This I agree with. Slot is a downgrade from how warm and personable Klopp was.
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Maybe I do.
I donāt know. But I think what I think, right now and for me the Leeds capitulation was the final straw with Slot, because it showed that nothing is working in regards to morale. I donāt think it will blow over. I see this as a symptom and I think the damage to squad morale now is just too great and is unlikely to improve a lot.
I hope I am wrong. Of course I do.
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Pretty much agreed with everything Carra had to say there on the situation.
He does need to remember heās had a lot of help from fans, coaches and team mates for the success weāve had and to stop with the idea heās done it by himself. And if it wasnāt for Liverpool in the first instance, only God knows where heād have been playing his football the last 8 years.
This popped into my feed today, had forgotten about this incident. Mo bad it out with Jurgen too. Ego getting the best of him
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Please name a manager who isnāt, we canāt hold any coach to the same standard for man management as Jurgen he was a freak, an unbelievable human being in his love, understanding and commitment to his players.
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Sorry, but no. I donāt think you can say this is evidence of incompetent man management. Itās clearly not a strength, but nor can we say heās incompetent.
Mo Salah has always had this kind of strop in his locker. He did it with Klopp on occasions as well.
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Yup. There are other people in the world like him, just not in the world of football management.
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The cameras were on Salah when Leeds had equalised, every other player was warming up, including Isak, and Mo was sitting on the bench still. Arne in his post match presser went on about how he of course would not bring him in 2-0, then we were at level, and then we were 3-2 up again and then it wouldnt make sense to bring Mo on again. He just failed to mention that he did not tell Mo to get warmed up when we were at 2-2.
So I see it that Slot had decided not to play him either way, and I can understand Mo feeling like he did when he wasnāt even an option in the managers mind to come on when we needed a goal.
Maybe you are right, Mascot.
But I wrote last season 2-3 times that I really worried what would happen if we needed second or third string players to play, since Slot never matched them, so we would never get any new break out players like we saw under Klopp. I also wrote that although I worried, I felt that I had no right to ācomplainā, because we were winning the league and it seemingly was working.
But now it is not working and like I wrote last year, we wonāt have players from the greater squad break through into the first line, because Slot barely even matches our second string, far less third string. So we have no mass, none that isnāt full of rust anyway. I think in hindsight, this has been a disaster and bad squad management.
And now we have morale issues in our first line up. There has been talk now for a long while that several players are unhappy. Then Salah does this. Obviously he shouldnāt have, and yes, he is a primadonna. But itās a symptom, not a cause.
But ok, Iāll give you that the Salah situation (which imo is a just a minor paragraph in the wider saga) is not evidence of Slotās lack of man management skills alone. Maybe the rest I wrote about not using the squad, is not evidence either. But I do think itās important and damning. Then you can say, you said āin hindsightā, and sure. I was a worried observer, seeing that all was going well, but noted that I found it worrisome even so. But it was going well. So I could barely shout and scream when we were winning the league.
And also, I really donāt think the man management skills are the only issues at hand regarding our lack of shape and form, but that is a digression and this is supposedly the Salah thread.
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Now our fans are arguing about whether Carra is right or not. Itās creepyā¦ I just hope Mo doesnāt get the idea to reply to Carra. Then things will get really bad.
Pretty much agree with everything Carra said, but itās not fair nor even correct to say Salah hasnāt won a major trophy before Liverpool.
I know Basel and Switzerland isnāt a great level, but he won 2 leagues there, letās not disrespect that. There is football outside England, the glamurous PL and it was surely an important step in Moās path then.
He can use different words if he wanted to say that he hasnāt won at the highest level previously.
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He already mentioned him in his rant, predicting that Carra would react (and rightly so), soā¦
No surprises.
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The thing is we were playing pretty well before Konateās brain fuck. Clearly had a game plan and was the most comfortable away 2-0 you could possibly get. We then demonstrated our complete fragility by collapsing again. How much of that is down to Slot is unclear but if he canāt sort it out soon heāll not be around much longer (sadly IMO)
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You can tell Carra has been busting all weekend to get on tv and stick the boot in. What the fuck does Salahās time with Chelsea and Egypt have to do with the current situation?
Mo obviously let the club down but I think a lot of journos and pundits are doing likewise, pouring fuel on the fires for likes and comments
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You use different things to explain something. Same as Salah touching on Haaland and Kane.
And yes, the media in general are loving this (I donāt think Carra does, heās a big Liverpool fan), someone gave them fresh meat.
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Nobody is arguing.
Carra only talks shite.
Thatās why heās employed by Sky Sports. To cause controversy.
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