I wonder whether the situation with his family in France has been weighing on him. Possibly, that has even had an influence on his contract situation?
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We started with Macca in the deepest role and it looked horrible. I was really worried until we started heavily dominating. This allowed Macca to get further forward.
We look a real jumble at times. Often meaning only effort keeps us afloat.
Second half they dominated us a lot and we couldn’t get the ball out. We have Gravenberch and Macca in the same line as the defence meaning there’s no pressure on their midfield and noone to go to when we do win the ball.
I don’t understand why we don’t just hoof the ball out regroup and wait for the opportunity to counter attack.
Conditions were horrible which meant our technical advantage was taken away. So we had to grind it out which we did. In that light it was a good win for us.
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That worried me enormously at the time
Yep. Defensive shape, or even an attacking one was missing a lot of the time.
There were times in that game and I couldn’t make out our shape/ formation at all, and there was this huge gaping hole in the middle of the park. Alternatively, there were occasions that looked like we had 4 players in one tiny area and the rest of the pitch was a gaping hole.
Happy we ground out the win as you say but I’ll admit I was hoping for better, at least in terms of performance and organisation.
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After seeing this clip, I decided to watch the entire post match press conference to see what led him to answer in such a way. The question was simple: Are you impressed with Konate’s performance. But W.T.A.F?! Why did he have to use a player as example on the team struggle on maintaining control for 90+ minutes. Until that last question, Slot was doing fine with praising the players earlier: Endo, on his bravely even after the injury, and examples of few others played well…then this bombshell of an answer that is utterly not needed.
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Why is it a bombshell? I really don’t understand what Slot has done wrong. If anything he’s sticking up for Konate, and pointing out that his shite moments have been limited to a bad decision in a single moment, but it gets amplified because it costs us points.
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The question was about Konate playing well and his impression on his performance in this match against Sunderland…Slot should just stick with that. Slot does not need to singling out Konate and used his past performance as an example of a team that played 89 minutes then with a lapse causing the team to lose the match. If Slot wants to say that the team had/has issues playing full 90+ minutes, then say the team, and not singling out an individual’s past performance.
This is just like a teacher saying in front of a class that an individual in the class, naming name, that he/she got a D.
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I think that’s just nit-picking. Another example of Slot not being able to say anything without someone picking it apart.
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That is gaslighting.
It has nothing to pick apart Slot’s comment as his added word salad response is so unnecessary. Furthermore, it is a very poor analogy from him.
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It’s an example what we hear being framed by what we already think. I bet if he’d said those exact comments last seasons, nobody would have batted an eyelid.
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It’s called read the room and stop alienating the supporters.
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I think he will be more devastated to not being able to play for Japan in the WC.
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It was the same last year but it was Quansah who had all the bad luck and half the time it wasn’t his mistake, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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I have no issue with this, Ibou knows it has been a problem of his and it doesn’t stop at Ibou, Virg too would know that he has been a culprit of switching off or being complacent.
Any top pro or even amateur should know that it is the lapses that cost you or the team.
If players want praise they should also be able to take the criticism.
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We will never see eye to eye on this. Personally, I do not believe such example is warranted when the team confidence is still on the fragile side. Encouragement at time like this is more important to the said player and teammates, instead of using a player as a whipping boy, whom has played significantly better in the past 2 matches, and on top of that just lost a father.
TBH, if he need to use a whipping boy (which is not unexpected between supporters, but not coming from the coach publicly anyways), why not Gakpo, eh?
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So he is basically saying that Konate has been good but made mistakes in moments, and he has been really unlucky because those mistakes have cost the team points. But all players make mistakes and it’s unfair to single out Ibou.
What an absolute cunt. Really thrown Ibou under the the bus there, Arne. 
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Wow.
I think he should have just said, yes Ibou played well today no need to mention anything else from the season.
People can critique press conferences and interviews without being disingenuous to Arne, its opinion.
Your constant defending him against perceived attacks isn’t always fair.
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Your know where I am on this. I have no problem with criticism. I’ve had my own.
It’s when criticism just becomes criticism for the sake of criticism that I have a problem.
I have no interest in defending him. But I do want to have an honest conversation about the merits of him staying or going, and that conversation is impossible if half the forum are falling over themselves to throw shit at him over nothing.
To be fair it’s completely reasonable to say ‘he didn’t need to go there’.
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Ok
My belief is that he shouldn’t have mentioned mistakes that Konate made earlier in the season. He simply should have acknowledged the performance that night.
I am making that observation without throwing shit at the manager. I am very much undecided on whether I want him here next season. Insofar as I want the team competing and playing good football, and that might see him hold on to his job. Missing out on CL next season? I would want him gone.
Thats, I imagine fairly universal. There are polar opinions as well, but its all fair enough.
You do defend the manager @Mascot , and once again thats fair enough. But others can critique performance and media stuff with a degree of objectivity . I also think that is reasonable.
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