Match Thread: Liverpool v Spurs

[Nineteenx]

What planet are you on? There has been absolutely zero indication that this is the plan.

You'd think if it was, Slot might have tried it once or twice this season...

It is obviously his plan he didn’t go back 3 but didn’t rely on the full backs trying to create a few times Had Wirtz trying to play behind Ekitike and Mo

[jozza800]

Non football people making football decisions in Edwards and Hughes

Sanctioning Slot moving away from the successful model m, absolutely fkn clueless both should go with Slot

Get Jurgen back, he puts the right set up in place and chooses his successor and becomes sporting director

Edwards made a lot of the transfers during Jurgen's tenure and Hughes was a Scottish international. How are they not footballing people?

[Nineteenx]

Hands up who thinks Rio will start on Wednesday?

No

[RedMagic]

Edwards made a lot of the transfers during Jurgen's tenure and Hughes was a Scottish international. How are they not footballing people?

Apparently Klopp and Edwards didn't get on, never mind that Klopp made it clear he wasn't getting what he and we needed in terms of player recruitment. One of those two people is concerned with making their team the best they can possibly be, whilst the other is there mainly to help make his bosses as much money as possible via as little investment as possible.

[ianlfc]

Apparently there was tickets still for sale for today's match this morning on the club website.
The owners will take notice when the fans vote with their feet.

[Nineteenx]

Edwards made a lot of the transfers during Jurgen's tenure and Hughes was a Scottish international. How are they not footballing people?

Edwards was a deal maker not a football man

What kind of footballing ppl sanction spending 470m moving away from a highly successful model all the players were bought for to a completely uncover untried and untested model the players and manager trying to implement it have never played?

That’s a P45 for every one of them for me, total fuckwits

[Nineteenx]

Apparently there was tickets still for sale for today's match this morning on the club website.
The owners will take notice when the fans vote with their feet.

Thry should take notice that Jurgen’s exciting and attractive style of football was a huge factor in increasing the revenue streams and attracting lucrative partners and sponsors and how going from most watched to hard to watch will effect that

[Red October]

Thought we weren't so terrible to begin with. Probably should have played ekitike from the start but can understand resting him. Thought frimpong and rio were good. Wirtz also showing good touches. Problem was maybe playing dom rb. We don't have many options. Gomez maybe but then konate is back in. We seemed to lose it when subs came on

[Lenouis]

I don’t understand the logic of some who relate CL qualification to be a measure of whether Slot should remain at the club.

What’s the point of being in a comp that there’s little if any chance of actually winning?

He’s turned the team’s football style to turgid and simply easy to beat. The players do not look like they’d bust a gut for him. It’s utterly shameful what has occurred this season.

Fuck the CL as a measure, try this one:

End up below Man Utd from what they’ve become over recent seasons and YOU'RE OUT.

[Red October]

I don’t understand the logic of some who relate CL qualification to be a measure of whether Slot should remain at the club.

What’s the point of being in a comp that there’s little if any chance of actually winning?

He’s turned the team’s football style to turgid and simply easy to beat. The players do not look like they’d bust a gut for him. It’s utterly shameful what has occurred this season.

Fuck the CL as a measure, try this one:

End up below Man Utd from what they’ve become over recent seasons and YOU'RE OUT.

Would tend to agree. What's the point in qualifying if it's gonna be the same dreadful stuff next season?

I think slot is very lucky United have been rubbish until recently. Chelsea are very inconsistent. Villa not used to these heights. Even city a shadow of themselves. But for those factors we'd be so far off champions league it'd be embarrassing

[teesred]

Apparently there was tickets still for sale for today's match this morning on the club website.
The owners will take notice when the fans vote with their feet.

Wow. I'd be surprised if that were true, maybe hospitality ones?
There was tickets going just before kick of for 65 quid on the Whatsapp group I'm in.

[KingCanny]

I don’t understand the logic of some who relate CL qualification to be a measure of whether Slot should remain at the club.

What’s the point of being in a comp that there’s little if any chance of actually winning?

He’s turned the team’s football style to turgid and simply easy to beat. The players do not look like they’d bust a gut for him. It’s utterly shameful what has occurred this season.

Fuck the CL as a measure, try this one:

End up below Man Utd from what they’ve become over recent seasons and YOU'RE OUT.

Agreed. Fucking embarrassing that man utd are above us with Carrick in charge ; the mess that club is. That's how low we have fell

[Insidious]

Would tend to agree. What's the point in qualifying if it's gonna be the same dreadful stuff next season?

That's the big question, for sure. I don't think anyone wants more of whatever "this" is.

The questions I have (for the ethos/venting at the wind, not necessarily asking fellow Reds) is will it indeed be the same "dreadful stuff" next season if we make a few of the right acquisitions to better balance the squad and improve player profile in terms of fit?

Rhetorical questions to some extent, but does replacing Macca with a taller, quicker, more physical player in the "Brexit midfield" mould go towards fixing this?

Does bringing in a conservative, defence-first right-back full of energy that is consistently fit go towards fixing this?

Does a rapid, energetic wide-forward (or two) to replace Salah (and/or Gakpo) go towards fixing this?

etc etc

[Nineteenx]

I don’t understand the logic of some who relate CL qualification to be a measure of whether Slot should remain at the club.

What’s the point of being in a comp that there’s little if any chance of actually winning?

He’s turned the team’s football style to turgid and simply easy to beat. The players do not look like they’d bust a gut for him. It’s utterly shameful what has occurred this season.

Fuck the CL as a measure, try this one:

End up below Man Utd from what they’ve become over recent seasons and YOU'RE OUT.

Slot MUST go even if he qualifies what he has done here based on a pipe dream he thought up on change of style, Wirtz as a designated playmaker, lower intensity training, trying to offload players like Robbo and Jones, who he let go and who he brought in

Thank God he didn’t have funds last season

[Nineteenx]

That's the big question, for sure. I don't think anyone wants more of whatever "this" is.

The questions I have (for the ethos/venting at the wind, not necessarily asking fellow Reds) is will it indeed be the same "dreadful stuff" next season if we make a few of the right acquisitions to better balance the squad and improve player profile in terms of fit?

Rhetorical questions to some extent, but does replacing Macca with a taller, quicker, more physical player in the "Brexit midfield" mould go towards fixing this?

Does bringing in a conservative, defence-first right-back full of energy that is consistently fit go towards fixing this?

Does a rapid, energetic wide-forward (or two) to replace Salah (and/or Gakpo) go towards fixing this?

etc etc

The issue is how the transfer budget was spent and who he let go and brought in, it had to be done so we had a balanced squad to compete in all four fronts and if how he proposed to play was fatally flawed and we spent 470m on that to not have a squad to complete he has to go