I doubt anyone’s going to lift the lid but I’d love to know what conversations have been happening behind the scenes. The malaise that has set in, which started long before the Jota tragedy but which, of course, gave it sombre impetus, just feels (from the outside) so endemic now.
Who’s taking steps to intervene? Why has it been allowed to not only persist but fester even further?
This is not just on Slot and to say otherwise is incredibly unfair. Yes, his replacement is the first necessary step to recovery but who has allowed this situation to continue unarrested? Someone should have taken the bull by the horns a long time ago and their failure to do so makes them equally culpable, in my view.
Plenty of us have already said our pieces. This victory against our local rival has nothing to do with Slot’s tactics (or lack there of, because we were just dreadful to watch). We were desperate for subs but he just left the players on for far too long, the the subs did not really make much sense. Have you seen the poor passing game and lack of support between the players?
It took him a full 18 minutes after the equaliser to figure out that Isak is not fully up to speed. It took him a full half hour after the equaliser to realise that we needed more fresher legs…So fucking slow…
People moaned about his subs against PSG as they were too attack heavy too early and we got done on the break chasing the game with plenty of time left on the clock.
Today his subs are too slow when we were chasing the game and we had one less forward option we could bring on to help change the game or bring Isak off for.
I’m very comfortable with the idea he’s not the manager to take us forward after this season but every little thing is now being used as a criticism, even when he’s doing the thing people said he should have done last week.
Pretty sure Arne Slot can fix this in two years if the club backs him financially £300m each summer will do. Doubt the money will be available and I doubt he will be offered a contract extension.
Almost every player got worse under Slot this year and he fucked up our squad depth. Elliott and Quansah gone. Others like Jones, Endo and Gomez only start if Slot has no other choice.
We need a brave manager/head coach with creative ideas and able to push through young players.
I doubt our academy is as bad as it feels like at the moment and I’m sure Xabi knows some young and cheap players in Germany and Spain who could feature in the first team after a short time.
Lovely win today. Quite possibly it was mostly down to the players digging deep to make sure they got the three points to help CL qualification next season. It’s the tournament they want to be in, so it feels like something might be clicking a little, not in terms of well coached action, but more the dogged determination to make sure you get what you need.
Either way, we should know all we need to know about Slot by now. Ok, we have a few more data points to go until the season ends, but overall it shouldn’t change too much when it comes to an end of season review, when set against the masses of data leading up to now.
The only thing people moaned about was starting Isak and the Gomez sub, which happenedwhen we we were controlling the game and looked the most likely to score, this has now been explained and understood.
It is all connected. Fitness conditioning and muscle stress conditioning…This article literally confirms the eye test of our boys getting more muscle related injuries out compared to Slot’s first season and Klopp’s worst hit injury season…
I know Simon Brundish is big on stats and fitness so this is probably accounted for but I wonder if the stark difference in numbers can be accounted for by;
Player availability - were players out injured for longer under Klopp and therefore less likely to be playing and so picking up mid match injury ?
Could it be from players being rushed back from injury?
Could it be players under Klopp were playing through injuries more frequently?
Chaos frequency within games (previous seasons have probably allowed greater control within games and I’m not quite sure I understand why he says this isn’t relevant here)
Was anyone at the match yesterday?
I would like to know how was the journey, logistics going to the Everton stadium for the locals living in the merseyside area?
I heard, it is not that easy to get there by public transport.
