I am really disappointed in Joyce; he has let himself down here, like massively
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He has let himself down with that article.
has reddy said anything yet?
He’s taken it straight from the mouths of Hughes and Edwards.
It’s a nice deflection for them given how this season is going.
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It has the opposite effect. I was not on Salah’s side on this, but this hit piece gives me pause. it was so unnecessary and cheap
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The paragraphs above are not all to be found in the original article (point might still remain).
Probably Twitter fans editing, adding stuff, etc. Spreads like a disease once people start copy/pasting without double-checking anything.
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We all know he was not going to play much this year had he stayed. Quansah himself has said this was his expectation and we can all assume this is the only reason the club would have sanctioned a sale, even one with the clauses they got in the Leverkusen deal. The point raised that you started responding to and that I have tried to refocu you on several times is that Slot’s judgement was questioned over this - that it did not reflect well that he wanted a squad with more players he felt comfortable using and could not find a way to include a player like Quansah in that group such that the only option was to move him on to get the games he was demanding. Everything else you keep raising is a separate conversation.
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#SLOTIN
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I thought of Lallana and Milly…strict discipline and meticulous worka holics…out of line= kick up the arse…grasping at straws really…as I previously…who the hell is going to take on this shower of shite…
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This interview by Mo is why it is so difficult for a manager to make the sensible choice.
If Slot had benched Mo earlier, than what? This blow up would only be earlier. And Konate and MacAllister… do we really have the depth to do that? We don’t have a squad with options.
This is one of the biggest mistakes in the summer. We sold our squad and bought two very expensive strikers who haven’t shown they can play together. And for that we have given up our option to play people who are in form or hold them accountable.
Mo has to go. Slot, I don’t know how much is his fault, the lack of options, the mourning… but at the end of the day it might not be about whose fault it is but rather whether he can still turn it around. A pragmatic decision has to be made but I’m still thinking to give him the season.
The thing is Salah had been shit for a long time, even at the back end of last season.
Yet Slot played him more or less every minute this season even when he was stinking the place out and every man and his dog could see he needed dropping.
To suddenly drop him 3 games running tells me one of two things. Either the suits had a word in Slot’s ear or Slot realised his job was on the line so decided to use Salah as a scapegoat as to why we’ve been so shit.
Ideally we can get a good fee for Salah in January and get him off the wage-bill. Slot should have gone already.
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I don’t know what to think of Hughes, but Edwards is a prick. Always running to the media with his snaky little hit pieces. I don’t like him at all.
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FFS, we must be the best team because we beat Villa and Villa are the best form team and they beat Arsenal 
No team is a given victory no matter what level in the league they are, any team can have a day where everything goes right and the other team can have major off days.
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Anyone have that joyce article free ? Sure i saw it posted earlier
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Joyce article free version
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Proper hit piece
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When you read the whole article, I don’t see any issue wth the whole piece.
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I don’t, I’m surprised with some of the reaction. Could easily be a narky fan piece pissed off with Salah but there is very little that griped at me in that.
It’s no worse than one of the talking heads of Anfield Wrap demanding Salah has to play
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Leoni is a few years younger than Quansah. In his time at Liverpool Quansah did everything - trained loads, played, developed, and now the finishing touch is for him to play first team games at a high level. This last step will reveal if he is merely good, or is on the way to greatness. If the latter, we obviously would like him back, and we have tried to make arrangements for that eventuality, should it happen. What I do know is Quansah would have stagnated on our bench at this stage, and not fulfilled his potential. Since he was willing to sell him, clearly Slot thought he would be doing plenty of bench time.
Leoni is what, 4 years younger? He played a little in Italy, is a big unit for his age - for any age for that matter, and he showed he had something that was enough for us to buy him. We buy at various levels of the market, and in this instance we were not buying the finished article, but rather a potential diamond to polish. He wasn’t a young, young kid so we had no clue as to his likely level. We thought/hoped he would excel, but he was just at the start of his journey.
Leoni’s pressing need was to train at the most elite level, and learn, day in day out from the likes of Van Dijk. For a young defender, who could potentially go on to be elite, to learn from the best in the world before he hangs up his boots at Liverpool was a great opportunity. Leoni was always going to see some first team action, but he was more of a League Cup sort of proposition at this stage, whereas Quansah has grown beyond that. Leoni, even in spite of an unfortunate injury, still has time on his side.
I see no incongruity whatsoever in selling one and buying the other.
Still, it’s fair to say we needed more in central defence and the ‘mistake’ was in not not signing Guehi, an accomplished central defender at the start of his prime, fast, strong, and crucially, good on the ball to help us pass it out from the back better. Based on what we’ve seen in central defence this season, Guehi would have played and he would have improved it.
We know we are short in defence. The idea this season was to have both Guehi and Leoni, while also keeping a future option on Quansah. It all seemed solid enough, but Guehi fell through and Leoni got injured, so I’m sure we will go back into the market to bolster the position.
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Yeah, he has a go at Mo, with regards to stamping his feet and when and how he uses the media which is all about him, which I agree with.
He then moves away and talks about others underperforming and finishes with what Mo has done for us.
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