Match Thread: PSG v Liverpool

[KingCanny]

Klopp would have told the players they could win. Told them we had a chance. Slot set us up to keep the score down & made us feel inferior. Is it any wonder the players seem to lack confidence?

[justme]

Klopp would have told the players they could win. Told them we had a chance. Slot set us up to keep the score down & made us feel inferior. Is it any wonder the players seem to lack confidence?

I think Slot has an impact on Macca as well. The old hes not fit and all that crap. hes played like hes not fit.. And how hes treat Chiesa is pathetic as well, I dunno why he even gets on our bench. If hes not up to it fine. But in 2 years almost.. Hes never had one chance to have more than 1 game in a row and even then, I would say hes started less than 10 matches and most of them have been in the cups..

[fiordearg]

Rodgers post-Suarez team were bad as he had to buy Lambert and Mario Balotelli to replace him while Sturridge entered his injury phase. Stevie was finished. Slot has no excuse

[RedMagic]

I genuinely wouldn't sweat that - no matter what happens to us, we're still a massive draw for 95% of coaches/managers.

Of all the worries we have (and there are a number!) that's not one of the biggest ones to have.

The bigger concern is getting the right man to mould the imbalanced squad and subsequent additions into something coherent, cohesive and entertaining. That'd be a good platform to build upon.

I don't think anyone is looking forward to games and I'd include the players in that. If we can address that, we can create a foundation to build from.

If any of the players don't have the stomach for it, get rid.

The problem with us being a massive draw for 95% of managers is that we are bigger than 99.999% of football clubs/sports teams, and as such we should only be interested in the top 0.001% of managers.

As it stands there should be three obvious candidates to become our next manager, Klopp who isn't going to be tempted to come back unless FSG do what I've previously suggested they do (which they won't), Enrique who won't be leaving PSG, Alonso who will want to manage a team who will be playing in the CL, and maybe someone who could be the next big thing e.g. Fabregas. If we're not in the CL we become less attractive to those managers, especially the last three.

Whilst FSG are our owners and they allow the likes of Edwards and Hughes to have control over transfers both in and out of the club, no manager is going to have the freedom to mould the team as much as they want to. The only person who might be allowed to do that is Klopp, and that's only because I think that amongst other requirements he would want control over transfers if he was to come back to us.

[justme]

Rodgers post-Suarez team were bad as he had to buy Lambert and Mario Balotelli to replace him while Sturridge entered his injury phase. Stevie was finished. Slot has no excuse

you see the amount of money he spent on tripe though?

Benteke 30 million
Clyne 12 milliin (ok but nothing special)
Balotelli 16 million
Moreno 12 million . horrible left back
Lovren 20 million. Okish again but made countless errors and in reality wasn't a success
Markovic 20 million..least said on that the better.
Sakho 15 million. Spent his days trying to defend on the floor.
Aspas 7 million.. Only thing i can remember him doing is crossing the ball over for a corner that led to Chelsea's second

Joe Allen 15 million, slower than a wet weekend in Morcombe
Borini , 10 million. another least said the better.

[jozza800]

I'd take Joe Allen over the current version of Mac Allister any day of the week!

The only thing that gives us any chance whatsoever next week is Anfield...