my thoughts too… i would telepod him to anfield, the second they say he is fired
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conceding fewer opportunities? We’ve conceded 4 in 2 games and it could’ve maybe should’ve been 6 or 7 in 2 games
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Honestly, I have no idea who is releasing these statements to the press. It just makes us look like a mid-table team who are happy to play to a draw with teams like Leeds and sunderland.
It’s at least a possible explanation that he is having a total meltdown and grief is contributing to this. None of us really know.
You’re stating it was premeditated as if that is fact rather than your opinion. It’s doesn’t actually make much sense because there’s really nothing good that can come out of this for Mo
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We have fallen into the trap that I warned so often was likely to scupper Arsenal - when you are already very good it is difficult to make changes that improve you and the risk of the net effect being negative is very real. That is what I predicted would happen if they added a pure goal scorer who doesnt add much else (and isnt even that good a goal scorer) and risk giving up the control of games they get from having essentially an extra midfielder playing up top.
For us, Slot was very clear in what he wanted to see more of from us last year. He felt we force the ball too often and the result was we lacked the level of control he expected to see for games we’d done enough to get on top of, but then had to work hard to kill off. Then came the PSG tie and it reinforced everything he’d been saying all season.
Darwin out, Cody favoured over the more erratic Diaz, Wirtz in with Dom getting a new role, and a new shape to center Wirtz in this final third control he was looking for. But it failed to click and then actually started getting worse the more we did to get it to click. Now…fuck knows where we are
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Of course!! He has shown himself to be an outstanding young manager. We also have to ask the question, would he come?
Not just him, but any top target. If (hypothetically) the new ‘target manager’ looks at the squad and thinks - ‘I can’t see any way of getting Wirtz and Isak into a well oiled machine of a team’ then where does that leave us? The club has invested massively and we’re in a position where these new guys have to work out. It’s not impossible to think (again, hypothetically and for the sake of argument) that we could move Isak on in the summer if the new man just couldn’t see a way to make it all click, but for someone like Alonso who is still up and coming in manager years - it would be a risk.
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How far back he was planning this we dont know, but it was definitely a planned statement. As has been said already, Mo made a point as asking the reporters to wait for him while he went in to shower and change and then went back to talk to the press as promised.
Sounds like certain posters on here have been calling in.
If he wanted to get something off his chest before AFCON, the timing after the Leeds game was probably the only ‘headline grabbing’ opportunity he would get, in order to allow enough time for it to resonate before he leaves…
As for the result of the game, it could well be his speech was tailored, be it a win, loss or draw.
One thing he has done for the fanbase… and it might prove to be a case of him falling on his own sword… he has lit the ‘blue touch paper’ for some real ‘in-house’ searching questions to be asked by FSG
We only have Gomez who is made of glass. Also, Virgil (as shit as he has been) is among the least of our problems at the moment. If we had adequate cover then it would likely be Ibou who would be benched - and quite rightly so.
There form has been as bad as ours in the league since we met. They were 4pts ahead and now are behind by 4 and the teams they have played are shit.
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The last three league matches tells us while dropping Salah didn’t make us lose, we only won 1 out of the three with that one win needing a sharp Isak to get us rolling…
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Quick question, @dildoswaggins, when you thought of what username you wanted to use on this forum. Can you unpack the thought process going into it. I am most intrigued.
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I had recently read the Hobbit for the first time in my life, so that name just came to me when I was signing up. Shows how grown up I am at heart don’t you think? Reading the Hobbit at 41 and using the word dildo in a username.
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I love Klopp and his legend is secure. But I’m slightly uncomfortable with the way we (not you, the wider fan base) keep going back to him. As the memory fades a little, he becomes almost perfect, and the current manager Slot pales in comparison. But I don’t think that is accurate.
So, with nothing but love and respect in my heart for Klopp, I want to factually - some may say coldly, state where Klopp’s Liverpool side finished in the Prem, since he won it five years ago.
To get to that title win Klopp had a few years where he built it up, won some battles, grew in his authority, and so on and so forth. Then after winning that title, where did we finish in subsequent seasons?
On the back of that Prem victory in 2019-20 Klopp led us to third, second, fifth, then third.
Then Slot came in and led us to first place in his first season. Brilliant stuff.
Now in his second season we are struggling and there are legitimate issues with Slot. Salah’s unprofessional meltdown is an unwelcome, and significant extra thing he now needs to navigate, in addition to all the other issues piling up this season.
The jury is out on whether or not Slot will be here for the long haul, but if, in a season of transition and now turmoil, as he builds a new side… if he ends up leading us to a CL spot via the league, with clear progression in the second half of the season, I will be more than fine with that.
It is quite possible that Klopp is overestimated in our affections, and Slot underestimated.
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Highly unlikely, slot isn’t competing against the level of competition Jurgen did while here, and I’m not sure we spent as much money in one window as we did for Arne this summer.
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I’m still not cheering on City!
Even if i would like see Alonso here
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It’s got some interesting things to say, but it’s a very odd perspective to air that our defensive improvements didnt come because we dropped Mo, but because in dropping him we put someone else in his role who will do a far better job defending.
This is very much a “guns dont kill people, people do” sort of argument.
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In his last four seasons Klopp finished third, second, fifth and third again. It’s still quite possible that Slot can finish in that sort of range, and see us to CL qualification via the league, even in a season of transition and turmoil.
Yet plenty are sticking the boot in on Slot, and not giving much benefit of the doubt even after winning the title in his one season so far before this one.
In comparison to how they are spoken about by fans, Jurgen, with one league title in his eight years, is seen as almost perfect. Just seems a bit off to me. (Just commenting on the league here, but obviously Klopp won the CL too, which was brilliant).
Don’t get me wrong, the jury is very much out on Slot after this slump, but I do think we are a bit too romantic, on the whole, in going back to Jurgen in our affections.
We’re in a mess. Jurgen will fix it.
I just think that sort of thing is unrealistic.
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