Agree with most points but my main issue with keeping Slot is this.
You either back him him by giving him a new deal to show everyone (inc future signings) that his is your guy or in next 48 hours you part ways.
We finished closer to West Ham who got relegated than than Arsenal while WE were the current Champions. That is a disgrace.
We got lucky that UEFA opened up another CL space this season because 5th wouldnt have been good enough previously.
5th. Let that sink in. 5th as Champions.
I honestly think a parting of ways would be best for everyone - the players, the fans and Arne. If he stays and loses 2 or 3 of first few games it will be toxic, he will be sacked and its another season we can write off.
FSG need to read the room with this one.
btw why couldnt Isak play yesterday? That signing has been an utter cluster fuck for the club. Who wouldve thought thatan injury prone player would be…injury prone.
not a happy lad, but at least we didn’t lose, and we have CL next season. Desperately tryin’ to look for/on the positives after such a hugely disappointing season. Can’t believe the number of clubs that have beaten us at home this season, especially manure, find that wholeheartedly disgusting!
YNWA,
I thought we played some football for the first time in ages. It was easy to watch, sure we didn’t get the result wished for for an end of season however it’s evident we don’t work on combinations.
Our goal from a right back entering the box late at the left post (note he was not free and open like the opposition get from us and midfield runners).
It got messy on the right when Salah went off, Kerkez was more than ok on the left,how I wish Slot had integrated him better using Robbo as an example (he really is a poor manager and I don’t know how he ended up with the job).
The starting line up had purpose played their hearts out. They just haven’t worked the structure for that to be effective.
We did see how poor Szoboszlai is at pressing from the front when Frimpong was trying to do the right thing yet due to Szoboszlai’s angles was forced to do otherwise. Still pretty mute point. It’s our inability to pick up opposition midfielders that hurts us means we end up scrambling which allowed Brentford back in.
No complaints from me, we can not expect a well oiled machine under Slot he obviously doesn’t believe in match preparation. I got the impression this was the players deciding to try and do the right thing (that they should have done over the whole season).
With the squad at the moment, that lineup isnt far from our best for a coherent team.
Wirtz, despite being our best attacking player most likely, is neither playing well nor with the proper setup around him to thrive. We don´t have the movement in front of him and we don´t have midfielders that will actually pick him out and pass through the lines.
That being so, the Dom, Mac and Grav midfield with them all kinda running around is probably the best we could do. Still only got us a 1-1 draw at home against Brentford though.
I just can not get my head around that after what we saw.
It was Jones from right back who opened things out for us. Clearly if we had had Jones or another player arriving late onto the box to give Salah and Rio options we could have scored a lot more.
I accept there is a coaching problem however our current midfield with Macca as DM, Gravenberch doing nonsense and Szoboszlai running around in space just for me far from what we should be doing. What a waste of Macca, why isn’t Jones seen as more important than Gravenberch and FFS Szoboszlai just offers far too little creatively further up pitch. Put Macca further up pitch, Szoboszlai more defensive and Jones in a hybrid role.
Of course the big problem is lack of work on the training pitch, working out combinations. Why are they all in positions they are not imo made for?
I felt really sorry for him having played a record amount of games and nothing to show for it. I hope he stays and help us win something hopefully with a new manager and new recruits.
Brentford needed a goal to secure european football. There are fans pissed off that Hendo seemed more interested in engaging with the liverpool fans, and wasting Brentford’s precious time in the process, than getting off the pitch and allowing the game to restart.
Macca is useless further up though and whilst Szobo runs, he hasnt got any defensive awareness.
We play three midfielders who just run around (or walk around in Mac´s case) and none of them do any specific function we need of them.
Funnily enough, in my view Jones is the only midfielder other than Endo with a clearly defined function. I wouldnt say its attacking the box, although that is welcome time to time. What Jones does in midfield that no other midfielder does, is pass to Wirtz. He passes it forward through the lines so our attackers get on the ball. So simple and yet such a skill lacking from our 3 very highly rated midfielders.
Oh yeah great. So much better that their chances, especially near the end were as clear cut as ours. In the final day when we should ave been busting a gut to give our two departing legends a winning farewell.
Honestly @rab you realty come across as a sly troller sometimes.
How many times this season do you think in Slot’s estimation we’ve been the “better” team and come away with a draw or a loss?
At what point do you start thinking “Hmmm, I can see a pattern here and it’s not a good one”?
I watched the game. We were the better team. I never said we were good, in fact I quite pointedly said we weren’t. But we were the better team quite clearly.
I’m no troll. If you believe that please put me on mute and I’ll do likewise.
Half the issue is in many games we have looked the better team, maybe not in a sexy football style of way, but then we are so lax defensively, lacking nous and an effective defensive shape that we regularly give up good chances.
As for Macca I haven’t a clue why we bought him however he isn’t a defensive player and has the 10 on his back. More importantly as things are he’s better than Gravenberch.
And when that is not acknowledged, only the “we were the better team” bit, then, over time, it looks like a significant detachment from the reality in the ground.
