Glasner recently said that he’s not glued to a 3 at the back system. He played many systems in his career and ideally his preferred one is 4-4-2. That said, I’m not saying I’d necessarily go for him.
When you are getting things like this on various outlets you can see things are bad
Having just got home from Anfield I feel I have to write this. I am usually quite mild and forgiving, but it is going to take some time for Slot to be forgiven by me and many other fans, some of whom near to me left the ground before half time. He has just disrespected the League Cup, disrespected 60,000 paying fans and, more importantly, disrespected Anfield. I cannot recall another Liverpool manager ever doing that. He had to select a squad of 18 for tonight’s match, which he knew would be against a virtually first-team squad from Crystal Palace, yet he included 2 first team players himself! Those fans pay your wages Arne! We played the full game with virtually 10 players in any case as I would really struggle to justify giving Trey Nyoni 1 point our of 10, yet Slot left him on for the entire game. Morrison was also clearly out of his depth against this quality of opponent. If I were FSG, I would be asking him in no uncertain terms to explain himself tomorrow morning and justify what he did tonight. He should also be made to do the same in front of the fan’s forum. I just had to get that off my chest as I have never before felt such anger in 25 years of going to Anfield.
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We did have a season outside European competitions under Klopp, right? For the record, what was your patience at that point with Klopp, and will it be same or different with Slot if that happens now?
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There’s always a limit, there has to be. And while the results are alarming we can only comment on what we see on the field. There’s do much going on behind it.
One thing that is certain to me is that I’m terrified of becoming United or Chelsea if we start down the route knee jerk manager swaps depending on what phase the moon is in.
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I dont think he disrespected the Cup as loads of teams who have nothing else to play for except this and the FA Cup still put out ressies and kids.
But I do think the fans were disrespected. No one should be paying to watch 9 kids and the bench was something else. Id not heard of any of them bar Gordon.
What he has done has put himself under immense pressure because the next 3 games are tough and I think if he loses them all or 2 from 3 the owners will have a decision to make because to me its not a blip anymore its more like a rot has set in. All these players cannot just lose form in a few weeks. Yes I know the Jota death has played a huge part but its more than that.
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That is a long way off, I don’t think we’ll go down that erratic behaviour.
We are still early in the tenures of Edwards’ new role and Hughes at the club, so there is a little question mark, but I think the club overall is pretty stable.
What is worrying now is what type of damage could happen on the pitch this season…
It’s still relatively early enough, we can still improve, compete and win certain things. Though we might lose the title in the next week or two, depending on results.
But CL football is the minimum, that would be really disappointing is this squad can’t achieve it. And as always, a season without a trophy at Liverpool is not good.
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Of course I agree it has to stop, it’s very annoying and causes an uphill battle from there…
Do you remember this being a pre-Slot problem though?
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Sound. Right now, I’d put Salah with Ekitike up top, and wait for Isak to show he’s ready (probably give him minutes in the league and possibly more in other games).
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It is, though, fine margins.
Gakpo’s thrice woodwork, one of them in, different game. Beaten everyone, 1 inch off making it. If it was once, I’d say yeah, can happen, but three times you do expect one to make you a favour.
Set pieces? It’s not an exaggeration. In a league table with only open play goals, we’d be top, level with City, and Arsenal way below. Of course it doesn’t matter, but it highlights what a difference it makes if we sort out our set pieces both defensively and offensively. The offensive signs were encouraging vs Frankfurt, if we can carry them vs a team that defends them better. The defensive signs were encouraging vs Palace last night, I wasn’t worried in any set pieces the way we defended them - it seemed Slot had spent time on them, and I’d expect the starting 11 to show a similar approach (or so I hope).
I understand how the Dutch approach of saying it how it is, gets annoying when not used to it, when done repetitively, and especially when losing, but it is fine margins.
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That would be a shame. The reason I’ve stayed on here, and also follow the Anfield Wrap, is that there has tended to be more rational discussion, compared to the hyperbole and bedwetting on social media. The match threads are the exception and if the rest of the forum becomes like that then I’d be off too.
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Looking at that list, I find it quite odd that we’ve had so many away games on a trot, with the exception of the game against utd. This ‘fixture program’, or how they call it, is odd, no two ways about it.
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Absolutely.
I completely ignore my phone while the game is on (I have no idea how you follow the game and type messages at the same time) and also mostly ignore the post-match threads, too. Sometimes I might pop in when it calms down, not immediately after the final whistle.
I rather pick to discuss different topics (either player threads or attacking/defending) in separate threads where the conversation isn’t basically a textual coverage form livescore or something. Good posts get lost a little bit.
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We’ve had some differences in the past, but I’m with you on Slot and the situation, and I do think that in general TAN would be a worse place without you. I hope it’s just a frustration and you won’t be off.
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I rarely post during a match, though I sometimes look at half time.
Its never good reading
I’m not for Slot being sacked right now, but this is a good call, and certainly one to watch for the case that the wheels come off. But we aren’t at that point yet by any means.
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Out of order to be fair.
@Mascot is a forum member as well as a Mod, with the same right to his viewpoint as anyone else.
You, or anyone here hasn’t got a monopoly on opinion.
He doesn’t share yours, so have the argument without this type of shit response?
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I’m not fishing for this, honest! 
I do remember what it got like towards the end of Rafa and Rodgers, and at times even Klopp, with everyone’s hands round each others throats and I don’t want that again - and since I don’t think there is a cat in hell’s change he is getting sacked this season, and we already have posters suggesting he should be or it’s a conversation the other side of a few more fixtures, I can only see it heading that way, with more and more frustrated and angry posters looking for excuses to boot the boot in.
There was a great point on the Anfield Wrap last night, defending the team selection. Slot is not going to play the first team in this round of a domestic cup under normal circumstances. It would be more worrying for him to suddenly, out of nowhere, decide to play the first team in this game because he really needs a win. That would be a manager abandoning his principles out of sheer desperation.
Losing tonight changes nothing about Saturday. Nothing at all. Exactly the same pressure.
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My take is that Slot needs to maintain all his ideas and principles he went into this season with, and patiently drum them into his newly formed squad. The moment we can sense that he’s changing his principles in order to get short term results (Rodgers did that towards the end), then we’ll know that his end is inevitable.
If he remains true to the ideas which convinced his bosses to appoint him in the first place, brought success in his first year, and also convinced some top class players to join his project during the summer, he’ll be fine and get the necessary time to resolve the ongoing crisis.
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I’ve actually started watching Bournemouth games and reading Bournemouth-related articles with more interest since we entered this downward spiral. Iraola and Glasner are two obvious candidates for Liverpool job if/when it becomes available but I feel that, regardless of what happens with Slot, it won’t be before the summer that club appoint a new, permanent head coach. Iraola does come off as a great fit on all fronts, though he would have to make a compromise on his rule of signing one-year rolling contracts.
Obviously, we all hope that Slot will turn this crisis around but it’s looking worse with every passing match. It’s not quite Leicester’s defence of the title but I’m not seeing even a flicker of the light at the end of the tunnel.
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