Well…
Just did the school run and there is no doubt where the ‘call into TalkSport and rant’ demographic stands on the issue…
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Thank God we have “experts” to guide our thoughts. We really are living in wonderful times
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A Golden Age!!!
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Perhaps you could quote it for us, and we’ll see if it’s significant enough to balance out the rest of the article.
I agree. Especially as the apparent pressure that Mo plays every game may partly explain why Arne has been so slow to drop him this season. Leaving him out of the team has now been made much easier and if Arne can sort out the other deficiencies then Mo will have done him a favour; if he can’t then he’s gone anyway.
Don’t think that’s true. There’s been more nuance in the discussion here. I thought TAW episode was excellent also. Joyce’s article is unnecessarily nasty
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Ibrahima Konaté starts every game despite the litany of errors which continued at Leeds and allowed them back into a contest when the door should have been kept shut. Yet it is a consequence of injury — and bad squad planning — that there is no replacement for Konaté.
Joyce is under no obligation to balance out an opinion piece on a catastrophically unprofessional act of sabotage by Salah with criticisms at the club or Slot.
It’s poor form on your part to suggest that because Joyce’s piece doesn’t align with your views then it’s a shill piece written by Hughes.
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We’ve been here before, most recently with Rodgers. From past experience, this is going one way. I’m weirdly apathetic to be honest but I’m swaying towards swinging the axe now to put everyone out of our divided misery now instead of the inevitable later on down the line when we’re worse off and even more divided.
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4 words, buried amongst a load of excuses and vitriol. You have to be kidding, surely?
Here’s a genuine question for you - you’ve been vocal about grief surrounding Jota and how you think it’s affecting team performances. Do you not we should take pause for thought before aiming all these swipes at Mo Salah’s character?
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Mo has been exemplarary as a role model for our club, until it comes to the press when he wants something.
He has indeed! I also agree with some of the comments from various places saying that VVD has done all the media stuff through all this shit and Mo has been silent - until now! Club legend and we’ll always love him but I’m personally not impressed with his silence! All he has had to say through these rough times is that he’s been thrown under the bus, that’s it! Why is the boss not telling one or 2 of the senior players to go and face the media too? It shouldn’t have all been on Virgil.
Arne Slot should have been sacked by now in my opinion, but as he’s somehow still here, he has a difficult job on his hands with Mo now. In an ideal world we start winning games somehow, then Mo comes back from AFCON and bangs in a hatrick first game back and goes on a crazy run of form and we all laugh about this at the end of the season when we have CL football and another trophy in the cabinet…Meanwhile back on planet earth.
I think it’s given Slot an unexpected reprieve. He’s got six weeks now with no star player distraction to get this team playing well and winning again. It still remains to be seen however if the players are all in with the manager. More of the same would suggest no and that would spell the end for him.
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Salah has made 420 appearances for Liverpool. Apparently, he’s only spoken to the media on three occasions, in the free zone immediately after a game. One of those was the “I’m more out than in”
interview last season and now his latest premeditated outburst on Saturday.
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Really?? Can you verify the source for that information? I’m certain I’ve seen him talking after matches more than 3 times! (It doesn’t take away from the fact that he hasn’t exactly shown character and leadership through all this either way)
I think it was Paul Gorst in the Liverpool Echo.
Arne Slot decided to do that by shifting Dominik Szoboszlai into Salah’s place wide on the right, given the Hungarian’s greater work off the ball. There is a belief internally that with one win and two draws from the past three games that the change has been effective, with Liverpool conceding few opportunities. [
This is were we are now folks, draws with leeds and sunderland are considered progress
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Well it’s better than loosing which we have been doing a lot of lately…how far we’ve fallen in such a short time. It’s almost unreal!
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Who was it who said, “Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.”
The Leeds game did feel a step back because we went to bits from a winning position.
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The extra midfielder with a winger dropped is something I support and wanted to see.
It could’ve been also Gakpo sometimes (can’t believe I’m saying this after a few games’ sample), not always Salah though.
Easily done.
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Perhaps he means as in staying in the mix-zone.
Appearing in short post-match interviews is something else, less liberty for a rant. Even if he went on such, maybe they would let him. But he’s not always alone in those, either.
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