I have answered each point that you put forward, I have also in other posts explained what teams are doing to make us struggle and it is me making up bollox and what narrative have I changed.
I think we have had a fantastic season and Arne is doing brilliantly, but I am not blinkered in that we have struggled in quite a few games to be in control especially in the 1st half.
I also realise that I am unrealistic in that a I want us to be perfect and no team can perfect.
Even with what I have said above and thinking back over the whole of the season I can only recollect, 4 games where we haven’t been the better team and deserved a result even though we may have got one.
Forest at home, the players were dreadful that day, couldn’t pass wind.
PSG away, I did think we deserved to win at home against them.
Wolves at home,
Fulham although in the end we could have scraped a draw.
3 of those games have been in the last 6 weeks.
If you had told me this at the beginning of the season I would have snatched your hand off.
Isn’t Slot the Manager, not the Head Coach? (Thread title)
Nope head coach
Just heard a quote on Redmen tv, that made me laugh but summed up what some feel.
It’s like when you are playing championship manager, not that I play, where it comes and says
“The chairmans is happy with your league position, but is worried about your current form”
Although, for me I would change the happy for ecstatic
so in that case, who is going to be responsible for player transfers and such?
so the structure has changed in the club, am going to assume it’s Edwards doing that now?
Hughes is the DoF for Liverpool
Edwards is DoFO for FSG
Hughes is responsible for transfers, but of course he will have a collaborative approach with Slot and they will talk regularly. The set up is continental and sustainable, so recruitment doesn’t have to be ripped up and started again, as you go from head coach to head coach. There will be a style and a type of player the club looks for, age profile and so on, as well as a budget that the DOF manages.
England is the last hold out for fans thinking it should be all on the manager. Even then, that viewpoint is dying out as the whole enterprise is so big nowadays.
Edwards is the CEO of Football for FSG.
Ok
I thought he was DoFO, but stand corrected
Think I might buy this….
I’m not sure where else to put this, but I was wondering based on the research I did for my post in the Arsenal thread:
So much has been made about how we’ve been poorer in the second half of the season, but actually, if we take a comparison the first 19 league games we played so far this season, I think it’s roughly comparable. For the first 19 games we had 14 wins, 4 draws, and 1 loss for 46 points. 2.42 points per game. Since then, we’ve played 14 games, with 10 wins, 3 draws, and 1 loss for 33 points, or 2.36 points per game.
That difference of 0.06 leads to a 2.43 points difference over the entire season, or really just a 1 point difference for half a season.. Which I suppose in a tight season makes all the difference, but it’s otherwise negligible, and if we manage to win the rest of our games, which is eminently doable since of the teams we need to play, it’s only Arsenal we’ve dropped points against, then we would actually have performed better results-wise in the second half of the season.
If you factor in the accumulated fatigue, that difference is insignificant, no, laughable.
If we extrapolate the form of the second half of the season thus far, we’d be projected to win 4 and draw 1. Which is quite remarkable. 92 points it leaves us on, I think?
Our “big blip” was either when we drew against Everton and Villa (with a win against Wolves sandwiched in between) in February, or just losing that one game against Fulham recently. Of course people will take elimination from the Champions League and losing the final hard, but I will also note that we won away anyway, so it’s just the two losses.
Numbers are just that. It’s what we are seeing that counts to us surely?
Even the supporters at games are reflecting how we are playing. It’s a lot quieter in the stadium. That’s because we are not performing as well, with less confidence and domination.
I expect us to tail off a little bit, in comparison to the first half of the season, right near the end, with the thing already in the bag.
We might not, but it is difficult to keep turning it on at a high level once the objective is met.
The way I look at it is our playing level has dropped a bit in the second half of the season, but we have still amassed points with great consistency, such that anyone else - I’m looking at you Arsenal - who has tried to challenge has been well off the pace.
I think since the time when Arteta said ‘over my dead body’ when asked if they would give up, they have drawn five, won three, and lost one league game. I haven’t done the maths but that is mid table at best. I hate the word bottlers but it applies to them in this instance. We will fight to the death! Er, nope. You will stumble and drop points at a rate of knots.
Consistency wins the title. Twas ever thus. And we have been, by far, the most consistent team.
Or because the title is becoming more and more inevitable?
The alternative proposition to what I said above this quote though is that perhaps we’re playing worse because the fans are a lot quieter and therefore less intimidating for the opponents?
They’ve won only 14 of the last 27, Limie pointed it out in the Arsenal thread which prompted me to see how we’ve done, leading to this point.
No fans react to the team.