I thought this was a lovely gesture by Galatasaray fans to Osihmen. He recently lost his mum and he was feeling so sad. It lifted him. Their fans are amazing.
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A large segment of their fans are notioriously awful to the point where they will attack you even when not drunk. People speak with loathing of Everton fans, Manchester United fans and Arsenal fans; but in reality they are rather normal.
Galatasaray is not allowed to travel with fans for a reason.
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I am referring to their tribute to their player’s mum who passed away.
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Sorry 
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It is okay Magnus. Have a good evening.
So, are we Slot out or in ?
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Hehe, I suppose I am out.
I wish Arne Slot the very best, but I don’t think it can go on, unfortunately.
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If we are out of the Champions League and F.A cup and we don’t get Champions League football next season, I think he has to go.
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Assuming Slot manages to gee up the team to win Gala at Anfield, what is highly likely to face him and the team next is his nightmare team, PSG.
And PSG just kabonked Chelsea hard…
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I think two out of three will do it, but I don’t see much to convince me it won’t be three out of three.
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We’re not getting the result, we play without conviction, we are a mess defending, we are inefficient attacking. We spent hundreds of millions, we are boring and no sign of improvement. Convince me why he should stay. I see absolutely no reason. He won the league, playing Klopps team and Klopp football. I will always appreciate that. Time is up.
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Then proceeded to dismantle Klopp’s team and erase Klopp’s football from the club.
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Or worse, if we somehow get to the SF, we may see Kane - Diaz - Olise each bagging 3 goals against us over 2 legs.
He is not here to dismantle playing squads. This isn’t Football Manager, where Slot gets given 400m and is told to crack on.
There is a recruitment and sporting development process led by Richard Hughes. Slot will feed into that, but he is not the decision maker (it’s been suggested he was opposed to the sale of Diaz).
The players bought have all looked good. We haven’t bought a dud, including Isak who got injured just as he was starting to perform.
It’s the players remaing from Klopp’s team that are the problem, and ironically the biggest black mark against Slot. It’s Mac Allister, Virgil, Konate, Salah, Gakpo and Gravenberch.
If we’d signed half a new team and they’d all looked shit, Slot would be a lot more secure now than he is - because he doesn’t do the recruitment. It’s the fact that it’s the players he should know, that’s he has been coaching now for almost two years, and in some cases is persisting in playing despite it being screaming obvious that they should be dropped (Like Macca, Salah and Gakpo), that is why everyone is running out of patience with him.
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We sold loads of good squad players and a top player because Slot preferred a smaller squad and refused to rotate. He also started moving away from Klopp football style around and after the PSG loss.
At the same time, we bought new signings that did not fit into the Klopp football style at all - the signings were clearly intended for Slot’s new style. Signing 2 new starting CFs, a new No. 10, 0 new CDM and 0 new wingers for a 4-3-3 team is pure stupidity. The new players forced us to change to a new football style that does not suit the old ones.
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Nail. Head.
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I think Salah should be coming on sixty. He has lost a yard of pace but his fitness is still there. Whatever he is on 10mins he is still that player on 80mins. It’s no good starting him, and taking him off on sixty when his full back is starting to tire. We need it the other way round.
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Obviously there were poor decisions made re squad turnover, but we don’t know the reasons for this. I high doubt it’s just because Slot wanted a small squad
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A report like that does go to show how much value it is to be in the champions league for the players. Obviously the clubs make mega money from qualifying anyway, but that’s a load of extra pressure onto the players.
So if it’s 5m total and split between say 20 squad players on that evening, then everyone gets 250K whether they make it onto the field or not.
Imagine being told before you start work tomorrow that if you don’t lose and instead win, then 250K goes into the bank account. Mind blown, massive incentives, especially for players in the Turkish league who may not be accustomed to feeling rewarded.
And that could be a reason why Liverpool players sometimes don’t always turn up for work in mojo mode? Are they actually motivated by money incentives anymore? Is the pressure of success to add more trophies too much for them right now? They are already the most loaded players that probably have ever existed, bar the obvious exceptions Ronaldo and Messi.
If Liverpool fall short this season and don’t meet minimum expectations, then I would expect whoever is the manager next season to be starting the youth players in August and dangle some carrots out there for incentive 
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That misunderstands his comments about a “small” squad. What he has said is that a “full squad” requires you to have tough conversations with senior players, often full internationals, to tell them they are not even going to make the bench for the upcoming game and that is not good for the player and its not good for the squad to have players like that hanging around. So that is an argument about not needing a squad that has the full component of 25 senior players. But few good sides have that because what Slot is saying is pretty universally agreed upon.
More important in Slot’s comments about last season’s squad was his acknowledgement that he didnt rotate enough and if we were going to continue to have success with the demands of english football he would need to get more games and minutes out of a bigger core than he used in the first season. That meant some of our moves were not driven by giving him a small squad, but replacing players he didn’t see he could find a use for with ones he would want to use more often so that we could distribute the load better over a larger number of players.
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