Are you ready to pull the lever?

[Farkmaster]

Maybe it makes me a cunt myself but I've never really got this need to revere a manager like they're Jesus or something. I loved Klopp but the thing I liked least about him was the schmaltz and overt displays of virtue like taking an obviously disingenuous amount of blame etc. I mean if it's effective man management then I'm all for it but as a style it's just a bit bullshitty for me.

Each to their own I suppose.

Ha. I love klopp.

Slot... I don't get the hate, but I haven't liked his attitude at times, years especially slobbering over PSG last year, or his more recent comments. That said, is that his attitude, or his style of football and even more so, his not winning the games? People always will find a reason to hate a losing manager.

He's smart not to try to do a Klopp tribute act, and just be a boring coach mostly, but I just kind of don't have any sense of him at all, other than that I don't respect how basic his vacationing is.

 

[peterhague]

As a leader, I’d rather be Klopp than Slot. When things go wrong I take the blame. When it’s good it’s my team below me.

Yeah I get that. My point would just be that that's good man management. It's not necessarily a matter of being a cunt or not.

I agree somewhat on the Quansah thing, which I said at the time was OTT. People defending it because he was Dutch ffs, like that helps. And some of the worst treatment of Chiesa has pissed me off - leaving him out of the CL squad was pretty terrible imo. Felt gratuitous.

 

[localny]

The whole point of having a dof and a head coach and not a manager, is the fact that we didn't build specifically for this manager, surely.

In theory, yes, but in reality no, IMHO. If you want time to plan and research a new manager for proper succession planning, yes.

But for an emergency market, where there is NOT many options out there, for managers that match and who play in a style akin to the Klopp/Slot way and are not a panicked decision.