Personally I can’t see them firing him with 8 games to go and an FA Cup quarter final to come unless we get absolutely humbled by Galatasary and the players start voicing some concerns publicly.
If they have a successor identified - cough cough Xabi cough cough - bring him in now, and give him the rest of the season to get a feeling for the players at his disposal, and hopefully try to put his stamp on things. Its a short summer with the World Cup, and it would at least give the brain trust the ability to get some feedback on the next season in terms of what he needs.
If its a dead cert Slot is gone in the Summer, and the general consensus seems to be he is, then persisting with things as-is for the absolute sake of it makes no sense.
To me, at some point ‘during our stroll in the park’ PL win last season, the club, players and in particular, Slot himself became complacent.
Once that happens, in any walk of life, it is very difficult to ‘dig-in’ and work your way out of it again. This seems the scenario for our struggles this season… or, it could just be we have Waitrose calibre footballers, being coached by a Poundland coaching staff that are being brutally exposed in the PL standard of teams.
David van der Brent has already addressed the boos in his post match comments, pointing out they were directed at the players and he understood the frustration.
Can’t see how he stays in a job unless he wins the champions league.
Uneven first half of the season expected given the major squad overhaul. This is the time in the season where the squad should be gelling and starting to play the football we can expect to look forward to next season. If this is what we’ve got coming we’re not moving up the table next season either. Constant square pegs in round holes with bizarre obsessions to players massively out of form and willfully ignoring the options available to him. Digging his own grave atm. Much change needed; either within him to start actually using the squad well and effectively, or in the form of removing him.
Losing and drawing happens. Bad runs of form happen. Having no discernable style or pattern of play is alarming and suggests no change in fortunes is coming. That is the much bigger problem.
He looks a coach short of ideas and his players look lost. I kept watching the Spurs match waiting for Spurs to equalize, which is an embarrassing indictment of the way Slot has turned us from believers into doubters.
And the biggest problem with slot last season was that he was telling every team we played and beat their problems that he was spotting…it was nothing more than showing how clever he was when it came to his knowledge of tactics…
The problem was the teams he was giving this insight into, listened and fixed the issues that he had pointed out, thats why he has no way of getting us results.
There is an idea that seems to have taken hold is that from where we were last season that a rebuilding was required and made sustaining the success of last season unrealistic. I utterly reject that and also that it remotely describes what happened between last season and now.
There were indeed elderly statesment who played an important role in our success last year, but as @GaryBarlow99 says, they were the ones we invested in keeping. The moves we made were not primarily (at all?) about getting younger, but retooling to support the manager’s attempts at taking the side to the next level. It was largely elective. So I reject utterly the ideas that the side we had last year required this sort of transitional season. On top of that, even accepting that I think we did too much in the summer, I still think the way the season has gone represents a massive failure for the manager.
Trying to make a good side better is a dangerous thing. What you lose with any change runs a real risk of being more important than the things you gain. The manager has shown his ability to implement a change of that degree to be lacking, and has shown nothing over the many months of the season to suggest he’s capable of figuring it out
Klopp couldn’t win the league with them when he was here the year before, but now he won it in a season where he’d gone? Come on. We’re better than this.
Can’t we say it’s gone pair shaped for Slot without having to retrospectively take his achievements off him as well? Things can go wrong with people who have previously done well.
. Hes not setting the world alight.