LFC’s decision-makers remain fully supportive of Arne Slot. But the next fortnight is huge in the context of the Dutchman’s reign. Man City, PSG, Fulham, PSG, Everton. If they kick on, unrest will ease. If they wilt, the noise will be hard to ignore
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Also in the article For all the speculation linking Xabi Alonso with Liverpool, internally they believe that those rumours are based on false assumptions, such as the idea that he was their first pick before they turned to Slot.
Fucking seriously? What are they seeing?
I hope he turns it around. But I also hope the owners are not willing to engage further in a sunk cost fallacy.
I just don’t see a turn around. We’ve been waiting for one since the end of last year. Same tactics and performances.
I think my parents don’t even have such faith in me
Liverpool would make a big mistake if they don’t take the opportunity to get Alonso.
Ridiculous, Slot might be the most protected manager in world football. Let’s take City, PSG out of the equation is this manager even good enough to beat Marco Silva at Anfield? We could lose all of those games, how does this warrant any kind of support? Delusional puff pieces that is far drawn from reality.
I’ll be depressed and ashamed if we miss out on Alonso over these owners and their obsession with Slot.
This is the most damming pr statement so far
Basically if we crash out of the fa cup and UCL, then he’s gone. Makes sense
We will always publicly back the manager, Liverpool has never done public warnings etc like other clubs.
It‘s just ridiculous how these pieces get put out for Slot constantly. I‘d love it if he could turn it around but there are zero signs of that happening. The team has been playing the same shit kind of football for a year now, what does the club see, like seriously?
I mean, we all support him in the sense that the ideal scenario is that Slot wins every game forever and ever for the rest of time, but it’s about being able to see the forest for the trees. Slot has offered very little in the past 12 months to suggest he’s capable of turning this around.
PR speak. We would never make such an enormous decision based off how he does in 3 games. The board is backing him until the end of the season and a review will be done. If they take this season as a whole the data simply doesnt lie, we have regressed massively and shown no signs of improvement. Bar a CL miracle, he has to be gone. The risk of going into next season and nothing improving, firing him in October, is an absolute worst case scenario.
They also wont let him go into his final year with no extension. And if they give him an extension after this season, they need to be gone themselves.
Guess it all comes down to Szobo and getting freekicks in the right area then.
I think all lot of the issue here is we simply can’t revolutionise whatever training plans the coaching team has in place in such a short period of time. So the team is always going to look sluggish and get outrun. The slow style of play we have also makes us not just play bad but look terrible. Even when we win we suck lol. I think it’s gone on too long.
We will likely lose to Man City, PSG (on aggregate, if not in both legs), and Everton. After this, we will keep hearing that “LFC’s decision-makers remain fully supportive of Arne Slot.”
I can take losing to a big European team in the champions league, those games are always so tight. Its the loses and awful performances against bottom half of the league teams that gets me.
What are they seeing that makes them want to keep him? We haven’t been consistent for over a year now, we wilted in our title defence, we will be lucky to get UCL next season and Anfield has booed multiple times. He won us a league and im grateful for that, but if we don’t change something then we won’t be in contention again for a while whilst City and Arsenal strengthen and we will be off it even more.
Swear they been saying “the next x amount of fixtures is pivotal” for the last 3 months
Even if we get results the next few games, there’s nothing to suggest Slot is the right manager for us long term. He’s shown that he needs near perfect conditions to be functional. His tactics aren’t adaptable. His fitness and conditioning is failing. His man management is poor. The mentality he instills in the squad is poor. He can’t use his squad and adapt to adversity.
Swear that guy says the same thing every couple of weeks.
They didn’t sack him during the worst football I’ve seen since hodgson, they aren’t sacking him now.
The public backing is standard for the club, but you’re right, this run of games feels like a final exam. We’ve been stuck in the same cycle for months, so seeing a genuine tactical response is the only thing that will quiet the noise. Missing out on Alonso will look even worse if this slide continues.
Good god, it’s been important weeks since January but somehow a draw sways their pessimism.
The good management story is being eroded by complacency and indecision. They are banking on fans following regardless but honestly the football is rancid and slot show very little hope ito of turning it around.
I’ve been reading this kind of article since October lmaooooo
I read this as unless he does very well in the CL and wins the FA, he’s gone
Should have gone after PSV
How “fully supportive” can they be if the results of 2 weeks could shake that support? That’s not any kind of job security. If they’re fully supportive they wouldn’t worry about the noise from the supporters.
I don’t think the unrest does ease even if we win every single one of those. Still no trophies, still battling for top 4. It’s not going to get better
Can’t see how slot turn this around in the next few games
Wilt they or won’t they
They also said this about Brendan Rogers about 2 weeks before they sacked him
12 months of shit preformances but sure lets give him another 5 games eh
“If he wins he’s safe, if he doesn’t he isn’t” sounds at odds at “we’re fully supportive of him” lol
I think this whole situation is a lot more two way street than people think.
Slot will be going into the last year of his contract at the end of the season. I think even if we make top 4 and win the CL, a lot of damage has been done with the fanbase and the product on the pitch has been deteriorating for over a year, so I think the club will likely still see offering him an extension as a big risk in case we do start the new season badly and we have to sack him in October.
If we were to get top four and win something, Slot would probably be expecting that renewal offer to come, and if the club are reluctant to offer him that he may want to walk. I can definitely see this going down the Mutual Agreement path rather than a straight sacking.
Friendly reminder to the people in the high rooms that Xabi is sitting at home on his ass. Get him in, ffs!