The football club or the forum?
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I am pleading the 5th
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I know he’s Dutch but after a while you probably need to look in the mirror…
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They didn’t let Alvaro finish:
“Tonight’s defeat was MY FAULT!
It’s my fault that I subbed in that absolute eedjit Camavinga.
That moron ruined it but it’s MY FAULT I put him in there.”
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Don’t you worry, we’re already sharpening our verbal razors
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What are you trying to say!!!
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It’s funny because I saw him saying the ref ruined the game with the sending off and all their players clearly thought it was the refs fault at the end of the game when they were giving him dogs abuse.
That said, I am very sick of hearing Slot talk about all the things that haven’t been perfectly as he’d like them. Part of his job is to overcome them. Fine, maybe that’s a big ask against PSG but we’ve lost 20 odd other games this season too.
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I thought about posting this article link in the FSG thread, but I think it is more appropriate in here, as I point my finger squarely at Slot for destroying our identity. (Didn’t I wrote previously that I do not like to find a scapegoat? I guess I am a hypocrite.)
Why Liverpool’s loss of culture is part of on-pitch decline
With Liverpool struggling, the club’s problems have been compounded this season by a lack of connection to the supporters.
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I wonder how Trent feels about the culture in Madrid, surrounded by a bunch of absolute muppets.
Regarding Arne. I don’t want him around next season. I don’t think he’s up to the job. But the culture thing isn’t on him alone. This is why we can’t bring in players simply on ability. They have to have that CHARACTER! That’s what connects with the fans. That’s what helps win matches when nothing is going your way.
Yes, you run through brick walls for great managers like Klopp.
But you also do so because there’s something within you.
And the fans FEEL that energy, and add to it.
Salah, Mane, Firmino, Gini, Hendo, Milly, Robbo, Virg, Ali all had it.
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If it turns out that Slot is at the helm going into next season I will personally give him a reset. Won the title. Then a bad season, but I will overlook the mitigating circumstances and give the third season a clean sheet. That means I won’t be baying for blood at the first defeat or iffy display.
It has to be a clean slate, or the situation will be untenable.
And that is precisely why (well, apart from everything we’ve seen this season!) I think he will be let go. A decent amount of fans have wanted him gone for months. A larger portion have been on the ‘wait and see bus’. I count myself among that group. But as we have waited, and as we have seen, the hits have just kept on coming. And here we are today. The current situation is that very few fans (hardly any?) want Slot to stay on beyond this season.
FSG must surely know that.
So if they stick with Slot they are inviting a situation that could almost blow up at the first sign of trouble next season, thus undermining the whole campaign.
Therefore I think a new man is on the way. Could be wrong, mind. Let’s see.
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We don’t have a choice on who is manager.
It’s that simple.
At this moment in time I want Arne gone. The season has been crap. Tactics, injuries, results, broken expectations, battered hopes…
If Arne is here next season, and starts well we will most likely shelve our thoughts ftom the cyrrent debacle. Give him a chance and support the team.
If he doesn’t turn the current trend on its head, we will become disenchanted very quickly.
We are Liverpool supporters, and much as we love individual players or managers, we love the club most of all.
I will be sad when Mo Salah and Robbo play their last Liverpool match. And I will spend the summer looking forward to the new season, new Liverpool.
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Just wondering, but if Hughes is staying on, I half wonder if that strengthens the whispers around Iraola?
My take is it is probably a job too soon for Iraola, and I am hoping it will be Alonso.
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If the fans blow up at the first sign of trouble, then that says also something about those fans. Let me immediately break the news and make it easier: yes, there will be trouble at some point, because it’s almost inevitable to have a season without it. What kind of trouble though?
I want the decision makers to keep a very cool head (I’m saying this trying to leave emotions aside completely, whether I would agree with their decision or not) and not give too much importance to what the fans might feel like. And by that, I mean match goers. Online world, less so, because that’s a mess which you cannot even measure and it’s better not even trying to. It has some influence like YouTubers (players are on the internet and some short videos are hard to completely avoid) and people who leave comments to players (if some even pay enough attention to it).
Because honestly, feelings of masses can also change as the wind changes. Yes, I know that sometimes it comes to a point of no return. Perhaps Slot is already past that with most fans.
I would expect or hope that match goers would be right behind Liverpool at the start of next season if Slot is in charge. That is not to say they will also expect improvement.
I’m prepared for all scenarios, from having Slot or a new man in charge and having CL football or having Slot or a new man in charge without being in Europe at all (I bloody hope we are in it).
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I’ve heard in our news yesterday, that Iraola is supposedly Leverkusen’s new preferred coach. He’s on the shortlist along with Huerzeler. Apparently, they want a change starting this summer. I have no idea if there’s any truth to it, but it’s been said, Leverkusen has a thing for Basque coaches these days.
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I’m in that camp as well. Every decent coach has bad spells. The really good ones can turn it around over time. I’d hoped that Arne would, but I have slowly come to the conclusion that he won’t.
I’d seen some signs of hope after Christmas that things were improving, but I lost faith after the Spurs game. I find now that the team comes out ill prepared and tactically haphazard, and that has to be on the boss.
I’m wondering if he is really more suited to being an assistant coach. Someone who can fine tune and see the details that were missed.
I still hope that there is something we can’t see in the setup, that once fixed will allow him to flourish, but I can’t imagine what it is at this point.
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Just to be clear if they keep him I won’t be calling for his head all summer.
But I won’t hold my tongue if it’s the same ponderous rubbish 3 games in.
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I think the only way Slot wins the fans over again is if he grows a personality, and very quickly at that. Not saying he comes across as a defeatist or anything, but the lame excuses and 5D game of chess with some of his recent selections are starting to grate a touch.
If he got us, got the club, and most importantly, got the fans, he would soon realise we have followed a very successful club over the years, and we have seen things and been to places other football fans can only dream about… Meaning, we have all acquired an internal ‘Bullshit Monitor’ when we are not being treated in the right manner by the hierarchy of the club…!
I have mentally prepared myself that he will be here next season, and it would not be the first time I have eaten humble-pie if he turns things around… but I genuinely believe he is toast here… main reason is that I don’t think he lives and breathes football in the manner other successful managers tend to do.
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Some of his recent quotes have the “tools” quote that Rodgers spouted and that finished him.
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I actually don’t think anything is yet decided. And it makes sense the club would back him till they sack him. If the words suddenly change when we qualify or out of the CL running then don’t be too surprised.
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