Watched this yesterday, thought Hargreaves was useless and thought the suppose tactical overview was lacking detail due to Hargreaves phrasing of not diggi g deeper.
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Crisis over?
Maybe we should ask PL and UEFA if we can play all our games at Anfield.
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I don’t have an opinion on whether he can do it but I am calling it out to hopefully draw a line under this blind spot you have about this being Slot’s opinion
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The power of Anfield saved Arnes job for now.
Remember we are in a rebuilding process with some young players and we can also use the mourning process as an excuse if needed.
Fully expect us to drop points against Forest after the break even though it’s at Anfield. Why? Because Arne is still without a win against them and I don’t think he is able to improve/learn.
Stop with bollocks about rebuilding please.
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Sarcasm 
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We all have our own thoughts on Arne…wether they’re right or wether they are wrong…eveyone is entitled to there opinion…best way is to back him…but he might have his own thoughts on this.
He also faced a Nuno Forest.
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Looking very amatureish this season.
In his first season he wins title with Mr Klopp’s players which was a bit of a shock. But the bigger shock is how crap he is this season in almost every game.
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8 winnable games in the PL between now and New Year.
Even in the situation we’ve allowed ourselves to be drawn into, where we are being shafted by the same small group of fucking cheats every week, I’d expect a minimum of 19 points.
Anything less and he’s toast.
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And why exactly?
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Maybe we are in a rebuilding process but if you sign 5 expensive players then maybe more than one (Hugo) of them should ‘look alright’ after 18 games.
If you sign two +£100m players you should be able to make at least one of them perform after 18 games.
Has Slot improved any players besides Gravenberch? Will he be able to improve Bradley? What happened to Gakpo or World Cup winner MacAllister?
I want to hear some positives. What makes people believe he is the right man to ‘rebuild’ this team? Is he a tactical genius or a motivation magician?
Another thing.
Zero draws (not even in preseason) since the end of last season. It’s either win or lose. Worrying sign of immaturity.
A draw today and two more from the other 4 we lost and we’d be sitting 2nd in the league.
Yeah, I noticed that after Madrid the other night. I think it’s something like 35 games in Europe since we drew, which is nuts. Goes back to when Klopp was here of course.
We’ll have a better understanding of who Slot really is by the season’s end. He’s never went through a crisis before, he’s learning as he goes.
If we start looking like a real contender again, he’ll be as secure as ever. If the season ends with a whimper, it will only be a matter of time. Either way, the clock is ticking.
We haven’t got a single point after falling behind. 5 losses in 5 occurrences. Not a good sign.
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We get 2 clean sheets in our last 2 games then turn up at City wth no defensive plan to deal with Doku, who has no end product if you show him the line.
It seemed today that Conor got isolated too many times against Doku and the time he did really well, Ibou stepped in and gifted the ball back to Doku for the penalty.
My major concern is what we are trying to do on the ball when we are playing out from the back. City plan was obvious and the same from other teams, let Konate have the ball.
Then it is a matter of time before they force us down the line, trap us and win the ball back easily or pick up the long hopeful ball.
Ibou has to be brave and play a vertical pass to a midfielder or forwards feet. But that is also down to Arne, if Ibou can’t do it, play someone who can if that means moving players around then so be it.
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why are we rebuilding? That’s the bit that keeps getting waved away. It certainly was not to retool an aging team as you cannot reconcile that explanation with the specific moves we made - who was actually allowed to leave vs who we committed money to keeping.
I think there has been far too much acceptance of the necessity, the unavoidability, of changes so extensive they were always going to be difficult to manage. There was a certain amount of turnover that had to happen after last season’s limited changes and some forced on us that we might not have chosen to make, but that is part of the context for the other decisions about how much else to do outside of those required moves.
The reality is we changed because as good as we were last season Slot felt we needed changes to hit the heights he wanted to see it’s his vision for how we’d play - to out PSG PSG. To accomplish that we have significantly changed the personnel and tweaked our shape. I’m not going to judge it after half a season, but this is very much a choice and it could have been managed with more continuity
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For me, in his conversation with Szobo, at one point I thought the topic was Hargreaves himself. Horrible watch.
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No, I had doubts when journalists wrote immediately after the news that we still want Isak after Ekitike (and then getting Isak) like, it’s all good because Ekitike can play on the left. Then I had to do a little research how many times he played there.
I still have doubts how this works out with both of them.
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