I always find it odd that someone would suggest sacking off the CL because they need to qualify for the CL.
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I couldnt say, but is that how we measure things now?
Given the nature of the problems were having its likely to be a friendlier competition to us as well
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If we do indeed right the wrongs it could be quite a profitable thing for us come Feb/March if not going far in that would at least cover the cost of failure in the league.
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Cue us drawing PSG in the first KO round…
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We can’t afford to sack any game off frankly. We need confidence and some time to play but it starts playing every piece in its position.
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Surely not! Touchwood!
Sorry i mean irrelevant in terms of if win then lose to west ham the psv win shouldnt save him.
im not saying every manager has to be perfect and cant lose games of football but its the manor of these defeats which is the concern. The putting square pegs in round holes when theres players in on the bench who can fill in.
Slots too stubborn - Gomez shouldve started yesterday- if he isnt fit then why is he on the bench? his confidence must be shot after seeing midfielders considered ahead of him. If SLot dont rate Gomez then he shouldve got rid in the summer. Sozbo is a great RB but hes been our best midfielder so putting him RB means our midfield comes up short.
Theres no place in setiment in football. Its no good winning league last year then finishing 8th after spending £400m (if lucky) this year.
As I said the form since PSG has been fucking dreadful and shows no sign of changing
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He said post-match that Gomez hasn’t trained this week.
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Which is why your post feels a bit like arguing for arguments sake.
You understand full well what posters saying that Slot won it with Klopp’s squad actual mean, and therefore you know full well what I’m arguing against.
Oh and by the way, bringing Quansah into it feels a bit off. Of all the people to blame for the Guehi deal collapsing, Slot would be fairly low on the list.
So why on the bench then if you cant use him.
Dont get me wrong Gomez is a waste of time and shouldve been sold ages ago but wasnt. Suprise suprise he isnt fit again…so why put him on bench? Why not go with Ramsey?
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Why is it no good winning the league?
I’ve not seen us win the league very often. I really enjoyed it. Does us hitting a bad run of form diminish that? Not really.
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Because you can be fit to be on the bench, but not fit to start, etc. It’s not black and white. If there was an emergency situation and defending the lead, perhaps he could’ve come on. He said he didn’t want to throw on a defender when we were chasing the game.
Becaues he obviously rates (at least last night) some other players out of position higher than Ramsay.
I’m not saying Slot doesn’t make mistakes over selection, but does it ever cross our minds that some of these players who we want to see more of are perhaps not as good as some of the fans think they are? Or that the coaching staff, people who are paid for it and see them in training sessions, don’t rate them as much as some of us?
Right now it’s a mess on the pitch, but it would be also a mess if some of us would lead the thing and start changing absolutely everything and giving everyone the same chance. It’s not possible.
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true but if we finish 8th this season…thats pretty shit
I don’t think Slot should share any of the blame, for the collapse of the Guehi deal. That’s down to Hughes and Edwards leaving it late, to save a few quid and not giving Palace enough time to sign a replacement. The move should’ve been completed weeks before the transfer window closed.
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I remember him saying he missed training Thursday but hoped to train on Friday.
That is not a given as we did lose to PSV the last time we met them in the UCL!
In terms of strength, they are close to lower mid-table PL side…
Oh and one more thing to the ‘it was Klopp’s team’ bullshit.
Klopp announced that he was going in January 2024, having told the club in November 2023 of his decision.
He later said that he knew that he couldn’t go on in the summer of 2023 when his staff and the club were discussing logistics and plans for the 24/25 season.
So he literally put together the team that Slot inherited knowing he was going to step down. He rebuilt that midfield knowing that he was doing so to hand it over to someone else.
It’s a measure of the class Klopp has to make sure his successor had a great chance to compete. And it’s a measure of Slot’s class to acknowledge that inheritance and the debt to Klopp, even while celebrating winning the title.
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Similar to us then.
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Yes, that was pre-match.
And then post-match last night, he said he didn’t train. So I guess he didn’t manage to train on Friday and they judged it’s better not to start him (if you start him you hope a player gives you at least an hour or so).
He will get minutes and starts for sure, because we have many games coming up and not many fit defenders.