Arne Slot - Head Coach

[TheSweetSilverSong]

@Nikola

Iraola and Glasner are two obvious candidates for Liverpool job if/when it becomes available

Please start a rumour thread about it.

[Hope.in.your.heart]

@FowlersLeftPeg

Personally, I am not in the camp looking to pile in on the team, I just think it needs time. I don’t think we are seeing anywhere near the best from this team. I would argue we have built a nucleus for a team that will last the next 5 years and we just need to be patient, it might be a season of nothing at the minute, but it won’t always be this way.

My thoughts anyway, probably the ramblings of a madman to most, I rarely contribute anymore, but felt the urge to contribute.

Completely agree with you, mate, and it’s good to see you posting in here again.

[Retro_Helix]

@RER

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.

Would you still be saying the above if we were actually playing like champions and were top of the league table?

I mean the Carabao Cup was never important when we were winning and fielding a second-string squad was always welcomed for this cup in the past.

[Zoran]

No major trophy isn’t important at a club like this.

There are priorities, but every competition and every game is important.

[Limiescouse]

@FowlersLeftPeg

This is before factoring in the number of new arrivals, normally in the past, under Klopp new lads would have time to settle, these lads have all been thrown into the 11.

The experience of Robbo and Fabs has supported a lot of myth building about this. Under Klopp, when we spent proper money on a player who was not a development or squad option they invariably went straight into the side.

Matip, Virgil (not sure he’d even had a training session), Gini, Keita, Mo, Sadio, Diaz…all regulars from day 1. And so in that context with the profile of the players we bought it should have been expected that most of them would be playing from the off.

[aussielad]

For those in the North West and those that are match going fans, what is the feeling in the stands?

I ask this, as whilst you can hear chatter online about any and every issue, FSG tend to hold the opinion of the match going fans in a lot higher esteem than those fans posting online. A classic example of this was when they first took over and backed Roy as the manager, and very quickly fans were venting frustration at the performances and calling for him to be sacked, but it wasn’t until the fans inside Anfield started to vocally express their opinions in chanting Kenny’s name during matches in December/January that the board acted.

[RedWhippet]

@Limiescouse

Virgil (not sure he’d even had a training session),

I seem to recall that he played a game after signing and then it was managed minutes until he was up to full fitness?

[Flobs]

@Zoran

System as in the formation?

No system as in tactics. They were exactly the same as all the other matches.
I never concentrate on formation. There’s 11 players for each team on the pitch.

[aussielad]

Yep, he played a cup game against Everton, then had from memory 4-5 weeks of managed minutes as he rehabed an injury and built up his match fitness

[dildoswaggins]

Outstanding post, I too am interested to hear from fans who can go every week to watch the games.

[Limiescouse]

@aussielad

Yep, he played a cup game against Everton, then had from memory 4-5 weeks of managed minutes as he rehabed an injury and built up his match fitness

He missed 2 of the next 4 games, alternating, while managing a niggle so its a meaningfully different situation than the argument that has become so popular that Klopp gave his new singings time to get settle before blooding them.

It happened to Robbo because he was bought very much as a development option who just ultimately blossomed, and Fabs because he was struggling. In pretty much every case our big signings were getting regular games as soon as they were available and fit

[SBYM]

Rideo…which one of you is Jason?

[SBYM]

I’m thinking Jason is a glass-half-empty kind of bloke.

[Notasuperfan]

@TheSweetSilverSong

We did have a season outside European competitions under Klopp, right?

The only time LFC had a season outside of any European places was in 16/17 when he took over from Brendan Rodgers midway through the season.

The only 2 times LFC was outside top 4 was the aforementioned 16/17 and the 22/23 seasons where the 22/23 season saw the defensive and midfield crisis. LFC has a net spent of 50m GBP in the 22/23 season btw to finish 5th.

The situations were completely different from now..

[gasband]

Slot is not unsackable.

But cmon, a run of a few losses is all it takes for us to turn on a title winning manager? Shudders if it had happened to Klopp. We are very happy to disregard all the factors of new players trying to blend in and losing a great player in Jota unfortunately. We can say Slot should have anticipate this. Yes he should indeed but to demand that he be sacked because he had not gotten it right within the first 9 games of the league is ridiculous.

[TheSweetSilverSong]

@Notasuperfan

The only time LFC had a season outside of any European places was in 16/17 when he took over from Brendan Rodgers midway through the season.

The only 2 times LFC was outside top 4 was the aforementioned 16/17 and the 22/23 seasons where the 22/23 season saw the defensive and midfield crisis. LFC has a net spent of 50m GBP in the 22/23 season btw to finish 5th.

The situations were completely different from now

Thankfully we have custodians like yourself to be ready with their drums, to bang them for the potential of not finishing in top 5, even before it happens.

All the facts you stated justify it. Especially the very enlightening one in the end, putting things straight, that the situation is completely different. Very important, because everyone thought the situation was exactly the same, especially me.

[LucasLeiva]

Tandy

Time for a laugh

[TheSweetSilverSong]

@SBYM

Rideo…which one of you is Jason?

I think a thread with bets is due.

[TheSweetSilverSong]

@SBYM

I’m thinking Jason is a glass-half-empty kind of bloke.

[TheSweetSilverSong]

@Flobs

There’s 11 players for each team on the pitch.

More often than not…