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Slot - could he be in trouble?


Biffo The Bear said:
Kerkez - Acclimatising to life at a massive club takes time.
Wirtz - Like many foreign players it will take him a season to fully adjust to the pace of the PL
Frimpong - As above.
Isak - No pre season, injured and out of form. Form being temporary should come good.
Ekitike - Been decent.
I can see why he bought who he did, although buying 2 strikers was a bid odd. What I don’t understand is throwing them all in at once. Fixed what wasn’t really broken.
Either that….. or he is just a shit manager who got lucky with Klippity’s team. Now it is becoming his team his weakness as a manager is coming to the fore.

Not against Newcastle. I didn’t see any of the others but at Newcastle they were second best and, for long periods, a long way second best against 10 men.
I like to think I am honest enough to admit when the better team wins (Marseille the other night were deserved winners in my book) however the better team lost that day.
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Yeah you’re right on the Newcastle game. The other games they could have been 3 or 4 up.
Turnip from the Tip said:
I don’t know they answer that (if there even is an answer) but I’d say the the benefit of what’s happening now, to when expected anything like a title challenge from Liverpool this season would be expecting a miracle.

Personally, as I said above I think you give them this season as a total free hit. Finish top 5 is they can and come back next season.
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Yeah I’d nit expect them to be better than Arsenal, but not losing 0-3 and 1-4 at home to Forest and PSV. Not being so tactically wide open either.
Augustus Winthrop said:
Iv'e never understood the chanting of his name at every match, it is like they revel in grief.

First home game of the season and that should have been that.

It was tragic but it was self inflicted, apologies if that sounds harsh.
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I agree with all of the above tbh.
 
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DonaldDownTheWing said:
What happened to Jota can explain why everyone who played with him is struggling, but not why everyone they’ve signed has been awful.


The kind of opportunity we have been good at making the most of lately. We capitalised on West Ham, Forest & Villa’s woes. Hopefully we can do it again.
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Just said on the Isak thread that it must be really difficult and weird for the new signings coming in. They're one of the biggest clubs in the world, most players dream of playing for them, especially the foreign ones. You're buzzing to fulfil your dream but everyone else is grieving for someone you didn't know. You make your debut at Anfield with a late win but your star player and talisman Salah is crying on the pitch at the end because the fans are singing Jota's name - how do you console him when the rest of the dressing room is going through the same but you're not? Do the rest of the squad start to resent you if they think you're not working as hard as Jota did. It's a weird situation. In hindsight they'd have been better off not signing anyone and allowing the squad to get through it together.
 
Turnip from the Tip said:
They can’t you’re right but I suppose only people behind the scenes will know what the reasons for this are.

Jota is surely a big factor and I just wonder had this horrible thing happened to a lower profile club from mid table and the following season they just couldn’t perform, found themselves stuck at the bottom of the table and looking like being relegated - what would the narrative be there?

I suspect they would become everyone’s ’second team’ with everyone rooting for them to stay up. I very much doubt anybody would be calling into question the future of the manager.

But this is Liverpool…
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Its not cos its Liverpool.

Its cos a team won the PL by 10 points then spent 450M in the summer ..... and are now losing consistently. Would be the same if it were Man City, Arsenal or whoever. It's not cos it's Liverpool
 
Squad wise Ekete replaced Dias and effectively isak has took jota position. Both of which are a downgrade, that's weakened them, both wany to play through the middle , woth only ekete being able to play on the left, it's completely wrecked the forwards line fluidity. The isak signing wasn't needed, a younger player who can operate across the front line would have been better.
They only got wortz because tgey promised him a central role, should have been told we play you wjere you want, if you don't like it join bayern.
Kerkez on paper was the right signing, might still work put.
Guehi, was tge MUST signing for them, tgey pissed about.
Which team that are champions starts the season with 4 new signings starting, all should have had to earn their place
 
robbied2 said:
Squad wise Ekete replaced Dias and effectively isak has took jota position. Both of which are a downgrade, that's weakened them, both wany to play through the middle , woth only ekete being able to play on the left, it's completely wrecked the forwards line fluidity. The isak signing wasn't needed, a younger player who can operate across the front line would have been better.
They only got wortz because tgey promised him a central role, should have been told we play you wjere you want, if you don't like it join bayern.
Kerkez on paper was the right signing, might still work put.
Guehi, was tge MUST signing for them, tgey pissed about.
Which team that are champions starts the season with 4 new signings starting, all should have had to earn their place
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Agree with a lot of that. Isak being a downgrade on Jota though…. Really?
 
Biffo The Bear said:
Agree with a lot of that. Isak being a downgrade on Jota though…. Really?
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Absolutely, I'm not just saying that for obvious reasons and I can also see why you disagree, just the positions he could play, plus I'd say a more natural finisher nd footballer
 
Lo Ursem said:
It is 90% all about the players. McMisery had the right players at Southampton - not at Sunderland.
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Mcamenemy was to blame. At The Dell he signed players who could run the show - manage it for him on the pitch: Mills, Rodrigues, Keegan, Ball... they were all leaders.
At Roker, he brought in the likes of Kennedy, Burley, Swindlehurst, Gates etc... they all knew the top flight, but not Division Two. And there wasn't a leader among them.
 
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