He’s just too wedded to his way of wanting to play. Nothing wrong with that and I absolutely would not want a Sporting Director to get involved with tactics, etc but I’d like to know if Hughes has had a conversation with him and brought up why he is persisting with something that is clearly not working vs what has worked and what we know works.
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I don’t see that, but what I see is worse. After wolves Slot said he doesn’t know why we were play) g that slow and we need to move it quicker. Virgil said the same. That has been a theme. The manager wants t9 see something, he isn’t seeing it well/often enough yet it just repeats game after game after game.
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I agree with what you are saying, but I want to marry both points. Slot will be sacked if FSG do not think he is the right man to take the club forward. There will be a review, and all the data points of the whole season will be factored in.
AND if we don’t qualify for the CL, that will be a massive data point counting against Slot, to say nothing of the large hole in the finances.
The two points aren’t the same, but for me there is a lot of overlap on the venn diagram.
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i have a feeling we due a similar thumping with the way we playing especially with our slow and shit 1st halfs… one team in the next 8 games is gonna hit that perfect 1st half patch and drill us for 4-5 goals before the half is over
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The point wasn’t this is the worst football since Rodgers, the point was is this worst football since Hodgson and I’ve offered up an alternative that it isn’t. It’s Rodgers standard.
I’ve brought evidence and you’ve brought a prediction.
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why do you always have to be so damn sensible… take this walk with me
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I do think that the squad size is too small. I know Slot prefers that, but I think our late game blunders are in part because our players look knackered in the final minutes and Slot doesn’t feel comfortable rotating. I know his training approach is less insane than Jurgen’s, and you could consider the merits of that less rigorous approach. But at the same time, if fitness levels have dropped, you’ll need to rotate more often. And Slot doesn’t feel comfortable rotating with some of our key players - if there are even options available for him to do so.
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I get it that they are homegrown, but they are not that good (especially Morton).
He hasn’t exactly lit it up anywhere else and we need better quality.
Quansah maybe… but I think there are better options considering he left to be an immediate starter.
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Every match feels like “cold Tuesday night at Stoke” vibes
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The powers that be would hate him, he says just what he thinks, and if you don’t like it..tough.That was the case in Oz,I like him though..no BS.
You forgot, wet and miserable 
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I’m looking forward to the Spurs game. It’s set up to be calamity football all round.
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At least Isak cannot be injured tonight - doubly so as MVdV wont be anywhere near the pitch…
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Seeing as Spurs aren’t playing tonight?
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Would that make it triply safe?
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Another snippet from the press conference; I don’t know if he’s aware that he’s been complaining far too much about the circumstances and pointing the finger at others. Of course, this is immediately seized upon.
It’s no good.
Every time I see the title of this thread I think of a screwdriver 
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I think the success of the Artetarization of PL football has more to do with the failure of the alternatives, than simply the money in the league or the top to bottom strength of the league.
In the case of LFC, there’s a clear mismatch between the game model that Slot designed, and the composition of the squad.
From both imbalance in the squad as a result of mistakes in the summer transfer and the bets made that did not pan out, and of course injuries.
As you rightly noted, we came late to the party. But we’re still between and betwixt; never able to maximize any ofthe two options.
The biggest mismatch problem IMO, is in the front three, both with and without the ball. With the ball in the wide areas, we lack speed, lack 1v1 threat. Without the ball we’ve lost the ability to press effectively, which allowed the MF to dominate games last season.
And because we lost the ability to press effectively, the profile of our MF is being shown up as not matching the reality of our current game, and maybe needing a destroyer rather than controlling midfielders, which is what we have.
I’m happy for Arsenal fans. They shouldn’t care about what folks like me think. But this kinda football is only good in the short run. And this football is not for me.
But its up to teams like us to expose it for what it is. And we have failed to do this all season…
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