the short answer is yes.
not 24/7/52, but at this end of the season, on the season we’ve had, with midweek games booked in, its a 7 days a week role.
youd have to be extremely careful of burnout, but Fullham-PSG-Everton, i dont think theres a day off in there…
that said, if hes just having a bit of lunch…then back to the grind.
you just dont know and random photos are hardly evidence of a lack of work ethic.
i dont get on the socials, but like anything the devil will be in the detail
was it a barage of negativity?, or was it a few comments and then a barage of good will.
Wednesday was a rest day, so I assume he went down there on the train. Could also be down there for other matters as well.
Yeah Jurgen also spent way too much time in Sunny Blackpool!
Sorry, I’ve not read any further than this post at the moment so if this has been discussed in between your post here and mine apologies..
I still remember Rodgers doing this when Skrtel made a mistake that cost us - I think against City, although I could be wrong. After the game he said it was his fault, that he was looking to get the team playing a different style than they had been playing and basically that he expected there would be the odd mistake while players were getting used to it.
And I loved it. I could accept that we had the idea of how we would play and what we needed to do to get there. It instantly took away the responsibility of costing us from Skrtel.
Unfortunately it didn’t last and Rodgers ended up spouting all sorts of nonsense to cover for himself which coincided with him throwing out his ideology and shifting tactics and formations weekly until he found one that he liked, right up until the next loss after which he’d change it all again.
To me Slot is well into that second phase that I mentioned above. When he was being interviewed on that American show for the Champions League after a game and he criticised Carragher. Basically Carra said that Slot needed to stop us conceding and then when he changed it to the mind numbingly boring defensive style Carragher then talked about us not creating enough. Somehow Slot decided that he needed to complain to Carragher about criticising when he had simply followed Carra’s advice.
When I hear and read the majority of things Slot keeps talking about I just get annoyed. It feels like he’s ripping the soul out of everything that the Club had regained when Klopp was here. If you didn’t say who it was talking and asked me if it was Hodgson, Rodgers or Slot I’d honestly have difficulty in knowing who it was. Anyone wants to have a go at getting quotes from all three managers and see how many people can differentiate between the shite that all three of them spouted at times please feel free.
“It’s not that often that Liverpool play 1/4 finals of the UCL.”
I actually hadn’t heard him say that but it’s a quote that I find disgusting and self-serving. We’ve been in the fucking final of the same competition three times in the past decade. How dare Slot come in here and put down the achievements done before him just to try and make himself not look as useless as he actually is.
Agreed. Its hodgsonesque.
It’s something that has been raising my hackles as well. I’ll paraphrase another one below as well:
‘we have to remember that two seasons ago this club was playing in the Europa League’
I was a bit curious as to whether maybe he is right about the quarter final thing so from the 2001/2 which was our first season back in CL football since Heysel:
Chelsea: 11 QF’s in 23 seasons
Liverpool: 10 QF’s in 23 seasons
United: 9 QF’s in 23 seasons
Arsenal: 8 in 23 seasons
I find these type of comments bizarre in that he’s trying to insinuate we were coming from a situation where the Club wasn’t in a good state and built up to where he’s now in the Champions League and we’re punching above our weight and that QF appearances are rare when neither are actually true. There has been a lot of commentary about the language thing and then, ‘he’s just Dutch’. All balls, he’s well aware of what he’s saying and he’s very fluent in the language to be able to avoid an unknowing faux pas.
There really isn’t much left to say anymore. It’s patently obvious that he is not up to the job and that he has to go.
Excuses, excuses, excuses – he’s very good at one thing, and that’s coming up with excuses for why he loses.
Just looking at that smug little smile makes me sick.
I know we like to think we’re above it, but idiot shit like this proves Arne never had a chance.
Was that what he was saying/ implying, i took it to be a comment on the league’s competitiveness and that qualification isnt always assured?
Just an unlikeable person (I’m trying to be nice).
This “woe is me” shtick is starting to get on my nerves. He inherited a team that was strong enough to win the league in his first attempt and was strengthened by 450 mil. of talent in the following summer.
He’s acting like he has to make due with scraps.
We also have been unlucky to play in the premier league against so many good managers and advanced tactics. Had it been the 1st division…
Well he was a ‘rock’.
Slot, ‘the two best teams in open play’
Me, ‘then close them down!’
The only issue I have with that comment is his implied opinion of where we are at the moment. While that is true, it’s his job to fix it, and we are actually going in the wrong direction.
If he said that as well, good. If not, hmmm
On whether Slot has a chance of turning it around next season.
Yes definitely. Possible but it depends.
We have to concede that this season really started on the wrong foot, key players missing a lot of pre-season, Jota’s death, huge player turnover, huge injury crisis, etc. Things during the season come relentlessly and there is very little opportunity to do a hard “reset” if you got things wrong from the beginning.
What we should have seen though was some small improvement. But perhaps under the pressure of poor results, criticism and an internal war with Salah… mentally our Club and players are all worn out. I.e., need for a hard reset which is not available.
A new season does signal a new beginning, new preparation, etc. So yes, there is a chance that the Slot of 24/25 resurfaces.
Equally though, he could have destroyed his relationship with the squad and will not be able to get the best out of them anymore. In which case, leaving Slot till next fall may in fact be a disaster when the best managerial options are not available.
Thus, from a risk perspective I would change in the summer unless the careful assessment of what went wrong reveals areas where if addressed gives us a really convincing chance of competing at the top next season.
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On Slot’s interviews… it is hard for anyone not to defend themselves from unfair criticism. Yes, Slot does deserve a lot of criticism and he is doing very poorly. But the personal attacks and unfair comparisons are still well more than he deserves.
Forget about team imbalance. Just from ballpark squad value:
Spent 450, recouped 220 = 230 and loaned out another 40M player in Elliott = 190m. Jota, a 55/60M player was lost and our 100m RB left for 10m
Our 30m CB was out for the season since his first start. Our record signing Isak 125m has never been match fit or injury free. And there have been many other injuries above that.
Slot has really played this season with about 110m less available to him after our “record spend”. Add on the decline of Salah which has been enormous.
So… having our own fans put the weight of a 400m+ spend on the club, well… I understand opposing supporters doing this but ourselves? We were very unlikely to ever be nearly as good as last year given what happened.
Given the circumstances, I’m not surprised that we are where we are (i.e., fighting for a CL spot). But the manner of how we capitulate is very worrying.
If we decide to stick with Slot, I would be bringing in the sports psychologist.
He’s lost the players imo. Nobody comes back from that. You can bring up mitigating circumstances and all the stats you want but he’s not fixing that.