All Aboard the Slot Express

[justme]

Both Nagelsmann and Alonso know how to get the quality out of Wirtz.

Hes a waste of money, hes not worth 20 million never mind an 100 million

[teesred]

You listen to his post match interview and he just points out the obvious things that have been wrong all season, all the things he's done nothing about and not reacted to.
Who the fuck believes he turns this around? There can't be a single fan.
He's surely getting sacked after the last game. How can he not.

[Insidious]

He certainly likes to use the words "clear" and "obvious". If things are so "clear and obvious", why the fuck isn't he fixing those things? It's because he's incapable of fixing them.

He's certainly showing the signs of a Manager that hasn't faced this kind of adversity before.

Some Managers are fair-weather ones and can keep a happy squad ticking along with no issues, but struggle when shit hits the fan.

Others are brilliant at creating the fight and grit needed to stave off relegation but could never maximise a top-level side's fullest potential.

Slot at the minute - and indeed all season really, has looked like a "nothing" of a Manager, which is a bit mad given how well things went at Feyenoord and he comfortable most of last season was. So often the changes in tactics mid-match and the substitutions were bang-on whereas this season he looks absolutely bereft of ideas.

An obvious problem when comparing to previous Slot teams is that we currently don't have pace in wide areas with players that can square someone up one-on-one and take them on. Rio is doing it of late which is a treat (though through skill, not raw pace) but overall we have lacked. I'd be sympathetic to some degree to a Manager that has always set up with pacey wide players being without them - but you absolutely HAVE to be able to find effective alternative solutions and the field in which he grows any tactical ideas is quite clearly barren. The womb in which he births solutions utterly infertile.

It's a shite watch all-round and the opportunity cost of us not acting is pretty scary unless (and I don't see it) he ends up getting the exact player profiles he wants and suddenly makes it work, which just feels so, so ridiculously unlikely right now.

Very troubling. That said, if there is one fix I want to see this Summer and only one, it's sorting out our conditioning. There is no way a squad with this much talent in it should look this weak and this lethargic - no way!

[teesred]

The weak and lethargic part Sid is 100% on him. Managers rarely change their ways. He's not changed a thing this season.