Rebooting a functional system (buying 3 big money central attackers while ignoring the wings completely) after winning the league title is certainly a choice.
People need to move on…The LFC leadership is not going to sack Slot, based on all of the data that they have..
The Slot out and the pining for Alonso has become tiresome
This is what I said 3 week ago.
United have gone on to get 9 points from 3 games, we have gotten 3 points. We now sit 6th, equal on points to Brentford in 7th.
At this point I will be surprised if he lasts the season. I can see them putting in Gerard as interim if Alonso is not ready yet.
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4 points behind a CL spot and going to Sunderland (unbeaten at home) on Wednesday.
Let’s see how much the hierarchy will be ‘fully behind Slot’ on Thursday morning.
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mentioned this months ago… be worth it just to see @Mascot bust a valve!!! (just joking mate…but would be funny)
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He had a week to prepare for this game and in the first half, we looked like a team of strangers that didn’t know what to do and when.
Refused to trust his bench when he had players that literally couldn’t run. Every time you think that something has clicked, the next game is a disaster and we’re back to square one.
Going from 1st to 6th with so much quality at his disposal is unthinkable. He deserves to be fired.
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I pray that you are right. I really do.
Liverpool must do to Slot the same way Bayern did to Van Gaal back in 2011 to save themselves (Van Gaal also won Bundesliga in the previous season).
As far as interim appointments go, Man United have struck gold with Carrick (and Holland) and Chelsea with Rosenior but we only have ourselves to blame, not them. I don’t think that we can pull off such a move at this point, especially as FSG got their fingers burnt once in a similar situation. We won’t be playing CL football next season, that much is clear now, but I will hope for a quality, permanent signing to take over from Slot as the season is basically a write-off.
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Well, we could at least try the interim coach thing (whoever it is is almost irrelevant to me at this point, just someone to bring some fresh air to the whole thing), instead of burying our heads in the sand if our desired coach isn’t ready.
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Got to hope Xabi would want to come without CL, hopefully Guardiola stays one more year or I can see him going there.
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We don’t need an interim.
Alonso took over Leverkusen during relegation battle and even took them to the Europa League Semi Final.
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Could you explain how that is clear, with three months of the season still to play?
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Do you get the feeling that the friendly roundtable video with Hughes and Slot is the latter day version of the vote of confidence.
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I think if gears are turning about the managers position, then it doesn’t get released.
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Whoever gets the job is still walking into a squad that is, at worst, the 3rd strongest in the country and with very high quality young players. They’re playing below their standard this season but if that wasn’t true then the job wouldn’t be available this summer.
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if thats the case then theres some real issues going on behnd the scenes…
stick with him is an option, might even be a good one, but if there are no ‘gears turning’ and doubts about the managers position, given where we are, and what we are seeing this season, then the club has lost its direction…
even Klopp would have recognised and accepted that.
I refuse to give up hope on a Top5 finish even if we are 8 points behind with 10 games to go.
But we’re getting close to a point where we might have to try that new manager bounce thing.
People need to get this into their heads.We are not getting CL football this season.Slot should have been sacked ages ago but the hierarchy has no backbone.Hughes and Edwards need to leave LFC in the summer.
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It would be really interesting to know just where Alonso would have been on the shortlist had he not ruled himself out early on. We know Slot was the number one based on the data and analysis. But had Alonso been available then would they have still gone for Slot?
Despite the feverish pile on, if Slot was their man even with Alonso in the mix, then I think he’ll stay put, even beyond the summer.
Where it gets interesting, and a really difficult decision, is if Alonso would have been the number one candidate had he not committed to Madrid. Then it might be a case of handshakes all round and move on.
A third option is that Slot himself calls it a day. I would think he’d be looking for a new contract in the summer, as he’ll only have a year left, and as that probably isn’t going to be forthcoming, he might decide to call it a day himself.