I would doubt that very much considering how Slot is reported of being very instrumental in Wirtz arrival. There’s also how he has handled Kerkez, Frimpong and above all Isak.
Of course there was his first season where he had to grapple with what we had. Yet that started in excellent fashion though petered out over time. It was also reported he was happy with this arrangement.
It’s only recently that he’s been crying about the squad.
Of course not getting Guéhi has turned out to be a bit of a bummer. Jota surely a big blow as well.
Diaz is surely the only big contention and we didn’t want to give him an improved contrat. Should that have been revised?
Either we should have kept him another season while we set up a replacement, or kept him on with a deal satisfactory for both parties.
Completely letting him go and expecting new boys alongside Cody (who isn’t the best at pressing and is proving to be very one-dimensional) and Rio (who is literally a kid) was a gross miscalculation.
The kind for which heads should roll
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Ffs, someone make it stop.
Why did I have to click on this thread dammit.
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It doesnt appear he took note, or indeed…
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Sorry I have just realised what you meant!! Sorry for my sarcastic response, totally uncalled for in the circumstances.
To be fair we saw the same with Rodgers up until 3 days prior to sacking him after the Sion game where I think Bascombe said that FSG would be sacking him win or lose after the derby.
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Come on Tony Barrett, say something 
For me, again, I fully expect the club to come out publicly with support for Slot. Ornstein is well connected there, so I’m certain this is the messaging the club wants to deliver right now.
Why? Because we’ve got 6 Premier League games to go and CL qualification is in the balance. Publicly giving Slot the status of a dead man walking as we go into that run is not the way to go.
When the end comes it will be swift and decisive, with a new man already lined up.
If the club is making these noises about backing Slot, all I take from it is that he will be here until the end of the season. Beyond that? I very much doubt it, but let’s see.
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No idea where to put this… And it’s The Telegraph, and the article is focusing on ManU losing out their man. 
Luis Enrique close to signing new PSG deal
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Not surprised.
He can attract something better than this Liverpool or this United.
Maybe some other time, when we also have some question marks answered.
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Will Slot be still here in the summer? I don’t know but I’m pretty sure he fully expects it.
He’s saying ‘we have to sell to be able to buy’ - Hello Arne, you’re the head coach - not a manager. So better concentrate on your job which is coaching players, improving players, getting the best out of the whole squad and establishing young players in the first team.
His input in transfers last summer? For example agreeing to sell Luis Diaz. None of our players can lace his boots this season. So what went wrong?
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One of the issues Ive had with Slot this year, going all the way back to Bournemouth on day 1, is how contradictory his comments became and how often he found himself leaning on an explanation for our troubles (an excuse?) that was a contradiction to things he’d argued before.
We now seem to have forgotten how through so much of the autumn and winter we leaned on the issue of us having gone through a big change as an “excuse” for our sputtering form, and what we need is time and consistency for this group to come together. Now months later when that didnt happen and we’re approaching another window its a case of needing to go through all that again?
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Isn’t that’s what we call someone “He is just full of shit”?
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This is the kind of blow like the kind that happened to me when Dom got married.
Like it was never going happen.
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He’ll have an input on player recruitment and departures irrespective of his job title. And so he should until the day he isn’t leading the team.
Recruitment is a collective responsibility. Has been for a decade now. Manager, DoF, scouts, analysts, ownership all play a role. Diaz moving on has been done to death. We all know he wanted a new contract, a big wage hike and at his age we weren’t going to do that. The issue wasn’t letting Diaz go, it was not replacing him.
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The last thing I want to see is Enrique at United, so him staying at PSG is my second preference only to my first preference of us hiring him.
To be sure, I’d be thrilled with Xabi. But Enrique is an outstanding manager and I’d also be thrilled if we brought him in this summer. I just don’t want him at a domestic rival under any circumstances.
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He’s going to act like it until he’s sacked, because that’s what a professional does. The work towards next season started long ago, and I’m sure the club are already exploring specific summer moves. It would be weird if Slot were cut out of that discussion while he’s still in the job.
I really don’t see how they were getting him anyhow. Sounds a bit fanciful to me.
Does sort of remind me of the last 12 years, often be linked with someone big and then ETH or Ole would show up.
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I don’t know why any manager would go there, to be fair - especially not one as successful as Enrique. Too much toxicity and piss poor ownership. They end up with the ETH’s and Amorims because it’s easier to convince managers desperate to take a leap to a “big club.”
I think they’ll end up with Iraola or maybe Glasner.
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