For me , Jürgen is a prophet. 
I cannot say anything against him. It would against my religion 
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No one is perfect but he comes the nearest to it.
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I was unsure on Xabi, but look at where Bayer Leverkusen were when he took over 17th.
Plus I saw an Adam Cleary piece in what he was doing at Real Madrid and apart from the aresholes he was coaching he had them tactically sound.
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In hindsight it looks bad but could you imagine winning the title and letting two of the bedrocks of that success leave on free transfers along with Trent as well?
Not only are you adding two more to the huge swathe of changes in the summer, if the season had gone like this without them here, even if they weren’t tearing up trees elsewhere, the pitchforks would have been out for everyone involved.
At least with Salah we’ve probably protected some value should he move on in the summer. And no matter how bad Virg is he’s still our best and most reliable CB. Perhaps that says something about our succession planning or lack there of.
We did good business in the summer. Most of the new players we bought are starting to come good and I expect they will give good value for years to come, after a period of integration. As it happens we are building a new team. Klopp’s parting gift was a new midfield. It probably needs one more, a defensive midfielder who can pass well might be just the ticket. Adam Wharton.
We got new fullbacks, and now we need to look at the central defence. We got new strikers and now we need to look at the wing/s.
A good summer and I fully expect us to be back at it next season, challenging for the Prem.
That probably won’t be with Slot, as it looks like his race is nearly run. I’m gutted for him, as he won the league and many circumstances have conspired against us this season. But it probably needs a new leader, and with a guy like Alonso apparently waiting for the nod, it might come sooner rather than later.
Yeah having watched today, I’m not convinced it’s the business we did last Summer either. It’s something else entirely which isn’t a good look for Slot.
From the squad I can only think of 3 players that are playing at a level we expect of them.
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We all know what direction this is heading in. It’s been inevitable for a while now and I see no point in continuing with this until the summer. The club should be doing everything in their power to get Alonso in now before it’s too late and he’s convinced to go elsewhere.
Big questions need to be asked of Hughes and Edwards as well. They have overseen this sharp downturn in fortunes and continue to sit on their hands as the squad becomes more and more depleted. Tired of our hierarchy being sound with us completely chucking away a season every couple of years.
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Hughes has to answer questions on the CB situation, however as someone else said this squad has shown and is good enough to not keep churning these turgid performances. They’ve even shown it this season.
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He looks lost. The players look lost.
The football is a complete mess.
I don’t mind sticking with a struggling manager if I can see where its heading or what the issues are. Klopp had spells where he struggled but we still looked like a well coached team and the problems were easily identified.
No one wants to see a title winning manager lose his job, but it’s time we thanked Arne for his contribution and moved on.
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Guess what? Gapko started today, and it’s not a “D” but a “L”. 
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This video was interesting. Right at the end of the video it shows where we are in this evolution of football.
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If that is the evolution of football, then I have to ask have we been building the wrong type of team, and do we necessarily have the players to play that way? And how long and how many hundreds of millions till we can transition from here to there?
Evolution of football?
Absolute tosh…
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Yeah, I’ve had enough now. I even turned over to watch Gladiators instead. Fucking terrible. It’s just so bloody easy to play through us and that’s on Slot.
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I understand that most of their work is in the background. But there’re times when it is necessary to lay out the vision or restate it…
I think it’s not good enough to leave this simply to the manager’s pressers…
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And yet if Van Dijk deals with a hopeful punt into our area like any competent CB should do we don’t concede the first 2 goals and Gomez doesn’t get crocked.
I take your point but a lot of these players need to take a good look at themselves and VVD is right up there.
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FWIW I think Richard Hughes has a lot to answer for, possibly more than Slot
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That maybe true but do you think Slot is getting the most out of the parts he has available 
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Has there been any comment on the thinking behind taking Kirkez off at half time?
In the red zone of being at risk of injury with amount of games he’s been playing, it was essentially a pre planned sub, but would’ve lasted 60 had we not needed to make the change in the first.
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