When we were really good, everyone decided that everything about us was the best in the world, rather than us having a team that made everyone look as good as they could. That is exactly as it should be, from the players right on up, but it's not conclusive.
The management team for the most part can't have been that successful post Liverpool, because they've all agreed to come back, and Michael Edwards was consulting previously, which is where, if you do it right, you make far more money for less work.
The idea that it's managing in aggregate is true, but it's just another way of saying that we didn't want to hire a manager we couldn't control, and we had to punt on a coach that we can instead, as there were no great options. This isn't some new idea, it's just preparing for a more likely failure. Slot is almost certainly going to be worse at klopp at getting more out of the players he has, which is just as important as getting the team getting in the transfers right, which nobody does all the time.
The inarguable thing that this team did well before was negotiations. Yay.
