. And that basically ends his time at that club.
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Exactly this. There is a performative element to the outrage, where it isn’t enough that he is a decent man who has ended up out his depth. He also has to be a cunt as well.
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Arne is not a cunt. Just unlikeable and deluded. I’m sure he’s a good family man but I doubt there are many players who enjoy working with him.
I think Slot dealt with Diogos loss in the best way possible towards public and media. Probably better than Klopp would - I’d imagine Jürgen would talk about it constantly and say stuff like ‚we’re doing it for Diogo’.
But other than that Slot has failed with everything. Really struggle to see any positives. By Liverpool standards his season is a D-
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I think he is a good coach and a decent man, who has got himself lost in the weeds. The job just looks increasingly beyond him and he is either not being listened to or what he’s doing isn’t working. He’ll go on to have a good career (if I were him I’d have jumped at the Ajax job) but it looking really doubtful that it will be here.
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Based on what? Can name any players he improved this season? Can you tell me what his idea of football is?
By the way I don’t think it would be a good idea to return to the Netherlands so quick. Some PL teams like Chelsea, Villa, Newcastle will offer him jobs in the near future and also German CL clubs like Dortmund, Leverkusen and Leipzig. Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord can wait.
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Sorry he’s a good coach when we look worse now than we did last August.
It’s much simpler, Slot is just uninspiring, and we have always been a seat of your pants firebrand club, and they dont go together. It was piss poor recruitment to profile him to replace Klopp.
Let’s hope this season is a fuckign unicorn as well then.
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We can quibble about what it means to be a good “coach” - I think Slot has a really good footballing mind, but if the mark of a good coach is one who’s able to strategize effectively, implement his tactics effectively, and man manage effectively, then I’m not sure if there’s enough for me to qualify him as being good. He certainly has not been a good coach this year.
But I agree with you otherwise. I would think that Ajax would be the perfect landing spot for him, but I wonder how he’d feel about working for the club which just sacked Heitinga. He certainly couldn’t bring back Heitinga to Ajax as an assistant.
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I think it’s a bit hyperbolic to say worse than Hodgson’s time - I doubt anything will ever again be as bad for us as that was - but I definitely feel the parallels to this and Rodgers’ last season*.
Out of his depth coach failing to connect with his players, delivering crap, uninspired football and continually trying different things in a vain attempt to somehow hit upon the magic solution that will stop us being shit.
It’s just a mismatch, and a job that is simply too big for him. It happens. Everyone involved needs to let go of their own ego, admit it’s not worked out, go their separate ways and allow us all to move on and try to forget this season ever happened.
*it was slightly sobering earlier to realise we need 3 more points from the games against Villa and Brentford (which I think is far from guaranteed) to even reach the same points total as that season. Dire.
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And we’re at points total this low without having many/any of those “we were unlucky there” days. In fact we are probably a bit lucky to be where we are. We are a few individual moments of class away from being out of Europe altogether.
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An new online petition demanding Slots’ resignation has now gathered over 64,000 signatures. I’d rather not post the link, I might get banned for it.
But if anyone wants the link, feel free to message me.
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Send it to me I‘m going to post it
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A bunch of empty seats didn’t help, that was seen around the world!
Inclined to agree with this,a parallel with Hodgson seems a bit OTT.
He is certainly out of his depth here as many would be, but he keeps on flogging the dead horse ,and carries on about next year.
If he realises he is in too far why the hell can’t he just shut up till season end and disappear gracefully.He seems to think he is much better than he is.!
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The concern with hodgson were less about Roy as everyone knew he was not up to it. The concerns were about how fucked the club were that Roy was a viable candidate. I think Roy got off lightly because so few expected much more from him…he was not the problem.
This season under slot is generating angst not just because it’s a wasted opportunity, but because of concerns of how much of the hard earned progress of the last decade we’ve unraveled and Slot is feel8ngbthe heat because of how much of that sits at his feet
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