Slot To Be Fired?

[Insidious]

We finished 25 points behind Arsenal, and 21 points ahead of West Ham.

The 25 off Arsenal is the annoying thing for me - and not because it's them or any of that - simply the disparity between us and top spot.

We finished 30 points adrift in our final season under Houllier and that prompted us to bite the bullet and go after Rafa.

We did take another jump up during his tenure (good thing we won the Champion's League in 04/05 as the League season wasn't great...) so it certainly proved to be the right call.

As our 25/26 season progressed I'd probably have been begrudgingly accepting of being 15 points adrift or so, as 5 fixtures worth of results is something you'd feel you might be able to work on, with some players further settled by the time 26/27 comes around and another dip into the market to supplement whatever your "plan" is meant to look like.

But to finish 25 points off.....that's practically a quarter-season worth of points. That's a chasm - further compounded by the current "nothing" that is our style of play this season.

If we are sticking with Slot (a worry, frankly) and the powers that be are "all in" on making this work, then we need a couple of top wide players and a defensive mid if we want to begin to eat into that sort of deficit as we look so limited for cutting edge.

[Crimson Dynasty]

...and Utd made a 53 point jump on us.
Absolutely disgraceful. I know they didn't have European football but 53 points is outrageous and just shows how bad we have been.
The fucking Egg was asked to sum up the season in one word, he said "injury". He's so self absorbed and unaware he genuinely doesn't think any of it is on him.

I mean,.....even "injury" is on him.

Wasn't it his own (physio)staff and training methods that were playing a role in how fit and available a lot of those players were?

Including his team selections - such as the number of times early in the season when he'd insist on starting and playing a clearly unfit and 'not-quite-ready-for-full-game-time', Isak or even Macca, who was likewise clearly not fit enough to be starting games this season - over the healthier (and on-form) Ekitike, or giving some playing time to some of those bench players that he was adamant to keep ignoring like young Trey Nyoni - who could have spelled some time for him to give those injured or unfit starters more time to get healthier.

Or the fact that he'd consantly just keep playing key players with poor rotation patterns until those players form fell off a cliff (like Grav in the middle).

He had as much a role to play in our injury crisis this season, despite him blurting it out like that as an excuse as if it just fell out of thin air and happened to poor old him.

So sick of him and his twaddle.

It infuriates me to no end to imagine that those on the Board think this clown is the way forward for this club in the coming season.
Another season wasted - no matter when they decide to sack him.