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Are you ready to pull the lever?

Should Slot get sacked?

  • Yes, immediately if possible.

  • No, but he has until the end of the year to turn it around.

  • No, winning the league bought him enough time to see out the season.

  • No way.

  • Other, elaborate...


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Not immediately. But he shouldn't have a free roll on the rest of the season either.

We need to qualify for Champions League. And we need to look not completely clueless each and every game.

He's got a few more matches to turn it around, in performances even if not quite results (or, frankly, even the reverse). If not, then the knives need to come out.

I'm not optimistic about his chances but we're not quite there yet.
 
What an absolutely ludicrous thread.

Sacking a manger in the middle of a rebuild. After winning the league?

We’ve officially become blue fume.

Someone ping me when the hysteria is over
 
What an absolutely ludicrous thread.

Sacking a manger in the middle of a rebuild. After winning the league?

We’ve officially become blue fume.

Someone ping me when the hysteria is over

Dude. Wake up. No manager, anywhere, ever, would survive much longer of this sort of form.

We just bought a fuck ton of players and require what looked like a very safe bet of CL qualification for that not to cause us some financial distress. It should be an easy bet too, because while our team had challenges, we were very competitive, and we were allowed to spend.

SO you've got the owners who paid for new upper level management to come in who oversaw the purchase of those players, and then you've got an end product that will hurt their pocket books.

So someone is going to get sacked if this continues, as would be the case anywhere. Here though, it's even more simple. How do we fix this will be the question. There's two guys who are quite close who will be pointing their fingers at the bald guy. What will he have to say to defend himself. I won a league? Past performance is not indicative of future results will come the reply.

Theres no hysteria here. We've been shit for a long while now. We are getting worse, and worse and worse. If you don't see how desperate the situation is, slot does. He just forfeited a game at anfield because of it.
 
We treaded water once with Brendan and lucked into Klopp. Perhaps the only logical answer to keeping him in the hotseat is that there's no outstanding candidate to take over. Come summer, his passivity in the face of an abysmal run of form should mean his position be under consideration regardless.
 
Casted my vote for others (decision to stick or twist after the next 3 matches - there's an international break after the Man City match).

With Villa (unbeaten in last 6 league matches), Real Madrid and Man City up next, and given our current form, it's hard to be optimistic about results. The bare minimum we need to see is a clear improvement in performance—we need Slot to show he has a plan and that he hasn't lost the dressing room.


Out of curiosity, did a check on past title winning managers' sackings:

Chelsea have sacked manager Jose Mourinho seven months after he led them to the Premier League title.

The 52-year-old Portuguese had been in his second spell at the club, taking charge in June 2013.

Chelsea finished eight points clear last season and won the League Cup, but have lost nine of their 16 league games so far and are 16th in the table, one point above the relegation places.

Manager Claudio Ranieri has been sacked by Leicester City, nine months after leading them to the Premier League title.

The Foxes are one point above the relegation zone with 13 matches left.

Ranieri, 65, guided the Foxes to the title despite them being rated 5,000-1 shots at the start of the campaign.

Chelsea have sacked manager Antonio Conte after two years in charge.

The 48-year-old Italian, who returned to pre-season training this week, had one year remaining on his contract.

Conte won the Premier League in his first season and the FA Cup in May, but the team finished fifth in the league last season, missing out on Champions League qualification.

Roberto Mancini has been sacked as Manchester City manager a year to the day since winning the Premier League.

In July 2012, he signed a new five-year deal with the club.

But this term, City are a distant second to champions Manchester United (11 points behind), went out of the Champions League in the group stages and lost the FA Cup final to Wigan.

Chelsea have sacked manager Carlo Ancelotti after he ended his second season at the club without a trophy.

They missed out in the Premier League as Manchester United clinched their 19th top-flight title last week, further compounded by exits in the Champions League, FA Cup and League Cup during the season.

The Blues, who were Premier League and FA Cup holders at the start of the campaign, finished nine points behind United and only ahead of third-placed Manchester City on goal difference.
 
For me Slot is still the same manager who won us the league - the thing that changed is the squad and also the league playing style (more physical, more set pieces, etc). I am willing to give Slot time to turn this around - but my controversial opinion is if there is no significant improvement in form then Salah must be forced to leave for Saudi in January.

The manager has been put in an impossible position of trying to fit a defensively non-contributing undroppable star player alonside two big signings in Wirtz and Isak who are both hardly defensive monsters. It doesn’t work as a system and exposes our defence. Removing a manager will do nothing to solve this problem - the only way out of this is to solve the actual issue.
 
I said other and it's the same thinking as binny, but I'd be looking now.

I don't understand the idea that we can't sack him in a rebuild. For one thing, he's not the person undertaking the personnel decisions, and neither will be his replacement. More importantly though, the whole problem is that he doesn't seem to be able to do the rebuild. He seemed much better dealing with what someone else built.

All he is doing right now is demolition.
 
For me Slot is still the same manager who won us the league - the thing that changed is the squad and also the league playing style (more physical, more set pieces, etc). I am willing to give Slot time to turn this around - but my controversial opinion is if there is no significant improvement in form then Salah must be forced to leave for Saudi in January.

The manager has been put in an impossible position of trying to fit a defensively non-contributing undroppable star player alonside two big signings in Wirtz and Isak who are both hardly defensive monsters. It doesn’t work as a system and exposes our defence. Removing a manager will do nothing to solve this problem - the only way out of this is to solve the actual issue.

He can drop Salah and deal with the consequences, and he should have.
 
I said other and it's the same thinking as binny, but I'd be looking now.

I don't understand the idea that we can't sack him in a rebuild. For one thing, he's not the person undertaking the personnel decisions, and neither will be his replacement. More importantly though, the whole problem is that he doesn't seem to be able to do the rebuild. He seemed much better dealing with what someone else built.

All he is doing right now is demolition.
We can only look at what he's done in the past, which was a remarkable rebuild of his team in Holland to win the league when he lost tons of the team's top players. And last season, where as Liverpool manager he won the league.
He still has a chance of turning it around. I voted for him to see out the season, but sure, if we're stuck mid table or worse with our better players back from injury, he should be replaced.
 
For me Slot is still the same manager who won us the league - the thing that changed is the squad and also the league playing style (more physical, more set pieces, etc). I am willing to give Slot time to turn this around - but my controversial opinion is if there is no significant improvement in form then Salah must be forced to leave for Saudi in January.

The manager has been put in an impossible position of trying to fit a defensively non-contributing undroppable star player alonside two big signings in Wirtz and Isak who are both hardly defensive monsters. It doesn’t work as a system and exposes our defence. Removing a manager will do nothing to solve this problem - the only way out of this is to solve the actual issue.
I don't think it's that controversial to think that this season! But I'd only want that to happen if we can get a top quality guy to replace him in Jan (Wirtz is not the answer), and I doubt we have one that's available.
 
For me Slot is still the same manager who won us the league - the thing that changed is the squad and also the league playing style (more physical, more set pieces, etc). I am willing to give Slot time to turn this around - but my controversial opinion is if there is no significant improvement in form then Salah must be forced to leave for Saudi in January.

The manager has been put in an impossible position of trying to fit a defensively non-contributing undroppable star player alonside two big signings in Wirtz and Isak who are both hardly defensive monsters. It doesn’t work as a system and exposes our defence. Removing a manager will do nothing to solve this problem - the only way out of this is to solve the actual issue.

I voted other, and rurik wrote this for me to help me elaborate.
 
I'd probably give him until Christmas, if he figures out what a defensive midfielder is he could be a decent manger overall.

But in all honesty while writing that I think I've already gone off him.
 
It’s not going to get better and the next guy deserves the Jan window
 
I voted other. I’d sack the fucking gobshite DOF and spreadsheet wankers too.

If he can’t drop Salah get out the fucking club. Grow some fucking balls. What’s that juice head little bald cunt going to do? Go cry to his mates? What mates does he have?

He won’t be sacked now. It’ll be the international break.
 
If Klopp wanted to return then even have sacked Slott in the summer to make it happen. That continues to apply.

In other circumstances, and we get some sort of muddling improvement then I think Slot gets the season, but we need top 5.

Another 4 or 5 defeat on the bounce and it's curtains.
 
Loyalty means we should stick by him longer than the point where we actually suspect it's over. I'm not sure what that point that is but right now we're still in ungrateful little bitch territory.

I don't really mind chucking the cup game, Klopp chucked the FA Cup virtually every season. But it probably wasn't the wisest move given the context.
 
Next 3 games are make or break for him.

Even if we lost the 3 (highly possible), there needs to be some clear patterns of play and some clear indication of improvement

If there isn't, then he's fair game
 
Depends how we play next league game, if we continue to play abysmally, yes fire him - 5 league games on the bounce without any signs of improvement should mean he has lost the dressing room
 
I voted other, I don't think you can guarantee him to the end of the season, and I think now is too early. I'm less concerned about results and even our position in the league than I am about his ability to get the team functioning coherently and a majority of our players playing to their ability. If he doesn't sort that, or show signs of beginning to sort that in the next month or two, he should be in serious trouble.
 
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