All Aboard the Slot Express

[RedMagic]

Carragher was recently shilling for FSG and said that they should keep Slot. Steve Nicol was championing Slot for quite a while, but in recent weeks even he has said that Slot needs to be dispensed with.

You may say that those players liking Salah's post says a lot about them, but rather than saying anything bad about them, it says the exact opposite. Don't forget that a load of those players will still be at the club next season. Liking Salah's post nails their colours to the mast and could seriously negatively affect their relationship with Slot and the club (but not most fans) in general next season.

[justme]

On top that it has been reported that Alonso will be the Chelsea 'manager', not a 'head coach', and as such he will have control of transfers.

I see

[Crimson Dynasty]

Carragher was recently shilling for FSG and said that they should keep Slot. Steve Nicol was championing Slot for quite a while, but in recent weeks even he has said that Slot needs to be dispensed with.

You may say that those players liking Salah's post says a lot about them, but rather than saying anything bad about them, it says the exact opposite. Don't forget that a load of those players will still be at the club next season. Liking Salah's post nails their colours to the mast and could seriously negatively affect their relationship with Slot and the club (but not most fans) in general next season.

I said it says a lot about them in that it speaks positively of them.
I should have been more clear on that. That's my bad.

A lot of them - particularly the new ones who came this year (Frimpong, Ekitike, Kerkez, Giovanni) didn't have a dog in this fight, and had nothing to lose in not commenting either way, and can't even speak to the heavy metal football Mo is talking about as they never played in that system or under Klopp*.

But they liked his post anyway, and that to me speaks well of them.
I should have been more clear on that. That's my bad.


For me the ones that I'm side-eyeing are the ones who did NOT like the post and who DID play that football and know - just like Mo has laid it out - just how far we've fallen.

I'm talking the Virgils, the Gakpos, the Grav's, the Konate's .....

Now the first three, I might be willing to give them a bit of grace being that they're Dutch like Slot and probably might have felt that liking it was throwing their countryman under the bus, but still....,.,.


(* and by the way, it doesn't mean I'm slamming the likes of Isak, Wirtz or Mamar for not liking it either as the most prominent new players that didn't like it. Like I said, new players who joined this season have no dog in this fight and therefore get no judgment from me for refusing to take a stand one way or another. Which is why I think it speaks really positively for the ones that did anyway.)

[Insidious]

I'd like to think some of them haven't liked the post because they don't need to check social media every 5 minutes, but that's pretty naive of me

[RedMagic]

@Crimson Dynasty

Thanks for the clarrification. Some players just lack integrity or the balls to stick their head above the parapet. Any player who cares about what we do and tries to do something about it automatically goes up in my estimation.

[Ravo19]

Salah right or wrong,i dont think slots reply is a good look and doesnt help him,slot said " 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 — which is understandable. Next season with fresh mentalities and new players, we’ll see in the end who was right in this situation.”

[miller0863]

Jesus wept get him gone

[justme]

Hes not going. just because Craig from Anfield agenda gets whispers from good sources. doesn't mean they are legit or correct..
I think Slot has been guaranteed 3 seasons if he gets the goal of champions league. And its looking likely to be the case.

[teesred]

Hes not going. just because Craig from Anfield agenda gets whispers from good sources. doesn't mean they are legit or correct..
I think Slot has been guaranteed 3 seasons if he gets the goal of champions league. And its looking likely to be the case.

I'm sceptical too but that guy is going to look like a wally if this turns out not to be true. He's absolutely confident on the video he's put up. Never really watched much of him but a couple of lads I know say he's usually decent for information.
We'll see soon enough.

[RedMagic]

I'm sceptical too but that guy is going to look like a wally if this turns out not to be true. He's absolutely confident on the video he's put up. Never really watched much of him but a couple of lads I know say he's usually decent for information.
We'll see soon enough.

He's a hypocritical sellout. I'd take any information that comes from him with a large pinch of salt.

[miller0863]

Well I did say most would probably not take him seriously, just putting it out there.

I haven’t known him say something as if fact turn out to be total bollox before though. He went early with us bringing in Wirtz and Isak coming in for example and both were true

We’ll see tho.

[justme]

The thing is to me, is the comments from Slot of a new start and all that. why should a team be motivated when their manager only has 9 months left on his contract at the start of the season? Its an excuse to down tools and its something the players seem to be well capable of doing. Considering the lack of effort in the last several months.
Its a right cock up and the likes of Hughes and Edwards should be ashamed of their input into the demise of our club right now

[miller0863]

I’m almost as concerned about Hughes overseeing our summer window then immediately leaving for Saudi.

[justme]

Yep,they seem to have more control than the owners. You can understand why Jurgen had issues with them

[Crimson Dynasty]

Yep,they seem to have more control than the owners. You can understand why Jurgen had issues with them

We seem to have the opposite (good) problem that most clubs in this scenario, where our owners are hands-off when it comes to the football side in the running of the club and defer heavily to the director of football and the "football people" (i.e. Edwards and Hughes) giving them great deference and leeway.

I say opposite (and good) because most clubs deal with the meddling owners that don't know nowt about the game but want to dip their grabby hands in everything, and it would nominally be a "good" problem to have, where our owners are not that.....except in this situation.

Where the Football people are clearly incompetent and screwing things up big time.


I've come to hate both Hughes and Edwards as much as I hate Slot - more even, because I now realize that Slot is just a symptom of their incompetence.
And I now totally get why Klopp chose retirement rather than working under them again.

Klopp had an issue (or issues) with them.
And now you hear Mo also voicing concerns about the direction of the club.

You'd hope that someone higher up is at least listening and is able to do something, but sadly even most former players who hear speaking up, it usually in defense of the regime, or doing the usual excuse-making gaslighting that makes people think they're on the take.

Only the few here and there like Jermain Penant, who's very vocally open against what Slot is doing to this club and very openly states that a change is needed. Stevie (G) I feel tends to measure his words too much for my liking (probably because he was trying to not ruing his chances at a future managerial chance), but even with him occasionally you'll hear the frustration the rest of us are feeling, when it slips out after losses.

Yeah, Penant is the only former player now who's take I trust.
The rest of them (the Nicol's, The Carra's, The Barnes', the lot...) can all go do one with their whole "....we need to give Slot another season" nonsense, as far as I'm concerned.

How much more failure and incompetence do we have to be subjected to?