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Slot - could he be in trouble?


Looking at the goals they conceded last night, the players look like they couldn’t give a shit.

After winning the league and even the start of the season they were scoring a few late goals, the team spirit was there, but the last 2 months, something has gone on in the dressing room for me. The players are definitely not putting the graft in for him.

If this continues, and they are knocked out the champions league, I think they’ll pull the trigger.
 
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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.
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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.
Safc98 said:
I’ll tell you why I don’t agree with the grief line. In those first five games they played great for 80% of the game, then had an absolute bomb scare period where they conceded 2 goals. Bournemouth, Newcastle (10men), Atletico. That isn’t grief, that’s horrendous game management and tactical set up.
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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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Safc98 said:
Not trying to belittle or disparage grief, but how long can you use this as a reason? Months? A year? Years? I don’t think it’s a reason to be so far below the level as they currently are.
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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.
 
Keith S30S said:
2x 3 goal defeats on the trot at home is serious shite. The wheels look like they've completely come off. They are still getting plenty of the ball and ample opportunities but they aren't scoring many and look extremely vulnerable at the back.

Big decision coming up for the Liverpool head honchos. They can't afford not to qualify for the Champions League.
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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…
 
Liverpool used to have a brilliant transfer system. Flog their reserves for far too much because of the cache that comes with Liverpool(Brewster, Ibe, Ward etc) and then buy what they needed when they needed (VVD, Allison, Diaz etc). Yet this summer they have gone against what made them a well oiled machine, unnecessary purchases which were made seemingly just because they could and not buying where they need players. Jota's is obviously impacting them but not as much as their outrageous summer business.
 
Fletch said:
Bounce back better not be against us :D .. they will turn it around at some point
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This is my fear.
Interesting comments from Paul Scholes about the players having taken umbrage at Slot’s Ibiza DJ trip towards the end of last season. There may be nothing in it, but that’s definitely where their game started to slip.

I remember thinking they were poor against Newcastle and Burnley but they managed to win both games.
 
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Wansbeck Viking said:
Looking at the goals they conceded last night, the players look like they couldn’t give a shit.

After winning the league and even the start of the season they were scoring a few late goals, the team spirit was there, but the last 2 months, something has gone on in the dressing room for me. The players are definitely not putting the graft in for him.

If this continues, and they are knocked out the champions league, I think they’ll pull the trigger.
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The midfield tracking back was abysmal. They looked like kids at school who are only interested in going forward to try and score.
 
Salah and VVD look washed, the decision to give them bumper contracts doesn’t look so wise now. Their new signings Ekiteke aside look rancid. Couldn’t happen to a better club as I can’t abide that arrogant sod VVD. Not fit to lace Dan Ballard’s boots but he has aura according to the experts. Well lads aura doesn’t win a tackle, getting stuck in does
 
Martinez73 said:
Salah and VVD look washed, the decision to give them bumper contracts doesn’t look so wise now. Their new signings Ekiteke aside look rancid. Couldn’t happen to a better club as I can’t abide that arrogant sod VVD. Not fit to lace Dan Ballard’s boots but he has aura according to the experts. Well lads aura doesn’t win a tackle, getting stuck in does
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He's 34 and appears to have fell off a cliff in the same way Kyle Walker did...

Been a fantastic player over the years.....time has just caught up with him at the top level.
 
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