Arne Slot - Head Coach (Part 2)

The Albert
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He isn’t getting sacked full stop.

Loads of posters here are talking themselves into the idea that it’s just a matter of time. He can’t survive the United game. They have to sack him after the Chelsea game. He can’t survive the Villa game. Obviously it will be after the Brentford game. As soon as champions league is secured. As soon as it is beyond us. After this game. After the next one. Surely now. Surely now

The obvious conclusion based on everything we know is that FSG are committed to him and he isn’t going anywhere.

All the reliable journalists are briefing this. There have been mitigating factors. Jota. Bedding in new players. Injuries etc.

Meanwhile (and this tops it for me) they are seemingly prepared to sit back and watch the outstanding candidate for the job - someone they were rumoured to be keen on prior to him ruling himself out - sign up for Chelsea.

They have been happy to leave CL qualification in the balance until the last day of the season, when the obvious thing to do with a coach you aren’t all in on would be bullet him months ago.

He isn’t getting sacked.

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Ronaldo to Juventus then onto Man Utd cost around £100M in total,
he was around 33 when he signed for Juve

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So… is he out yet? …

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Is that a biscuit eating contest? It sounds like my kind of thing :wink:

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There has to be a lunatic buyer knocking about.

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Saudis? Would he go there though?

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Losing to AV is embarassing but not catastrophic if it is a one-off result. However, losing to CP, Wolves, Brighton and Sunderland, drawing with the poorest versions of Chelsea and Tottenham, Burnley and Sunderland is pretty unacceptable in any way even with mitigating factors.

BTW, I do not count excessive number of season-ending injuries as a mitigating factor when it is poor physical conditioning that leads to that kinda injury. As for Isak, it is also our own makings for not discouraging him from downing tools in pre-season and failure to get him up to speed for nearly 1 full season.

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I would imagine they’d love to take him, but Salah has Liverpool over a barrel really. He is on the kind of money that Liverpool simply can’t afford to pay a squad player and if we want that contract gone Mo can dictate terms.

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Is it mad to think that if (for example) Xabi comes in then Mo could have a change of heart about leaving this summer and see out his contract?

I think at least half of the issue this season has been Slot not supporting him more tactically and then falling out with him publicly.

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Isak injury was down to poor physical conditioning? Bradley injury was down to poor physical conditioning?

If you have some inside knowledge or professional insight in this field could you please share…

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I hope not. I think Salah’s time has come irrespective of who’s in charge. Same goes for Alisson and Van Dijk.

We need to be starting a new chapter and those wages need to go.

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Do you think the club want that?

Let’s be honest - Salah has dropped off massively this season, and the assumption that we all had - that he was in such amazing shape and condition that he could have Ronaldo like longevity - has been starkly exposed this year.

It’s not just Slot’s tactics. You can see it in Mo’s performances. Things that would have come easily in the past look so difficult for him now, and it isn’t ridiculous to think if the chances that have come to him this year fell to only last years Mo, he would have got 10-15 more goals.

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It’s so important to separate injuries out into fatigue/fitness related and just the bad luck of getting clattered.

We have been really unlucky with a lot of the injuries, but at the same time the squad size and the general lack of fitness has contributed too.

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I am not a drinker, but having this guy at the helm, I should imagine is akin to watching your favourite pub burn down in front of you and there is not a thing you can do about it…

Anyone know if he is at work today..? maybe even tomorrow..?
or has he hopped on a plane and gone AWOL again…

I sometimes wonder whether we are suffering from a ‘double or even triple whammy’ here… In such, dedication and devotion to the job at hand has never been given 100% commitment by him, coupled with the fact Slot has been found wanting from a tactical perspective due to his piss poor man-management skills…

I bet amongst other youngsters at LFC, Calvin Ramsay can’t wait to be given a chance to be assessed by our next manager.!

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At this moment Slot is not the problem any more. Hughes, Edwards and FSG are the main cuplrits, sticking with Arne.

Very soon Xabi Alonso will not be available any more and we will be with a broken man at the helm of the club for next season. The morons that are running the club think that next season will be different, but the signs are clear for more than 14 months and our players are deteriorating with every passed week.

Players are not the big problem. For example people are criticizing McAllister, but let’s take a look around our squad.

Frimpong looks really poor, Kerkez regressed and is nowhere near his level at Bournemouth, Konate is having a shocking season, even Virgil is playing the worst season in a Liverpool shirt. Gravenberch started relatively well the first 5 matches of the campaign and from then he is absolutely poor, Maca is shocking, even Dom is having a pretty avarege season.

Gakpo is awful, Salah is playing the worst season of his career, Isak is poor, Wirtz is nowhere near the level that is expected from him. Ekitike had a very good start, but with the development of the season he lost his for and was another long term injury.

The whole bunch of our leading players are in a poor form and they have their own share of blame, but it is easy to see where is the bigger problem. No pressing, no clear plan on the pitch, no character, only absurd excuses - the teams are defending deep and that is not good for us. When teams attack us, the excuse is individual mitakses. When we concede late goals, the excuse is bad luck. Month ago we had a lot of games, so the manager did not have enough time to work on the pitch. For a month we are playing all the time with a full week to rest, but the manager goes on a holiday and the players rest and still we look slow, clueless and disorientated.

And the funny thing is that every reliable journo says that FSG intend to stick with Slot for next season?!? Tolerating mediocracy is not the best way to have the fans on your side. I am missing Mike Gordon, he was a very smart man and appointed Klopp when we needed a big personality to lead us out of the mess that Rodgers created.

Now the owners, Hughes, Edwards and Slot are slowly destroying Klopp’s legacy. Very, very soon the fans will turn against all of them.

Because the normal fans that are paying hard earned money and get this shit show won’t spend fortunes forever, while the people running the club are laughing at their faces.

Sack Slot, while you still have time to find a top manager who can fix the mountain of problems created by Edwards, Hughes, Slot and his staff!!!

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Really?

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If FSG are serious owners they are sacking Slot,Hughes and Edwards the day after the final game of the season.

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Guess they aren’t serious owners then.

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Isak downed tools at NUFC’s pre-season. It also didn’t help that he is injury prone as fuck even at NUFC. We still signed him with the blessing of Slot despite that.

Once he got back from that serious injury at the THFC match, we still continued to throw him into the deep end without any proper recovery days afterwards.

Now, have you ever wondered why we rarely see any pictures or videos of players in this season doing recovery baths compared to the last regime?

Let’s move on to Bradley.

Bradley’s longest layoff before his current injury was in the 23/24 season with a bad back for 128 days. That’s upper body btw which never came back.

In the 24/25 season, he was out for 82 days in total for the whole season. All on the lower body.

Let’s look at how he got his current injury with this video.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T7AUFvS9Oxo

Absolutely no one around him and a trip on his own leg gave him a season ender. It is later revealed to be Ligament and bone damage. While you cannot strengthen the ligament itself but you sure as hell can strengthen the muscles around it via proper physical conditioning and diet. Again, it points to really really poor conditioning coupled with a lack of proper recovery…

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Who knows? Slot is may be off again at the nearby Manchester Airport, going to meet his family again?

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