Slot’s made a rod for his own back tonight. If you’re going to put a team like that out - basically throwing everyone under the bus - and put in a performance as inept and incipid as anything seen at Anfield in decades, and have fucking absolutely no-one of calibre to bring off the bench then you better have a pretty good plan for the weekend.
It’s virtually must win against Villa especially with Madrid and City to come. No improvement in the next 3 after more or less throwing tonight’s match then I’d expect the club to be considering replacement.
As to the Jota nonsense being spoken on here words fucking fail me.
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This is why we spent all that money in the summer so we were told. This is why we shipped out Elliott and Quansah and replaced them so we were told because it gave us no benefit having players in the first team squad who didnt allow for that City like rotation.
Yeah, these comments are not good.
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Who takes over, whether that be interim or permanently?
IMO it would confirm to me that we’re directionless at a level above and beyond the manager as well.
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But while we are discussing why we are in this wretched run of form, we do need to acknowledge that it did happen.
Yeah, it’s almost like that’s what will happen if you give 90% of your squad the night off and pack the team and bench with teenagers.
And at work, is there an empty space where your dad used to sit that you have to look at while you’re there. Do forty thousand people sing your dad’s name twenty minutes into your working day?
Maybe you should acknowledge that the two situations are not comparable?
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If that makes you feel better to focus on it but it doesn’t change anything in terms of what needs to be done if people start determining the slide is irrevocable
[and I didnt mean that in a shitty way]
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We had to start running the plant 10 days later after the HSE and West Yorkshire Police finished there investigation. It was our job it wasn’t easy pasing the equipment every shift but we had to put in the maximum effort we had to fulfil orders to get paid. I couldn’t mope around control room saying im not up to it tonight.
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The ‘Jota Nonsense’. Jesus. Let’s ask Mo Salah is ‘nonsense’ is the right word to use.
This isn’t a post match thread. This is about Arne Slot and his performance as Liverpool manager.
If we can’t discuss and acknowledge a monumental issue that Slot had to deal with just a few months ago in the context of his performance, then words fail me too.
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And he’d also be the first moan if we had a first team squad of 30+ players.
He’s cracking the calm demeanour he showed is disappearing fast.
Any Liverpool manager who loses 6 in 7 will be under pressure. Rightly so. That’s obviously not the required standard.
It’s up to Slot to demonstrate he can fix it. If not, he should be replaced. Winning games is more important than sticking with someone out of a sense of misplaced loyalty.
He won’t be sacked yet, but he does need to get on with improving things pronto. So far, there hasn’t been any indication he knows how to fix it.
Pretending this run of form isn’t concerning is pure delusion.
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If we resembled anything like a competent football team right now then you might, might, have a point.
This fucking shambles can’t be put down to Jota’s loss.
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I don’t think you can compare us ordinary people to professional athletes in this case. We have a mental coach at the club for a reason. It’s not just about going to work, it’s about top-level sport. This whole discussion is pointless, because even if there were no differences at all, everyone processes setbacks differently.
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Yeah we got a 20 minute chat with a NHS grief councillor who was over worked and under paid and I had to go back and do my job. Nothing like the pampering footballers get today.
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My best mate died 15 years ago. I was a similar age to these lads. It hit far harder than the loss of older relatives, but it didn’t properly hit me for months, even a year after.
I got on with work and life as a distraction. There’s no distraction for these lads. His locker is still in the dressing room. His song gets sang every game. Then they have the pressure of playing in front of 60k people with constant scrutiny. We know elite sport is about fine margins and a drop off of 1-2% can have a massive impact.
I find the lack of empathy from our fanbase quite sad. The irony of singing the words of YNWA every game
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What I think it should change is the patience and understanding we have for these players and this manager.
I’ve gone in really hard on Mo Salah this season. Times up. Legs have gone. Should be dropped. Fucking furious he scored that goal etc etc.
Then, by pure coincidence earlier in the week I saw that interview again that he did where he spoke about how he was dreading coming back. He looked broken. It was clearly affecting him.
And I just felt ashamed of myself.
So, no it doesn’t change much. It’s a results business, and Mo isn’t delivering. You can’t keep a player in the team on sentimentality. But maybe I could bear in mind what happened this summer and at least not be such a dick about it.
If performances don’t improve the club is going to be forced into a decision, and we all know that. But do we need to be dicks about it? Bald headed waste of space? There is a lad in post match talking about slot not knowing who the players he picked are. We hear about him buying players without a plan.
There is a point where the criticism becomes unreasonable, over the top and performative. That’s what I have a problem with.
Where is the lack of empathy 
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What’s the first thing to do after tonight’s loss? Checking out City’s lineup of course.
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I’m not saying it’s as binary as that. It’s part of the cocktail of shit. It isn’t the entire issue.
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