All Aboard the Slot Express

[justme]

Liverpool boss Arne Slot is set to stay at the club, despite Ajax being interested in the Dutchman. (Mirror)

[Red October]

It looks like there's been some falling out.

VVD first half v PSV looked like he was trying to get Slot sacked.

Salah got dropped after this game, then had his pr moment shortly thereafter. Seen as a player push against Slot.

Then MacAs pr piece, keeping things to himself, maybe it's teamwork.

We also had Klopp, pop in with some return to footy talk also, and all of the above before new years.

That's some amount of pr pressure imo for Slot to have faced over the season.

Even as Salah & Robbo depart with well earned send offs.
There's swipes around standards, and this with the Isak out news broken via the scum/rag from somewhere.

Slots carried himself fairly well given the pressure.
If he gets only 2 seasons at LFC winning number 20 and falling to CL football the next year, he can walk away proud of his job. Not been an easy season this year.

Alonso would be the right fella for me. He's had the experience of drama at Madrid and knows he has a dressing room to sort out. Worked with Wirtz & Frimpong before.

LFC & Madrid had similar failings this year. Application. Dressing rooms and egos.
What a waste of a season.

Yes it is a lot to carry and many times we as fans can be very harsh on the manager. He's had no luck with injuries this season and probably a lot of the change in personnel wasn't down to him. We don't know what's going on behind the scenes. I'd imagine we were under pressure to sell any players who had value so that we could reinvest. It seems like we've tried to do too much in one window and that's not Slot's fault either.

However, having said all that, he's still the manager and has to get a tune out of the players we have. What's been disappointing is that we don't seem to have a clear idea of how we want to play.

If you look at the players we have, there's definitely enough there to get a decent team together even despite the injuries this season. He dropped Ekitike when he was our best player. He persisted with Kerkez when he was struggling. He keeps playing Szob at RB when he's our best midfielder. He keeps playing MacAllister. He keeps playing Gakpo on the wing. Understandably he didn't want to drop Salah but maybe he could have gently eased him out. Playing him every second game or something to manage the ego. I wouldn't blame him for the whole Salah thing personally. Salah has a big ego and it was always to going to be tricky dropping him. What he might have done was move him more centrally and use him more as a 10. Maybe stick Wirtz out on the right if he must.