Not to mention we had a one-time chance to really set up the team for the next 7-8 years and so far it looks like we’ve spunked the dosh on players that don’t fit the mould of the team structure and identity that we have worked SO hard to build and establish.
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Pearce seems to think it’s curtains after that yesterday ;
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To be honest, I think I’ve been reading this particular article with this particular title for about two months now. I was frightened by the possibility of Brentford getting something out of Man City game yesterday because it would have all but guaranteed that Man City wouldn’t have anything to play for against Bournemouth - I’m actually relying on Man City getting a point from that match, so that we could get a point against either Villa (unlikely) or Brentford (possibly) to qualify for CL. If that’s not the most damning assessment of where we are at the moment, I don’t know what is.
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I thought the boos were “respectful”. Nothing too much, nothing too early. Just giving a message the fans are done. FSG will hear it.
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That’s what I mean when I say he’s lost his way here. It isn’t a binary thing, where he’s good or he’s shit. Plenty of coaches have struggled in a job, before going on to have a good career. That will be Slot.
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Ooh, aren’t you the fucking rebel. 
As long as it isn’t abusive or disrespectful, post whatever you want.
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I suspected when fans were booing the Rio sub, it would transpire that the lad needed to come off. In some ways the easiest thing for Slot to do if he were in survival mode, would be to have left him on, and fuck what the sports science, or lad himself, were saying.
The thing to take away from the booing is not that he was wrong to take off Rio, because if he was cramping as it was suggested, then it was absolutely the right thing to do. The thing that FSG should note, is that when it came necessary to make a decision that was never going to be unpopular, Slot did not have the grace and credit from the fans to make it.
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I think different fans have different breaking points, from the plastic who is disappointed when we only win by a single goal, to the diehard, who will only throw the towel in when we get relegated.
It’s been clear to me that something is not right with the coaching side of things all season. I’d hoped that Arne and his team would turn it around (I rather look forward to @Commando posting his optimistic message in the prematch thread).
I think the Spurs game was the final straw for me. There have been points in the season where we looked like we were improving, but it always slips back to the same dross that we saw yesterday: disorganised, lackadaisical, and frankly just unfit.
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The lack of fitness in the final 15mins yesterday was really, really shocking.
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It is to be remembered that the legacy Jurgen built up, he built up for the fans and the city. Jurgen painstakingly put us back at the top of the pile, a feat we could only dream about happening in the decades before he arrived.
The fact that Slot, alongside Hughes (btw, does anyone even know if Hughes has a personality..?), the fact that they have both decided to demonstrate their incompetence in handling what is, or was, a fanbase treasure, once again shows they are incapable of not just reading the room, but incapable of forging a relationship with the fanbase that make the club ever so special.
Slot and Hughes, in finally stepping out of the protective shadow of what Jurgen left us, and let’s not mince words here, have fucked up big time. The fact that match going fans, en-masse, are finally making their feelings heard, is nothing compared to what will be raining down on them if they don’t get their act together and start re-building the machine we know as the LFC of Shankly, Paisley, Fagan, Dalglish, Rafa and most important of all, the LFC/Anfield monolith we recognise as Jurgen Klopp’s body of work. In short, individuals that connected with the club, and pushed us onto great things.
I used to think we could never get anyone more self-centred than Bodgers, but we need to watch this space, we might just be witnessing at each press conference, the rise, yet a slowly unravelling of the worst ‘snake oil salesman’ to have conned their way into employment at Anfield.
Who wins this title between Slot and Hughes, well, we can take our pick… or declare it a draw..!
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@RedWhippet, @Mascot, that lack of fitness has been evident for months now. I wonder if more things are happening behind the scenes than coaches and players are letting on, or if it’s just the training regime that got messed up or just toned down for whatever reasons.
The subs, too, often look like momentum killers for us (if that can be called momentum) - the bench is paper-thin and players look even more lost once the changes are made. I’m sick of the sight of Chiesa looking at the referee with eyes and mouth wide open and that bewildered facial expression every time he commits a foul trying to keep the ball.
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Quite so. Just because he is struggling in his job, it doesn’t make him a terrible human being.
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That really is quite a feat considering how many minutes Chiesa has played this season.
Surely there’s a lot worst going on?
Isn’t this just an indication of the disconnect between what’s important and our wanting to point fingers at someone.
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You’ve SEEN Chiesa?
He actually exists?
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Btw…
The petition has now grown to 214k signatures.
https://x.com/SkySportsNews/status/2053401127144563085
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you must be running out of aliases and email addresses by now! 
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I’m sorry for you if you really think that; how can anyone be so twisted as to even suspect such a thing?
Are you seriously claiming I would forge this?
I wonder how many actually support a club called LFC and if so, are they of the online glory hunting variety…
I don’t want this to get an uglier, a decision needs to be made and allow Slot to leave with dignity. He deserves to hear his name sung in gratitude one more time before bowing out. What has happened this season is not all Slot’s fault. But it doesn’t look like he is able to remedy the situation so time to part ways. It was always going to be risky hiring a manger without previous experience at this level, we shouldn’t be shocked that he is finding it hard. Maybe given time he would improve, but LFC cannot give the time for that experiment.
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