Jesus wept there is nonsense and there is nonsense. If you have sat and watched that game and thought thats good enough as long as we make the CL.
What was so great in the last 20 ?
The points were the best thing about today. The performance level was not good, at all. The passing was atrocious, we were not much of a threat up top, and we couldn’t retain the ball up there. The wing play was powder puff (Rio’s late cross that led to the goal notwithstanding), they walzed through our midfield whenever they liked, etc. Van Dijk was out of sorts, I thought Konate had a fairly solid game and carried on with his good form of late, and Alisson kept us in it.
So there’s a lot there in the column marked ‘against’.
My view on Slot is the same as it has been for a little while now. If we don’t qualify for the CL he is almost certainly gone. If we manage to win the CL he will almost certainly carry on as manager. A Premier League title followed up by a CL win in a difficult second season? I don’t see how you can sack a man for that.
If we scrape into the CL for next season and don’t win anything, there will surely be a review, and Slot may or may not survive the review. A lot will depend on Alonso coming into focus at that point, I would have thought.
I don’t ever want to compare our situations with the toilet up the M62 but United gave ETH way too much time at their club when his team pulled results out their arse or got themselves to a final or won a trophy. Throughout their entirety under him, they were awful.
Granted, Arne won the league in his first try but the foundation was far more stable. This foundation has crumbled.
I feel like the suits above will follow suit with Slot which is a worry and he’ll keep getting backed with transfers that when they eventually see sense it isn’t working we’ll find ourselves in that loop of a new manager needing their players.
He’s obviously not going to be sacked if he wins the CL. He becomes a club legend in that case. It’s a very big ‘if’ though!
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Not my decision thankfully.
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I donkey voted.
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More for me and you!
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If he flukes himself to winning the CL I would say he probably knows football and we are clueless. In which case mattyhurst would have a right to be smug.
The poll is too simplistic and thank fuck Liverpool don’t make decisions like this in this way.
Simply put Liverpool failing or succeeding in finishing in the CL spots isn’t the issue. By the end of the season what is past is past.
Slot should be sacked if a thorough review concludes…
- he is not the right man to take this squad forward and Liverpools best interests are serving by making a change
Or
- regardless of how the club feel about Slot going forward, a better candidate is out there that there is a benefit to Liverpool bringing in.
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Spot on!
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most polls are too simplistic… even voting in an election is too simplistic, you should be able to vote with a clause of expectation and weighted into what you want to happen the most…
but as we know that cant happen.
i think we know the poll is too simplistic, id rather see a slightly different one which goes down the path of where we are as a playing group, and how our performances are …
but as a poll is quite a simplistic function, i dont think the one offered is that far out of bounds… you can always vote then pass comment…but lets just assume a club as big as us, with our playing staff, can attract a suitable replacement…
He should be sacked simply by virtue of us having had the worst run of results in living memory and playing a style of football that is unacceptable. Barely being able to address our deficiencies or inspire the team to anything beyond an odd game here or there says to me there’s no buy in from the players , and that abomination yesterday confirms it. We’ll drift on 'til the end of the season but he needs to be replaced.
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I voted no, but with a heavy heart. I really wanted Slot to pull it around, but we are still playing like a pub team on the morning after a big night out.
Getting players of this calibre to pass to each other should be the bare minimum. There’s no sign of long term improvement despite the occasional decent performance. The players look lost and frustrated and the fans are confused and disappointed. I want the joy back.
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Problem I have is evidently they can but don’t seem to bother for a half. Why are half’s so chalk and cheese?
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To be fair, that abomination of a half had less to do with what Slot did or didn’t do and more to do with the players. It wasn’t Slot’s fault for the horrific first touches, the abhorrent passing, or for losing almost every duel.
The players are far from blameless for this train wreck of a season and they should hung their heads in shame for playing like they were still on a beach. It’s not the first time that it has happened either and I don’t care how peeved or disenchanted they are with Slot. Slot doesn’t pay their exorbitant wages, the fans do and the very least they can do is to show up ready to perform.
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I’ve actually wondered that myself. I’m pretty sure that the players are told to conserve energy in matches, but rather than passing around when the are 3 goals up, are they doing this in-match? Knowing Forest played midweek, was the plan to let themselves wear themselves out in the first half?
The problem is, it’s a big difference between managing a game and running around like headless chickens. There was a comment on TIA which pointed out that although they had 12 shots against us in the first half, most of them were outside the area, hence we were blocking the box and forcing them to take long range potshots.
It’s not exactly Heavy Metal football. More like Lift Musak - if fills a space and isn’t intended to be enjoyed.
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I have voted no.I really like Arne Slot and I am so grateful that he got us the league title last season. However, i think Arne has run out of ideas on how to turn things around when there are changes needed in a middle of the match. He also needs to sub his players earlier.
We have top class players but they seemed to play as if the lads are playing in the local park. The players also need to play with more intensity and stop being so laid back, especially after a week off.
Also, i think Arne relies too much on the same players and doesn’t rotate them enough. He doesn’t give the academy youngsters a chance to play some minutes in an EPL or tournament match. How are they supposed to learn and experience to play in these big games?
We can’t play like this next season otherwise we will be back as mediocre mentality team of the noughties.
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It’s a possibility, thinking about the Newcastle match the 60 that followed there goal was very good but we were woeful up to that.
I did note poor half’s in the Klopp era but it did seem to pick your half so it was probably just a general situation that happened. Perhaps that was deliberate.
You can tell the chances weren’t great when a small highlights package shows one chance in the first half.
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