i mentioned months ago that this is the crux for me.
if we do get CL qualification, but do it off the back of just having a better stock of cattle, then to me, thats not a great omen moving forward, if we missed out on CL qualification, but could clearly see the moving parts coming together, then hed have a better chance of seeing his vision realised here…
in a microism, its why refusing to give Rio 10 minutes in important games, as opposed to letting poor Gakpo continued to trudge his way back into form , (to me) this is a bigger problem than losing to Man City in the context of where we are this season
We have fewer points now that Moyes’ united had at the same stage of the season.
The worst part is the majority of good football we’ve played this season, certainly this year, has come when we’ve upped the pace. When we’ve looked more like the team we were last year. This, and how confused and unconfident we often look otherwise tells me we are not a team building towards something, but one fighting with itself over what its being told to be vs what it wants to be.
Come on. It’s the kind of thing Sky would put up to generate clicks.
13-14 was twelve years ago and the league is totally different. You had strength at the top of the table, but there were a lot of teams in the league that were fodder. Getting a bottom half team at home was a routine three points, even for Moyes, in a way that it just isn’t now.
The rest of your post, about the team being caught between styles and feeling like a sports car with the handbrake on I agree with.
We’re you really? That’s you and Slot then. The ‘Gang of 2’.
I left the ground as the ‘referee’ made the VAR gesture. I think it was the first time I’ve left before a match finished since Villa beat us 2-1 with 2 Andy Gray goals in 1977.
I genuinely couldn’t understand what I was watching so I left. I didn’t see anyone laughing as I left the ground and walked to the Supporters Club. Nobody was laughing in there either. What was noticeable was when Klopp was being interviewed after a match (win, lose or draw) everyone was told to shut up so people could hear what he was saying. With Slot nobody gives a single fuck anymore.
If this clown is still in charge on Wednesday then only FSG will know why. It will either be a financial decision or the fact they don’t want to appoint an interim manager.
There are no footballing reasons left. He’s done on that score.
I desperately want Slot to steer this team back to prosperity, but I am so angry at him turning Liverpool fortress into a joke, our players’ confidence dropped to the abyss, including the youngster like many have said. His favouritism is disgusting in my eyes. I don’t believe I am saying this but I just want him to move on and away from our team.
If I am honest, I don’t think we have played 90 minutes of good football all season.
That’s why I have no confidence in him turning it around. That and the fixtures towards the end of the season on paper are more difficult than earlier in the season.
Ive moved on from Slot, hes really a passenger in a wider plot Im after Hughes now, it was all on his watch. To think, you could swap an entire half starting eleven out of a title team, as well spend £450m on it, and somehow make it?! Proper FM dreamweaver stuff.
Thing is… if for example FSG have set the agenda for slot to win the PL and CL, within his 3yr tenure, then Slot is still on target…!
I do believe he will be raked over the coals; to a degree; by the owners at the end of the season if we win nothing by playing crap.
However, I can see him being given a pre-season to get the players fit and get his house in order, a reset sort of scenario, but if the first half of the next season continues to turn out turgid football and tactics, dropping points every other game, I can see him being put on gardening leave and we move for another coach…
Not sure what impact he is having on the players in the dressing room daily, but as a fan, I am really struggling to take an interest in anything Slot has to say at the moment…
