F365 does love a Liverpool pile in, doesn’t it? I know Slot’s team has been abysmal for pretty much the entire season but I doubt that the club has leaked or briefed this. There will be a review at the end of the season and not before.
Salah’s post is very damning and a clear attack on Slot. While I agree with the message, I don’t think I agree with the timing or think it helps anything with an important game coming up. Slot would not be out of line if he chose to bench Mo in his final game for the club. Multiple players have “liked” Salah’s post. What message are they trying to send? What a shit show we currently are. Speaking of shit shows, Xabi Alonso is now the manager of Chelsea
Surely Slot's done here after all this. The timing of Salah's post could absolutely not have been worse. The last thing we needed right before a critically important last match, what on earth was he thinking? btw not fussed about Alonso to Chelsea, we had plenty of chances to reel him in and passed.
Thought the same myself. The players need to put all of this aside get the job done. Play for the shirt .
I just don't have a problem with it. The manager cannot set the team up to save his life. He's making star players look like chumps. Agreed that they need to do more themselves, but if there's no on field leadership at the level, that was there before then he's got to do something to implement or create something they can buy into. but his slow boring and mindless play has just worn the team down top to bottom.
Ok, no Alonso so who is out there? Hoeness? He's a huge gamble. Nagelsmann? Pass. Like I said, just give it to Stevie G and see what happens. I haven't felt this depressed about LFC's fortune since Rafa's last season & departure.
And there goes Salah's farewell game. One of the greatest LFC players of our lifetime and he probably will go out with a whimper. I don't blame him for speaking truth but maybe delay it a week?
I would have been interested in seeing Xabi as manager. Everything I've read suggests he's a smart guy and a student of the game. I don't think he has the same stubborness/arrogance of Slot. He did really well to win the German league with Bayer Leverkusen. He's also played at the highest level with some of the biggest clubs and managers in the world. I wouldn't be expecting miracles from him but it would be interesting to see what he could do.
I keep coming back to his well-known admiration (which may be way too mild a word) of the Pep Guardiola ticky-tacky football method. He has been very clear that he thinks it's the way the game should be played. Last season he came in and made adjustments to have the team "rest on the ball" whenever game conditions allowed it, and he put a lid on the relentless pressing that Klopp ingrained into the team. That allowed the players to run less, and obviously that was very successful. This season he doubled down and instructed the team to employ a "pass the opposition to death" strategy. This resulted in the slow repetitive passing and the "wait however long it takes for an opening to show up" approach. And he’s stuck with it no matter what. To state the bleeding obvious, this has failed spectacularly and has resulted in perplexing and frustrating the hell out of supporters – and quite possibly a lot of the players. His recent comments about “wait till next season” do 2 things imo – they tell us he’s gonna stick to his guns. Not the first manager to do that. But on top of that they are a not-at-all subtle criticism of the squad he has: a squad that is made up of seasoned top-level internationals. The idea that the squad is the reason his ideas haven’t worked this year is nonsense. Unless those comments are a roundabout way of saying that replacements for Mo and (possibly) Mac will help click things into place. This is a dreadful phase the club is going through. And I can’t see it getting a lot better in a hurry. God knows what FSG are planning as far as keeping / replacing him. We might know in a week or two, or not until the end of 2026, or next summer.
This certainly seems to indicate he's lost the dressing room. Between this and the fan upheaval it increasingly forces the club's hand. I have no idea who's out there who could come in and turn this all around quickly as a manager. We are pretty badly broken at the moment.
Yep, I think we're at something of a crossroads this summer and our transfer biz plus the choice of coach will determine our future for the next few years. No matter what happens I cant see us challenging for the title any time soon.Its likely the trend towards younger players will continue and more old heads will leave but I see no reason that we cant be a solid top four club next season if Hughes/Edwards get it right.
I think Mo is a fantastic player and a great guy, but sometimes when you aren’t as good as you were it affects your ego a little bit Arne Slot Responds to Mohamed Salah Instagram Post | The Kopite View Wonderful.
Since losing last year’s League Cup final on March 16, Liverpool have played 47 league matches and averaged 1.6 points per game. Therefore, Slot’s season have been playing like a team that gets 60 points per season for over 60 percent of his reign. Liverpool Stats Prove They're Mid-Table; Top 5 is a Red Herring As I've said before, we have been shyte for quite a while now. Over a year as it turns out.
This may be, but admiration of a system and having the players and especially the coaching staff to convert that admiration into effect are two very different things. We have good players. Whether they are suited to that style of play is another thing - and that isn’t even addressing whether you and your coaching staff can carry out your plan. My guess is that the emergency meeting is because they see the whole thing spiraling out of control at the moment. The fact that you have nearly the whole first team effectively calling for the coach’s head by “liking” Salah’s text probably means Slot is gone. I just don’t see how he recovers from what is effectively a public vote of no confidence. While I admire Xabi as a former player, and he clearly did a good job with Bayern Leverkusen, I’m not thinking we’ve massively missed the boat by not hiring him as a replacement to Slot. If he is demanding sole discretion regarding player hires/trades, then I’m frankly not interested. That seems to me to be taking a gamble not only on a new manager, but also gambling on your recruitment strategy going forward if you need to. ManU are still suffering from following this strategy and despite their better form in the latter half of this season still are saddled with a bunch of players that no new coach wants to use. I’d rather have a manager come in with a similar type of agreement as Klopp had when he came in. Let’s keep the recruitment and squad development a longer term strategy… There are probably still a lot of good, highly talented managers who would be pleased to take on the job. We don’t have to necessarily go after the brightest bauble in the gift shop.
Wow, Slot decided to make it a food fight…. My guess is this seals the deal with ushering him off as manager (I sincerely hope so. What a lame ass response to a provocation). As manager, or as anyone in a leadership position, responding like this to a provocation does nothing to enhance your standing. You can call the person onto the carpet and rail at them as much as you deem fit, but you do it behind closed doors - and only if you have legitimate grounds. But most of the time, the better and more productive response is to allow the heat and anger to wash over, and then only reply when you’ve assessed the situation and figured out the best response is. The key is to respond only in a way that benefits the larger project you are trying to lead. Maybe that means embracing the criticism and thanking the person for stepping up and saying something. Maybe that means freezing that player out the next time they fail to perform adequately. Maybe it means just ignoring the provocation entirely and carrying on as usual. But what you don’t ever do is engage and reciprocate with the name calling. That just demeans you in the eyes of everyone else you are trying to lead.