I saw talk about the same John Henry interview a day or so ago (I’m on new meds and haven’t slept so I’m a bit out of it with respect to time) but the interview was based on the Red Sox getting rid of their coach.
Obviously people are using the not settling line to draw parallels with us but I don’t know whether I’d read too much into it.
A lot of people reading a lot into everything. Ok.
So, normal discourse
Yeah, but it’s all a bit bit feverish at the minute. John Henry makes vague statement, and it definitely means Slot is going. Really?
Another factor in this is that John Henry rarely speaks. So when we get a morsel, it will be dissected! Especially given the current situation.
There are three options for Slot:
John Henry’s comments tell me that option one or two are most likely. If the decision has already been made to keep Slot then Henry could have easily put all the speculation to bed. He stopped some way short of that.
The other factor - and it is a large factor, is who is available. If the club had/has designs on Xabi Alonso, the stars may never align more perfectly than now for it to happen.
I appreciate that this could just be my own wishes coming to the fore, but I think my own wishes align with what is most likely to happen.
Alonso next boss. Announced quickly. Onwards and upwards.
Slot to be graciously mutually consented - is right, he won us the league and any Liverpool manager is worthy of dignity. He will get some cash and rock up at Ajax or similar to rebuild.
John Henry makes a statement, someone has sn opinion. That’s all it is mate.
And yes.
If he stays he gets support.
I would liken it to bringing in Mourinho, you would absolutely win a trophy in the first season. But it comes at a heavy cost.
Dull football, loss of promising youngsters, unhappy players and general disfunction. The next manager then has a massive job of undoing that damage. The entire club goes backward at an alarming pace.
Some people believe the ends justify the means. At philosophical level I don’t.
I have one in me a month. As of tomorrow you are all going back on notice.
Ive avoided using that framing because I know it would generate a negative reaction and a big part of me feels its unfair, but yeah, I think there are similarities. The approach is different. Hell, even the level of purposefulness about it are different. But this season is bad not because of the lost opportunity, but because it is looking like its going to end with a lot of broken pieces that need to be very carefully put back together, which is not a “buy 2 new wingers and we’re good” sort of fix, but something that will take a few years.
What gets me the most is that he was supposed to continue Klopp’s work, and he’s done the opposite.
He can be considered as a failed appointment on these grounds alone.
Even my dad asks me almost everyday if Slot has been fired, or why FSG hasn’t fired him yet. My dad never wants anyone fired lightly. See what the bloody hell Slot is doing to my dad’s mental health! 
It’ll be funny in a few weeks when David Ornstein reports something like “There’s been lots of speculation that Slot’s departure was driven by FSG, but my sources close to the club indicate that it was indeed Slot’s decision and that FSG were prepared to move forward if he wanted to stay.”
Fair enough!
Glasner has made gotten CP to a cup final despite losing his best CB mid season, Emery has gotten AV to a cup final & potentially an UCL placing, Bournemouth had a huge exodus of players and is making into UCL or UEL depending on AV’s performance in the domestic league and their Europa final and to a small part of us fucking up 4th spot.
3 coaches who lost players and didn’t had a lot of money to replace them are doing pretty well for their budgets.
Contrast that to Arne Slot who kept whining and gaslighting the fans despite given a huge transfer budget, only to scrape top 4…
In fairness, with his record, it would be more of a failure for him to not win that cup.
and it’s all down to great recruitment and forward thinking…
I think my Child and my Ex-Wife are getting fed up with him being here, purely because of my complaining every time I have to listen to him giving an interview.
I was trying my best to get around the dire performances however his interviews just make me dislike him more every time I have to listen to him.
“The standards are not only important in the gym.” That sentence lingered. It was agreed that they are important everywhere at a football club, at which point Slot appeared to glare: “It’s also on the pitch. OK.” When the conversation then moved on, he returned to add to his previous answer. “You understand me? Without me saying anything?” Slot did not want to pick a fight publicly with any player, but it seemed pointed. Clearly, Salah’s output on the pitch has dropped this season, along with a number of players. Yet the key theme in all of this is that criticism, and concern, is coming directly from the mouths of the players. Members of the first team have been as hard as anyone about the failure to mount a credible title defence without subsequently being able to deliver the performances to fix matters. [Paul Joyce]
https://x.com/TimesSport/status/2052875739964244083
This is a remarkable article by Joyce
Arne Slot says he doesn’t believe signings are needed to improve leadership: “I’m not saying that we need to sign them. I think we have them already. "As I said, senior players are not the only ones who set the standards at a club.
If I look at Paris Saint-Germain: Desire Doue is 20, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is 25. Can they set standards for another generation or for a team? "I don’t know what time they are in the gym, by the way. But I do know they set the right standards on the pitch. "And this is what Mo did when he was 26. I don’t think it comes down to ages that only 32 or 33-year-old players can set standards. They have lived it and experienced it and know what it takes to play at this level.
“But come on, we are not talking about Florian Wirtz or Hugo Ekitike or Alexander Isak and all these players we signed. They are not children, these are serious professionals that now know what it takes to play in the Premier League and Champions League at this level.”
Arne Slot gripped the top of the chair he was standing over, his fingers digging into the fabric, and tried to bite his lip.
“I wish I was able to say what I feel at this moment, but I can’t,” Liverpool’s head coach confessed.