What we saw vs Liverpool is about the worst managerial performance I've seen from anyone at the club in my lifetime, without a hint of exaggeration. The age old cliche of it could have been a cricket score could be no truer of that game since Liverpool actually lost interest in battering us around anymore, like a cat that's done playing with a mouse it's shredded to within a inch of its life.
Spurs need points and will be eager to compound our misery; Atalanta will feel hard done by to not have come away with a result, but should have more of their actual 1st team fielded at their own ground, and who knows what malady awaits with City if they really decide to go for it.
Things mightn't even be at their nadir with Ole - keeping him in the hotseat when everything is crumbling around him does nobody any favours as its just dragging him over hot coals by now. He is bereft of ideas, a plan and has no idea how to utilise the squad he has, which means some variation of the exact same thing we've seen time and again in his approach to those upcoming games. By now, the buck does not stop with him, but with those who keep him in employment - he is out of his depth and it is a cruel and ceaseless detailing every time we go out there and has been for the majority of the entire season.
When I asked you if you think it could be worse, I am genuinely curious to what you think could go more wrong that what Ole has overseen - the tactics don't work; the line-ups are wrought with flaws; I'm almost 100% certain he is playing unfit players over fit ones; and there is not a hint of cohesive in-game management. I don't believe things plummet to unknown depths with other ex-players at the helm for an interim period because everything Ole is doing is already failing beyond a redeemable point. There is not one aspect I can point to and think of as a positive in what's unfolding, and that's damning. Not a single player nor tactic implemented can I say Ole is making greater than the sum of what it is. At worst, we get more of the same, at best, we get a momentary bump in performance free-styled by a team who are already essentially making it up as the game goes beyond the initial instructions and needs clawing back on instinct.
Klopp could have taken us for at least 9 goals on Sunday if he wanted to. Liverpool could have turned on the afterburners and really driven for more goals once we went down to ten men. It should be beared in mind that the only reasons they didn't is they have other fish to fry and self-preservation in the face of our players starting to lose their heads is the only reason they didn't - absolutely nothing to do with anything we implemented to try and stop their rampage. That's on my mind when I ask if the others could be any worse, and the simple answer is: by now? no, they absolutely couldn't be because there is absolutely nothing we are doing even remotely well at the present time.
On the replacement score, I agree, however, but the two are not mutually exclusive. A caretaker or what have you can still be in place whilst that process goes on. What should be avoided at all costs is breaking the spirit and morale of the players when the season is still salvageable should they not need coaxing out of mental hole - a few more devastating losses could well be the difference between that being the case and not.
feck me. Whenever you think this club can't be anymore clueless, they come out and do things like this. Shambles.