Unless you work at Kirkby, you have absolutely no basis for that opinion.
No he isn’t loopy. He is a human being with a family still living miles away that he never gets to see. That was Negan’s point.
Hopefully, Arne’s family will be with him during the Christmas/New Year period.
It is hard being away from family.
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I don’t think you can throw a 17 year old into these games at the minute.
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Explains why he gives Chiesa so much gametime.
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My point was it would be loopy for Arne to be thinking about signing a new contract now. Given he has 18 months left and his tenure remains very uncertain. His family have nothing to do with that and their decision to move here (or not) does not come into it.
I think it would be bold for the club to offer Arne a new contract at this point. I don’t think it would be particularly loopy on Arne’s part to sign it.
Well, yes. You seem to have a blind spot in how physical and mental conditioning help alertness. All of these seemingly inexplicable mistakes are a symptom of a lack of adequate preparation. What you don’t seem to be getting is that it’s a management oversight.
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Except for the match performances and results.
No one here is working at Kirkby but after watching and playing football for years if not decades we are allowed to form an educated opinion.
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Yeah it would be loopy to think one would be offered is what I’m saying (third time lucky?). You have to remember English is only my third language (after Blarney and Stray-alien). 
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And you know that how?
There are lots of things that can cause a dip in physical capacity. That can make a team look lethargic and behind a step. Unless you are privy to what is going on at Melwood, you cannot know that for sure.
If it’s a problem of conditioning and physical preparedness, why are you not turning your barrels on the fitness people. There is a whole bunch of people at the club with the sole responsibility for getting these players fit and ready to play football.
The issue here is that a lot of people on this forum have decided they hate Arne Slot and want him sacked. So now everything goes through that prism and everything is down to him.
I could decide I fucking hate Richard Hughes, and hey presto, all our problems are definitely down to terrible recruitment and bad strategy.
How are the girls at Melwood?
You know what I mean.
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Yeah I’ve tried the I hate the other 19 teams approach and pin our woes on them. Problem is I don’t see a satisfactory way to ‘solve’ that problem. Maybe just watch training? Must admit I haven’t enjoyed watching us very much this season and can certainly feel many others feel likewise based on the tone and mood on here
They live in Zwolle, which is about an hour’s drive from Schiphol airport, and that is about an hour’s flight from John Lennon. It’s surprisingly commutable.
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Have you only now started watching professional sport? Genuine question because you’re genuinely myopic, fuck me. There have been countless articles, books, documentaries in all codes of sport through the years that document the importance of mental and physical conditioning. Routines, regimens, scenarios, reaction times, breathing, handling stress. A legendary manager of ours brought in a surfer in pre season. Hint, it wasn’t to teach them how to surf.
If I’m not having a go at the conditioning guys it’s because it’s Slots responsibility to manage the effect those people are having and to be satisfied that it is what is desired for professional footballers at a club competing for honours. As much an issue on this forum is equally people like yourself, well if I’m honest just yourself, who have decided that any sort of critique is unacceptable regardless of the veracity of the argument.
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Learned a new word
That’s really fucking sad from you. Do you want a discussion, or do you just want to fling shit about?
Where have I said that this isn’t important? Where have I suggested conditioning doesn’t matter? How about you stop throwing strawmen about?
What I have disputed is your assertion that Liverpool are not preparing properly for games of football, on the basis - and this is the only cast iron objectively true thing in this back and forth between us - you haven’t got a fucking dickie bird what is going on at Kirkby, and you don’t have the knowledge or data to back that up as an assertion. How these players are conditioned and prepared for games of football to the detail you are touching on, is not in the public domain.
What we do know is that Liverpool are a multi billion pound professional sports club, operating at the elite of the game. The manager arrived with a reputation for fitness and conditioning, and we won the league last season looking fitter and stronger than every other team. The idea that these people, who operate at a level few of us could even contemplate, have suddenly forgotten how to prepare us for games is absolutely risible.
You are entitled to think these players are not being prepared properly for matches, but it’s clearly an opinion rather than a fact, and not a particularly credible one.
I don’t mind the critique. I don’t mind the discussion. I don’t like the way arguments like yours are framed as something we know to be self- evident. I don’t like how opinions become so entrenched conversations are no longer possible
The opening goals for us in the last 2 league games were unforced errors from the opposition and fortuitous bounce of the ball.
In the brighton match, Minteh was defending his corner, Gomez went charging in on Brighton’s LW, the ball bounced nicely on the ground twice towards the gap between their 2 CBs and then to Ekiteke.
In the spurs match, after going down by 1 man, Romero goes too short in diagonal and hits our player, allowing Isak to get the ball.
This looks eerily like the start of this season with all those special moments again…
Almost half way through the season and Arne is still no closer to finding a way to get this side playing quality, attractive football. The football isn’t bad, it’s deplorable. And it’s every fucking week. How is a game between Fulham and Burnley producing more excitement than anything we’ve conjured up this season? With a bit of luck here and there, we’re essentially winging it. No idea how we sit joint 4th, then again the football in this league (& I include the team currently sitting top) is utterly dreadful, possibly the worst it’s ever been. The soul of the game has been taken away and replaced with AI.
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