We don’t do furious reactions.
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We don’t even seem to have reactions at the moment.
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Salah has been very poor, no qualms about it. However, I don’t think he’s reached the point of terminal physical decline and in a normal team, he would probably still produce a good deal of goals and assists, provided he rediscovered some semblance of form. This is where Slot has failed though.
He hasn’t been able to provide a platform for Salah, and everyone else really, to perform.
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We do plenty of shit ones
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Thats why I said this will be the acid test in how the make up of the dressing room is.
I honestly can’t see a reaction the previous 15 games suggests its not pulling in the same direction.
The Mo scenario has taken away from another shit show yesterday every single backpage was changed.
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Isn’t that the invisible man?
Though plenty of nominations in our squad for that.
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I don’t see a team that’s split. The players look like they care but are being badly coached. A number of them are hopelessly out of form and make mistakes that cost us goals.
There is no area of the pitch where we function well. That is all on the manager and coaching staff. There has been no improvement and last night was fucking diabolical despite only Frimpong being unavailable.
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It’s well-written, but jumps too quickly to foregone conclusions. So, Slot has apparently lost the dressing room. Hmm… 
I didn’t see that during the first 70 minutes yesterday. It was a coherent, more than committed collective performance. From all players bar none. Then, Konaté commits a mistake, and the players’s confidence falls back an abyss. Is it Slot losing the dressing room? Nope, not in my book at least. There is a collective fragility coming up when there is the slightest hit-back.
Slot hasn’t the same wonderful sense for individual and collective psychology Klopp had, so the only way is back to training, back to matches, drum some positive playing patterns into the players, tirelessly train defending set pieces, again and again, and hope that at some point, we get a good solid performance over 95 minutes again. Yesterday, we got 70.
I wrote it already after the game, there are signs of a performing unit emerging. But one only needed to look at Konaté’s face after the penalty: oh no, here we go again. After the game, he looked like he was going to cry.
Renewed mental steel is needed. If coaching staff and current players can’t work themselves towards that, any new target in the player market from now on MUST have those attributes at the top of his game. Ideally, we need a model pro and hard grafter like for instance Millie at the time, who can set the required standards for the other players.
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I personally hope slot leaves Salah at home. Salah’s gone way down in my book. I was fully supportive of him getting a new contract even if it meant his performances might dip this season (I never expected him to be as good). I didn’t think he’d be this bad, but he still deserved his contract. However Salah does not deserve to be in the team and doesn’t deserve to be in the squad now.
He can fuck off to Saudi, earn his mega millions and never be the force he was or the Liverpool legend he was on course to be. He really has fucked this up and Slot has my full support.
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When Quansah went we negotiated not just a buy back but also a pre agreed contract. It was obviously a case of ‘see you soon’ rather than ‘goodbye’,
Quansah is a potential elite centre back, but at Liverpool - let’s not forget, a team who want to win leagues and European cups - he was never going to get the development games he needed with us. He was never going to get to make his mistakes.
Ironically given the way Konate has dropped off a cliff, and Gomez’ fitness issues, it’s likely he would have got loads of games. But that wasn’t the plan, and nobody could foresee it playing out like that.
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Which tbh makes no sense why we sold him. Why didn’t we loan him out? He signed a long term contract a couple of years ago. He’d have been on relatively fuck all with years left on his contract. I’m not even sure 35illion was that great a deal.
The only thing I can think of is that accounting wise, it’s better to sell him rather than loan him because of that amortisation bollocks so we get 35 million pure profit now. Still a stupid decision in my book and means if we buy him back, we spend 50 million plus whatever increase in his wages. At the end of the day, the buy back clause doesn’t mean we can sign him. If he doesn’t want to join us, he can tell us to fuck off.
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All true, but I think we were maybe looking at two years or so away from the club. I’m not sure how the economics works, but you are probably right about booking pure profit on a homegrown player.
I think the sale also makes sense if there is any doubt that the player might not make it. You don’t want to turn down £35m to spend two years loaning him out (with no real guarantee he plays) and then find he cones backs no further on, but with only a resale value of 5-10m
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You are begging the question. Your position assumes that it was right for Quansah to have got so few games and would have been right for him to continue in that way. If the manager was not going to play him then the deal we did is about as good as we could have done.
The question has always been about Slot’s judgement of the player. There were plenty of people who thought he was already good enough to step in should the Virgil-Ibou axis need to be changed, some who thought he was good enough to provide a real challenge to it, and many who thought there was a big risk in thinking the market would automatically result in us getting a better alternative.
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Well in other news Tom Hicks had died. As sad as that is for him and his family, it’s a reminder of how bad things could have been.
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You just don’t get it do you, Hodgson was a poor fit for Liverpool a lot lot worse than Slot, but no player spoke publicly about him as that is not the Liverpool way.
The way Mo has gone about it and it all being about me, not the team is so so wrong, but then youcome from and entitled age.
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Was one of the best players on the planet, that is the difference.
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As so often we in a discussion about the nature of Slot’s decision making with 10% of the information that would make it an informed one. We don’t know what discussions were had in the club about Quansah’s future. But I do know that while the club are fond of a buy back, a pre arranged contract is almost unheard of. I think that is a clear signal that Liverpool FC retain an interest in Quansah.
I recall the end of the Klopp’s final season, where Quansah had seemingly replaced Konate as first choice. We were all very excited about him, but mistakes had started to creep into his game. Slot was pretty ruthless with him, and perhaps overly so, but I suspect the clubs position with him was we think the kid might be elite, but there is no possibility of him being given the time and space to make his mistakes, and treating him as a fourth choice option is a waste of everyone’s time.
He got rich by hurting people, fuck him and his family. Hope they lose every single penny he left them.
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None of our rivals would be in for Mo, at $400k per week the risk is not worth it, he has lost a yard of pace and doesn’t go past his man anymore and his shooting is off.
Age catches up with everyone, Milly was the fitest player we have seen and he lost a yard of pace and with it the sharpness and it told.