I thought last season he looked tactically decent in terms of being able to switch systems/players when things weren't working but now that he has more of 'his' players in the side and Salah doesn't look as imperious, they've been very poor.
Arne Slot | Liverpool manager | Bald watch
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Might be a consequence of the transfer overkill. Last season they relied on Salah to win the games for them, now that Salah starts declining, the team might be thinking 'let the 150m boys do it'..
Can we have a new title ? Arne Slop the baldy Dutch fraud ?
He has no idea what his best team is any more. Last season he knew 8 or 9/11 every week.
Now he’s got four fullbacks who all look shakey, he’s stuck with Konate, he’s trying to shape the midfield with a 10 instead of an 8 and he doesn’t know what to do with his front three.
I’d stick with Frimpong and Kerkez (they need to be played into form), play Szobozslai and Gravenberch then Wirtz as a 10 (we have to persist with him or he has no chance of improving), then put Ekitike left with Isak up top and I guess persist with Salah? The latter looks like he’s in a decline like Robertson’s last season. Very ineffective.
Is this Slot’s first Liverpool crisis? It’s taken nearly 18 months if so but hope and pray we can compile it in a fortnights time!
I still believe if Salah is off for them, they are very beatable…. he’s just been that massive for them.
I still believe if Salah is off for them, they are very beatable…. he’s just been that massive for them.
"Sack Watch", of course
Yeah, I'd probably agree with you. I think Frimpong and Kerkez still have plenty of time in their career but I'm still really surprised you went for both for a back 4 when they're both so poor defensively.
This forum has such a weird obsession with baldness
Someone said it well, that they're having their rebuild season a year later than everyone expected them to!
When Klopp went everyone thought they'd drop off and then Slot cruises in and wins every game for months!
If he was our manager just imagine the media circus.
Lost TAA, who shoddy defending aside, did help the team a lot with both his set pieces and crossing but also building play from the back.
Aside from that, a lot of high priced signings in at once, after years of more stable building.
Fat fraud, thenThis forum has such a weird obsession with baldness
Wouldn't happen right after winning the title of course, but if this run continues, there has to be some scrutiny of how the signings have unbalanced things.
Yeah let’s see how smug he is now things are going wrong.
I’m so done with Bradley. The definition of an average slogger. He’ll end up at Fulham or Bournemouth. No better than Nico Williams (maybe worse).
Slot needs to back his signings and play them until we start seeing a bit of form. We’ve been good in patches but it’s mostly been uncontrolled basketball or we’ve been second best.
I'm actually furious that it hasn't been added to the thread title yet. Furious!
He got lucky last season, Saint Pep was off form due to domestic issues and the gooners were typical gooners
Yes the league totally opened up for them, but I'm not convinced either of those 2 scenarios are much improved.
Let's hope so though!
I think TAA leaving ties into Salah's poor form to start this season
Yeah that was another instance of Bradley playing himself out of the team.
He's good for a 2nd choice right back (injury problems aside) but proving less and less likely to be capable of making the step up as the weeks go on.
I really hope this turns into a proper crisis.
Manager slowly losing his grip on the players as well as his own sanity. Expensive flops. Fans turning on the manager and the players. The works.
Someone else deserves a taste.
Manager slowly losing his grip on the players as well as his own sanity. Expensive flops. Fans turning on the manager and the players. The works.
Someone else deserves a taste.
I'd sack him and I'm not joking. There should be serious criticism. Not just for him, but for the recruitment department too. Made a complete mess of the summer window. Doesn't get mentioned as much as other areas in the side, but they didn't replace Alexander-Arnold.
Well, it's in our hands, I guess.
I am slowing becoming a Palace fan, hopefully they do a Lester
I bet you were once LightLord before your dark times.
I see TAA mentioned a lot but I think Diaz leaving is equally a big hit, especially with Salah playing so poorly.
I am certainly enjoying the in depth Redknapp and Sturridge assessment of it all, for probably the first time ever!
Has he had a meltdown?
Yeah agreed. A more hardworking and better player than Gakpo.
Such a shame it didn't happen straight away last season, but we'll take any glimmer of it this year.
It will. Their fans are too stupid to turn on the manager, they will keep signing their stupid walk on nursery rhyme and think that saves them.
So is there any chance we get a result at Anfield?
Also, the amount of criticism we got for not signing a keeper sooner, yet this lot were pissing around all summer while Guehi was sitting there. They made a token gesture as deadline day was approaching, meanwhile, they throw goals away for fun.
I was until 2013.
Not sure why they spent so much on two attackers when they could have kept Diaz and spent on defense instead
If, if they capitulate this season after spending all that money, it’ll be the greatest collapse in English football history. In fact, who on the continent would have had a worse fall?
Hopefully Wirtz continues to underwhelm. I didn't see the point in signing Isak, when they already had Ekitike. Just completely unnecessary. Gakpo is a decent player, but he's squad player level. They could have invested in that position or as you say, kept Diaz. They lost Alexander-Arnold and failed to replace him. Frimpong isn't even a right-back. He's very overrated and it says something when Szoboszlai looks their best option there. Then there is Konate, whist messing around all summer in their pursuit of Guehi. Just a really poor, ill-thought-out window.
They’re playing in a similar way to Klopps heavy metal football. Last season, Slot really steadied the ship for them. Everyone was talking about how his football was a lot calmer and pretty much everyone thought, yep this guy knows what he’s doing. He wins the league. But little did we know, the recruitment department probably kept tabs on all of Klopp’s type of players and signed them. Frimpong, Kerkez, Wirtz, Isak, Ekitike. These are heavy metal type players. It’s too chaotic and I hope they continue to lose games. This is a real crisis for them. Salah is no more.