I say this as someone who uses expletives as a matter of course myself. Alot of the febrility is coming from you… Mate don’t get me wrong but when some old timers are all saying similar things,..
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Can we take this (in my opinion needless) discussion about Mascot elsewhere please, and get back to Arne Slot? Thank you.
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Yes, let’s take this fucking relentless personal hounding of me for having an opinion somewhere else.
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Sacking Slot is not the answer, can’t even believe I have to type that.
I also can’t believe how many people, not only on here but in the media dismiss how much of an impact Jota has had on us this season. People say stuff like, ‘yeah but grief only effects you for a few weeks/months, then your bang at it again, I was’ etc
No that’s not how it works.
Pre Season is crucial, especially at the levels of PL football. Every other team in the league was bang at it, getting their teams in peak condition and full tactical awareness. Jota died the week before we start, our lads are grieving and going to a funeral for one of their best mates.
When Slot is trying to put across any ideas on tactics in those first weeks, how many of them were actually listening.
When we rely on players like Mo, Virg and Robbo to push the standards in training, the lads closest to Jota, how many of them were actually pushing 100% with everything.
Robbo was one of his closest mates, and he is crucial for that feel good atmosphere we see in the camp. how has he been around training, I have noticed the amount of behind the scenes footage has dropped off.
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. That maybe down to the fact Slot thinks they are better. It also might be because they are in a better head space.
I think back to Minamino, who joined during covid and one of the reasons pointed out by club officials as to why he didn’t make it as in that first year he didn’t fully intergrate with the lads as there was no proper atmosphere. If the atmosphere was Sombre during pre season, how has that effected the new players?
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.
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Please start a rumour thread about it.
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Completely agree with you, mate, and it’s good to see you posting in here again. 
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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.
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No major trophy isn’t important at a club like this.
There are priorities, but every competition and every game is important.
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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.
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.
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I seem to recall that he played a game after signing and then it was managed minutes until he was up to full fitness?
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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.
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
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Outstanding post, I too am interested to hear from fans who can go every week to watch the games.
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
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I’m thinking Jason is a glass-half-empty kind of bloke.
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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..
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.
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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.
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