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It feels like the inevitable will happen with Slot, which sucks but you can't watch every game and see the same things that I've been repeating and everyone else has and not realise that something is clearly wrong. Isak had one touch in the second half. Im sorry, but that is a sackable offense on its own. Shame it will be an o.g as Wirtz, as usually was the best player on the pitch for us.

Edit: One thing that hasn't been mentioned during Slots tenure for me as it has gone on is the lack of basic fitness of the players under his spell. His obsession with controlling the pace during the season has resulted in a lack of intensity in the fitness of the players and it shows during game. One thing you can't do in the PL.
 
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This will be short as I have a ton of work to hit early.

Yesterdays admin-

Title Defence Countdown:
7 wins down/ 20 to go.
22 points down/ 67 to go.

Current PL unbeaten run:
P 2 W 1 D 1 F 3 A 1 CS: 1

Fair play to Sunderland. They came for what they got. A point. Anything else would have been a major bonus for them. Rightly as they are a promoted side. At the champions. They slowed the game and strangled the life out of it with 6/7 deep all game and time waisting the life out of it. Of which the referee fell for every trick in the book. Never seen a ‘keeper literally flip himself in the air and over off the ground to eat up the clock after taking a cross!

L’pool was another hard watch.

Particularly first half where the set-up was all wrong. Sound away from home playing like that. Like we did West Ham. But you have to be more front foot at Anfield. That first-half was dire. And the passing all game was woeful in the main. With the movement, particularly from Isak, leaving a lot to be desired. But then we are trying to climb out of the deepest hole possible we’ve slumped into over the past few months. So the second half response you can take positives from. They never stopped grafting for a manager who was like a man possessed the touchline encouraging them. The one thing that has been destroying them of late, their broken mentality when hitting any sort of adversity, was slowly re-found as they came back from a goal down. That in itself is a massive step in the right direction. And the last 15, there was only one side trying to win that game.

People have to appreciate it’s going to take time to climb back to where we should be. And they’ll be some utter dross performances along the way. But we didn’t get beat again. And ticked off battling back from behind. Baby steps. But that’s where we are and you have to start somewhere.

Follow the last two up by beating Leeds now and 7 out of 9 this week would be a superb return from where we were going into it.

Kudos to Sunderland fans too for loudly applauding on 20 when the Jota song went. Really appreciated that lads. Thank you.

Up the Reds!
 
dilakh2 said:
Can't be a fraud if ya won the league in your first season. Have we got worse under him the more he has stepped out of Klopps shadow. Yes, but two things can also be true.
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Yeah won it riding off the wave of a previous manager hardly having to do anything bar a few tweaks here and there. Hes being more exposed the more time he has to mould his squad and imprint his tactics/style of play etc. only down hill from here imo.
 
Theatre of Dreams83 said:
Yeah won it riding off the wave of a previous manager hardly having to do anything bar a few tweaks here and there. Hes being more exposed the more time he has to mould his squad and imprint his tactics/style of play etc. only down hill from here imo.
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why are you poking the bear
 
Honestly, as gutting as it is, it is at least an improvement in the sense we actually created chances and actually scored goals. We were in full control until Konate once again makes a brain dead decision
 
Theatre of Dreams83 said:
Yeah won it riding off the wave of a previous manager hardly having to do anything bar a few tweaks here and there. Hes being more exposed the more time he has to mould his squad and imprint his tactics/style of play etc. only down hill from here imo.
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Like I said you dont win a league title riding the coat-tails of the previous manager as good as Klopp was. The tweaks he made were more than good enough, however he has lost his way with mitigating circumstances that no one could have foreseen this summer. The whole club is hurting and it's not helped by Slots insistence on doing the same thing over and over again. I only agree with your last point but I personally think the roads run for him and the club would've acted sooner if viable options were available.
 
Theatre of Dreams83 said:
Yeah won it riding off the wave of a previous manager hardly having to do anything bar a few tweaks here and there. Hes being more exposed the more time he has to mould his squad and imprint his tactics/style of play etc. only down hill from here imo.
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Well done you for just totally dissing Klopp who couldn’t win it the previous 4 seasons with the same squad.

Any more Pal winning managers you’d like to slight?
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
I’ll write tomorrow when I’ve slept on it but we win that game comfortably without Konate playing. The draw is solely on him and nobody else.

Serious liability who undoes everything that man.
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No need to sleep on it. You can copy and paste konate disasterclass followed by a mental collapse due to low confidence like you've mentioned a million times, with a dash of a manager who doesn't know how to arrest any form of free fall in the side game wise or tactics wise. Same time again next week?
 
Full statement from Salah interview:

It's a frustrating result for us as a team, because we expect to win a match like this.

We managed to score two goals early on, and the game was going our way, but I think we conceded silly goals—goals that we were conceding even when I was playing.

I'm not using what's happened to defend myself; because we were conceding those goals even with me on the pitch.

I was sitting on the bench for 90 minutes. I think it's the first time in my career for three times in a row, but I'm very frustrated.

I'm very, very frustrated. I've given so much to this club.

Everyone can see that over the years, especially in the last season.

But today I'm sitting on the bench… I don't know why.

It feels like the club is throwing me under the bus; that's how I feel.

I think it's very clear that someone wants to put all the blame on me.

The club promised me a lot of things in the summer, and none of those promises have been fulfilled so far.

So I can say they're keeping that promise somewhere else.

I had a really good relationship with the manager...

Right now, after this issue, there's no relationship at all.

I don't know the reason, but maybe there's someone who doesn't want me at the club.

I'll love Liverpool forever, my kids will love Liverpool forever.

I love Liverpool so much and I'll support Liverpool forever.

I called my mom yesterday… she didn't know I wouldn't be starting today, but I did.

I told her: Come to the Brighton match, it doesn't matter if I play or not, I'll enjoy it.

We'll see what happens. In my mind, I'll enjoy it anyway, because I don't know what's going to happen.

The match will be at Anfield, so it'll be my farewell before I go to the Africa Cup of Nations.

I don't know why I'm in this situation now.

Any other club would protect their player.

It seems like there's someone who wants to make me out to be the problem, but simply put, I'm not the problem.

I've given so much to this club; I deserve more respect.

And I shouldn't have to fight every day for my place, because I've earned it.

People will say: You're not bigger than the club; well, I'm not bigger than anyone; I just earned my place.

That's the thing for me.

Wow. When it rains it pours eh?
 
dilakh2 said:
And I shouldn't have to fight every day for my place, because I've earned it.
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I agree with a lot of what he has said, but I completely disagree with this. You have to earn you place every single week.
The moment you think you "deserve" a spot, your motivation drops and you end up in this situation.
 
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