Carlton just went 1-4.
I love my sporting life atm.
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I progressively tend to come to the same conclusion. The game against Galatasaray gave me hope, but it wasn’t the start of an improvement, just an exception which shows how good the players are. But against well-organized opponents, individual quality isn’t enough. And that’s where good management is needed.
Still don’t understand how Slot has gone from winning us the title with a flawless tactical and managerial performance over a good part of last season, to the shambles we are seeing now. It’s surreal.
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Agree with you both.
They haven’t just forgotten how to play. Sprinkle in some new faces and we could see rapid improvement quite quickly.
(from a pretty low base…)
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It’s like when the Dean in Community is kidnapped and replaced by a bald lookalike.
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Liverpool midfielder Curtis Jones has been spotted driving a customized light grey 6.7L Rolls-Royce Cullinan II V12 Black Badge, worth approximately £400k-£430k, to the AXA Training Ground. The luxury SUV, often featuring red brake calipers, is frequently highlighted in social media videos documenting player cars.
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Typical modern footballers. I remember Andre Wisdom crashing some fancy sports car or other and he’d probably played about 3 league cup matches for us at that point! 
(Don’t anyone take me literally and start digging back for the story and cross referencing appearances because they have nothing better to do for fucks sake)
I know what Mascot means about the players though. When they’re winning, we generally don’t care, but if they’re playing like a Sunday league team all this expensive clothing and cars feels a bit off. It’s just the modern footballer though sadly.
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I think it’s a bit of both. The players definitely have ability. It just didn’t feel like there is anyone there driving standards anymore. The Millie or Hendo type. I’m sure Robbo, Virg and Mo have done this in the past also but they’re probably preoccupied with their own age-induced decline.
Szobo posting his Rolex after getting humped by Brighton then having a go at the fans after City is symptomatic.
Feels like we’ll need a really strong manager next to pull them back in line
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He is wonderful. It has not been confirmed directly, but it has been widely reported that he’s told the club he is walking away this summer. His football has a blend of pragmatism (see him quickening the pace of the Barca side he inherited to get it forward for at the expense of possession because he had players who could hurt the opposition by doing that) while still being incredibly enjoyable to watch in a way that “pragmatic” like Rafa and Jose often werent. And he creates good sides. To a degree you can shrug at winning titles at clubs like PSG and Barca, but it notable how much better he made the versions of those teams that he oversaw than the ones that came before and after.
I have absolutely no doubt he would in short order fix the issues that have fallen on this team, give us one that crowd would easily get behind, and we’d win stuff. I think he’s a wanderer though and we’d likely be in the same position again after 3-4 years. Maybe that is an artifact of the clubs he’s been at before where there are people behind the scenes making life difficult for the manager and at a club like liverpool (with the right partnership from the backroom) he could find a home. But I doubt it. In contrast you could see someone like Alonso being content to last a decade or more here as long as it was going well.
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More like this atm…
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Bring back the days where Kilinnsman turned up gor training at Spurs driving a volkswagon beetle…
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And i think there have been stories over the last year or so suggesting FSG have been long term admirers, and that he would be on our shortlist if a vacancy arose this summer…
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There have also been suggestions that it’s a play for a new contract.
I would also argue that Alonso managed the team while Arbeloa is being managed by the team.
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Yeah but I think you’ll find …
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That’s a big statement from someone who just played in the Legends game… Poorly
Was still riding the coattails of his predecessor.
It all fell apart over the summer when the team was fucking gutted. I think the death of Diogo hung a cloud over the dressing room for a short period of time but this is no longer that.
We need a proper manager, and Slot has shown he doesn’t have that talent in his toolbox
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Simply put, Slot is too early in his career to be a manager for LFC. He didn’t face a crisis like this in his career before..It was all rather smooth sailing for him nearly all the time.
In the Dutch league itself, I don’t think teams press a lot for long stretches of the game which may have led Slot to underestimate the importance of fitness and strength conditioning in the PL. I think Slot may have also underestimated the speed of how opposition teams in the PL innovate new ways to defeat you.
Slot was really helped by the previous regime’s fitness conditioning and tactical pressing whose effect stretched all the way to 3/4 of last season. With his tactical tweaks backed with the effects of the fitness conditioning and tactical pressing of the previous regime, it worked absolute wonders. Plaudits were coming from everyone and the opposition teams were crumbling when faced with his team.
It might be possible that made Slot think way more highly on himself than it really is.
That might have develop a sense of arrogance in Slot. He might have thought his approach is always right where a small tight knit squad and not using the younger players will always work.. That same sense of arrogance that rubbed off the whole bloody team jet off to Ibiza nearly 1 month before the season ended.
The signs were there in the final 4 games of that season but mostly everybody was in the post-title stupor to realise that.
This season saw a huge raft of the players( both senior and youth) from the old regime leaving the club and a slightly new group( largely senior players) to replace them.
Till now, I don’t think he has realised that the previous regime’s fitness conditioning and tactical pressing was the foundation of what worked last season. The tactical pressing left when a huge chunk of the senior players left and Slot has no idea on how to get everyone to press OOP as it is not in his game.
Last season, it was 4-2-4 OOP. Opposition teams learnt that by going long. Slot don’t seemed prepared to counter that at all. He simply binned it and made the team stand off players in the midfield…
Here we are, we have a Liverpool team that is incoherent where the forwards press but the midfield and defence drops off for some mysterious reason leading a fuck load of space in the midfield, a Liverpool team running out of legs by the 70th minute, a Liverpool team who has no idea what to do at certain phases of the game.
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Everything won’t magically resolve at the club when Slot departs, but it will be a crucial step. We are at the stage where we need a sense of release, so we can all take a breath and then have permission to move forward again, with hope in our hearts. And there’s a very real sense in which that last sentence applies to both players and fans alike.
I’m an optimistic sort, and while we can all list loads of players we would love to sign, I think even 2-3 judicious signings - integrated into a well coached unit, under a new man with a clear vision, will see us competing and challenging for the title again. This team is a strange enigma right now. It has been crap for a while, but I know they are much better than this! Some will phase out, but the bulk of a really good side is there, if harnessed properly.
Slot is not the man to do that, but I won’t call him names or disrespect him. He won the Premier League title, and we’ve only got two of those. That will never be taken away from him, even if things have lost their way and we now need a new leader.
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It is clear that the egg head simply piggy-backed Klopp’s legacy (the squad, the structure, the style) during the last season, and by the time he is on his own, his limits are exposed.
Edwards and Hughes picked him because only low-tier coaches like him would agree to give away powers over transfer decisions.