What’s his views on the diamond?
Yeah, but if this can be the springboard for something else I’ve been meaning to write for a while, you know what else is uncharted territory? Having a player killed in a fucking car crash.
How quickly we forget what these lads and this manager have been through. How blithely we gloss over this gaping chasm in their lives and their working environment.
In the days that followed the crash, once the footballing implications had started to become tentatively discussed, did anyone else have the same thought that I had - this season might be really tough for the players? Mo Salah said in an interview he wasn’t looking forward to coming back after the tragedy, and what a surprise, he’s played like shit.
I’ve been calling for patience for footballing reasons - Slot has credit in the bank for winning the league, he has shown what he can do, and he needs time to shape his new team. The club gives managers time when they need it.
But we also need to remember that this ‘bald waste of space’ ((c) the ironically named @YoullNeverWalkAlone) also had to guide his team through a challenge unlike any other manager has had to face this summer. And he did so incredibly well.
So, from me, he gets patience and fucking loads of it. Because he, and the team, deserve it.
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4 years ago we lost 6 in 8, which I suppose isn’t much better.
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I think the point is comparing transfer fees from genartion to genertion is pointless. The first 8 figure transfer fee wasn’t till 1996 with the 15m Shearer move 4 years after the start of the Premier league.
Was that the Covid season (the actual one not the one we wrapped up before Covid happened)?
We’ve won 4 games in preseason and started the season with 7 wins but now we’re using Diogos death for the recent result.
Doesn’t work for me.
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Yep. CB crisis, Hendo and Fab taking turns back there.
Also under Kenny in 11/12 we lost 6 in 7 (albeit league only), where we scraped through Cardiff on pens in the cup final.
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I agree its poor deflection.
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Stop it.
No-one at the club will ever use this as an excuse. They will never do that.
But if you watched these players and this manager have to deal with that this summer, have to lay flowers at Anfield clearly heartbroken. If you cried for a lad you never met and wondered how on earth these boys would pick themselves up to play football again, and then a couple of months later you are calling them all fucking useless, and demanding the manager be sacked, then, to be frank, fucking shame on you.
Our best player last season said was dreading coming back to work. How do you think the rest of them feel?
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It was the Pickford kung fu attack season
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You have no fucking idea how it has impacted on the team and Slot. It isn’t getting discussed. Everyone has moved on and is pretending it never happened.
But I bet you anything when the stories of this season is told in retrospect, these players will talk about how much it’s affected them.
I’m not saying it’s the sole reason for our struggles, and I’m not saying Slot is blameless, but I do think we all need to take a deep breath, calm the fuck down, and remember that a few months ago the question was how these players would play football again, never mind win a league title.
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You’re not really helping people calming down by typing fcking and fck every second words.
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Yeah post season winning season… maybe it’s another factor as we looked rough even earlier in that season. 7-2 against Villa springs to mind.
I think this is it in the end, Klopp found a solution, can Slot. Let’s see.
We looked ropey even before Pickford’s assault against Everton (well according to the official anyhow as I was wandering around Belem near Lisbon in the lovely sunshine). Then again they had just won the title.
Sorry. I’m cross. I’m really fed up of seeing people making kneejerk calls about sacking the manager, when we have no idea what the playing staff are going through.
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I do know what its like to lose a close work mate and how impacts the work environment so pipe down and stop been a prick.
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That season we were 7 points clear after beating Palace 7 nil so we weren’t that ropey.
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So do I, and it was hard to go to work for a long time. That’s why I feel we are not giving them nearly enough understanding and patience.
Did you, a couple of months later, feel able to put it all behind you and crack on like nothing happened?
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What happened was awful. But even if someone is of the opinion that this is a reasonable expectation for a group who went through that, there is also a reality that when things are going poorly sometimes things can spiral to a point that it is unsalvageable without a change.
We need to be adult enough to acknowledge that this is bad and the signs for why are even worse. And even if we dont want to see it result in exits, even if we think it wouldnt have got here without the tragedy of the summer, it does no good to pretend that we are not moving in a direction that puts it on the cards.
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Bringing up Diogos death now is an embarrassing attempt to distract from the other stuff that is going wrong. Shouldn’t even be brought up at this point.
I’ve lost my father a few days after we lost Diogo. My boss said I can take as much time as I need. Three weeks later I’ve started working again and at least at work it feels like nothing changed. Went straight back to 100%.
So can I now switch back to third gear until Christmas and use my loss as an excuse?
Good Night.
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