Apparently, there were returned tickets available before the game, which has been unheard of for the last 9 years. And that was before we dropped points to the team with the worst run of form in the PL.
If Anfield is voting with its feet, the end is near.
I think in time he will be viewed similar to Claudio Ranieri. No bad manager wins the Premier League. However it’s recognised that the stars somewhat aligned to lead to their success.
Klopp in many ways was deeply unlucky. Near-perfection levels of performance, and deserved far more trophies than he achieved.
When Slot came in, we didn’t become a better team. We continued what was already there. The squad, intensity and mentality had been built over years.
The good fortune was that both City and Arsenal underperformed. We won the league with the lowest points total since Leicester a decade earlier.
My take is that in his first season Slot initially handled it well. He was fairly humble, recognised it was a big step up, and didn’t change too much which was smart. But as time went on he bought into his own hype. He started shifting away from the existing philosophy, moving away from the things that had made the side so effective under Klopp.
And for me, that was the beginning of the decline. The warning signs were there when he started trying to “improve” a system that had already been proven at the highest level. Instead of evolution, it became unnecessary change. What followed wasn’t bad luck it was the slow erosion of the foundations that had made the team elite.
BBC match report, specifically the Match Stats tab:
Chris Williams has not held back. A number of tweets about Slot and those above.
That looks more like smooth Jazz. We seem to have gone from Heavy Metal: fast, extremely intense and everything louder than everything else; to Free Form Jazz: everyone playing their own tune in their own key and time signature, with little regard to what anyone else is playing, seemingly half way through someone throws the drummer down a stairwell, and the end result is an incoherent mess that you are praying to God will end soon.
And you’re still on a mission to totally misrepresent every point I make?
I’ve just been looking back over the last couple of months, and its really quite depressing. I could see a point where we seemed to improve, better control of games and an improvement in things like set-pieces, only for us to revert back to a clueless muddle.
I don’t think some of the injuries have helped, but that happens to every team (I mean spurs without 13 players yesterday was insane). Last season, we were quite lucky with injuries as they were relatively few and spread out in a way that we could accommodate them. Having said that, Slot’s tweaks on the team did help, as it prevented players from running out of steam.
This season, I can’t even place where the problem is exactly. Yesterday was a case in point. We had multiple occasions were great balls were played in but no-one anticipated where the ball was likely to go, or the passing player had no idea where their teammates were going to be. I’d expected that at the beginning of the season, but it seems to have become worse the more players have played together.
Apparently, there were tickets unsold for yesterday’s game, which is almost unheard of for the last 10 years. Whatever FSG think of the on-field performance, I suspect that they will take notice of people voting with their wallets.
Watching our Inside Training videos, and comparing them to what you see from the likes of Bayern Munich, it’s been chalk and cheese. Our intensity is pathetic.
If it was possible to pin a post, I’d pin this one
If I were in charge of Liverpool, he’d have been gone weeks ago.
My argument is not about whether he should be sacked or not. It’s about how we conduct ourselves in that opinion. Whether it’s reasonable to call him a ‘bald prick’. How much we indulge our own anger by retrospectively diminishing his achievements. How much collective blame we force onto his shoulders. Basically how much class we want to show as we part company.
Amazes me that people find it hard to hold two things as true at the same time. Slot was excellent when he started out here. Even if it was just running with what Klopp left, making some small tweaks to shore us up and conserve energy, then that was good leadership. He was very humble with the credit he was receiving back then. He was a big part of the wonderful days we had celebrating the league. Arne also led the club well through the summer tragedy.
This season has been unrelentingly shite. We’ve fallen to a point where we’re just a very average PL side that looks totally fragile and and lacking in hope. A change is clearly needed as there is no indication that anything will get better from here.
All of these things can be true.
Lol and I look at that heaps, but mainly for possession xg and the timeline bar/graph thingy
Yeah you may want him gone but people don’t have to get personal.
But the fact is this…he isn’t going anywhere…until the end of the season at least.
Would I and many others sack him today? Yes.
But it isn’t happening. He’s here until end of season.
As @RER said - the time to sack him was after PSV at home and yes we are sleep walking through this season.
We all know this season ends (more than likely) with us winning nothing and missing out on CL but the club don’t seem bothered or he would’ve been sacked ages ago.
Leicester sacked Raneiri and it saved them from going down the year after they won the league. We needed to make this call ages ago as everyone above us in the league (with the exception of Arsenal even though they arent great) are terrible and we still cant put a run together.
The problem is, it’s not just Slot, but his entire coaching staff who would have to go. There is an international break at the end of this month which would give a window for a new coaching team to be installed, but they wouldn’t be able to spend much time with most of the players before the next fixture (FA Cup 6th round away to City on Saturday lunchtime).
£10M to sack him and his team
or lose £50m on CL qualification…then pay £10m to sack him!
That FA cup tie would be a free hit for a new manager. Nobody expects us to win, so even an honourable loss would be a positive and if we’re thrashed, that’s on the outgoing regime.
That assumes that any replacement (or caretaker) would still achieve top 5. Then again, I suspect that Arne is now having a net negative effect on the team’s performance.
If you had of said to me at the start of the season that in mid March we would be in the FA Cup quarters, knock out phase in CL and CL qualifying top 5 on the League table I would have said yeah cool that will do. We will bring it home from there. Wrong.
I have no confidence except that we will beat Gala and then be shot thereafter. Time for change.
But it seems all quiet over at Alonsoville. I would have thought his name would come up with several clubs by now.
It’s Klopp mark 2. He is lined up and the announcement is imminent.
Arne Slot: And asked about the importance of that time off, the head coach described it as “necessary” for his squad and “always nice” for himself to rejoin his family in Zwolle.
Let’s make the rejoining in Zwolle permanent.
This season the club has accumilated some pretty telling stats.
i.e. try to hold on to a single goal lead, don’t hold on to a single goal lead, panic, repeat.