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Crimson Dynasty
I think part of what makes it tougher and harder to watch now with Slot (at least, for me personally), is where we were coming from.
When Klopp announced he was leaving, we were collectively gutted, and it honestly felt like we'd taken a punch to the gut given where we were in his re-rebuild of his squad with Klopp 2.0.
There was just a lot of promise of great things to come and then out of nowhere he says he doesn't have it in him anymore and had to leave.
And then Slot came and we had that amazing season and the title win - which seemed like what would hav been the natural progression had Klopp not left and we would finally get that Anfield title celebration with the crowd fully there that he deserved and missed the first time before of covid.
And for a moment everything seemed like it was going to be alright again. The promise and bright future were back.
We were just a few tweaks in the transfer market from having a dominant period in English football again (.....or so we thought).
And what a transfer window it was, to further boost those hopes.
And even when we began the season slow but with 5 victories out the gate, it still seemed like we were still on track.
......or so we thought.
The warning signs were there though, but we thought they could get hammered out once the new players got bedded in.
And then it all fell apart, and we've never been able to recover.
It's the fact that we were in such a promising state after winning the title - .......actually,....really when we had nominally wrapped up the title but not officially won it, early last season before our form fell off.
And to come down so hard from that, somehow hurts even more than when Hodgson was here, because let's be honest, we never really had any hopes or expectations on him- at least, I never did.
He was never the right man fort his club, in fact, quite the opposite.
It was just a matter of time before the higher-ups would wise up and show him the door.
Maybe it was the fact that we didn't have any expectations that anything would turn around and we'd have the Benitez days return again, and we just had to grind through it until the was gone.
With Slot, a lot of it is the (now false) hope we all had, and the cosnideration that we've spent all this money bringing in these players, and he'd inherited this great squad and legacy from one of our greatest living managers (living or dead, to be fair), and this is what he's brought us to.
And I know, it's not all on just him - there's plenty of blame to go around in that regard.
But it still hurts, and he doesn't make it any easier, or make himself any more of a sympathetic figure with is constant ridiclous post-match comments and appraisals.
Sick to death of hearing about PSG last year or the "low block" which, apparently even Christchurch FC in New Zealand now also know we can't deal with because the gaffa can't freakin' shut up about how he hasn't figured out how to break it down.
And also the snide-ey subtle digs at fans or the Anfield crowd sometimes.
He just needs to go.
It's getting toxis now, and I want his departure to be when I still have some respect for the man that brought us #20, and not this clueless figure who never seems to know what the hell is going on.
It all boils down to Hodgson started here with low or no credit in the bank at all and him leaving he way he did and with the state we were was ultimately no surprise or sad thing.
Slot had a lot of credit in the bank both from the title win, the squad and (Klopp) legacy he inherited, and the transfer market for the ages.
And somehow we've crapped it all away down the drain.
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