Job security - arne
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he is being considered for the Indi national job according to some online rag. probably made up shit, but I wouldn't surprised he gets the chop to make away for Hettinger's return
That's David Blunkett, everything disappears for him.
Lol, convenient scape goat?
sod all
Hahaha, as though that sacrifice will appease the gods.
treating this as the main official Slot job status page
View: https://x.com/indykaila/status/1996361391553311226
View: https://x.com/indykaila/status/1996361391553311226
why would they ask gakpo of all people?
If we were to believe this account, Slot should be clearing out his desk today. Last week they said that he had to win against West Ham and Sunderland to keep his job.
They have no sources at the club and know nothing.
We can live in hope
I think them announcing possible signings before the likes of Ornstein and Romano gave their claims credence. They might be talking bollocks for all I know but @Woland 's comment from his source more or less said the same as IndyKaila. His task was to win 2 games, he won only one, lets see if there is an emergency meeting, if there is, he is gone!
At this point, what are Hughes and Edwards hoping/expecting to see from us to be sure that Slot's still viable as a manager, because I can't see anything?
New manager interviews:
Candidate - It's a real privilege to be here, I'm very excited to have this opportunity.
Edwards / Hughes - It's great to have you here, thanks for your time.
Candidate - So how much will I have to spend in January to sort out this shit-show?
E/H - Errmm, can we get back to you on that?
Candidate - Because I'll need some defensive signings at the very least...
E/H - We might be able to bring Harvey back from Villa....
If they can't find someone who backs their judgment then we're struggling.
Candidate - It's a real privilege to be here, I'm very excited to have this opportunity.
Edwards / Hughes - It's great to have you here, thanks for your time.
Candidate - So how much will I have to spend in January to sort out this shit-show?
E/H - Errmm, can we get back to you on that?
Candidate - Because I'll need some defensive signings at the very least...
E/H - We might be able to bring Harvey back from Villa....
If they can't find someone who backs their judgment then we're struggling.
True, but will they? Going back to employing a manager, especially if they employ a hard nut like Luis Enrique or even Glasner, will transfer some of their authority back to the new manager's office. One of the reasons my criticism of Slot has been muted is that I've wondered all along whether either the individual signings or making so many of them all at one go would have been entirely his idea.
Exactly, and I suspect that the reason we got Slot, is because they club knew we needed an overhaul and they didn't want to put the trust in a new manager to do it, so they created the role to allow them to work that way, and by creating the role we cornered ourselves a bit over the type of candidate we could identify. The money is largely spent now and the experiment has failed, so change it to suit.
Yes, I have wondered that too, and it seems noone really knows.
My assumption is that he must have had more say on transfers than some assume. I don't think that there are many managers (or head coaches or whatever) who would accept the situation where players just come and go and they are expected to just get on with it. There are even fewer who would go along with that and continue to go along with that when things are going badly and they are getting all the blame.
I dunno. Maybe they think he's a good communicator. Maybe he's Slot's mate and they brought him for balance. Like I say I'm only saying what I was told, and I believe the dude. I mean last year he got everything right months in advance.
Some of the things Klopp said about Gakpo soon after Gakpo arrived indicated that, playing ability aside, he'd made an impression in terms of maturity and calmness. Given also that Virgil and Szobo are both international captains, it would seem that group was picked very much for personality reasons.
I also recall Virgil being asked about Slot when Slot's name was first mooted as a possible choice for the role, and thinking that Virgil's reaction was pretty lukewarm. Maybe we're about to find out if that's the case.
I also recall Virgil being asked about Slot when Slot's name was first mooted as a possible choice for the role, and thinking that Virgil's reaction was pretty lukewarm. Maybe we're about to find out if that's the case.
I am swinging back and forth like a sack of shit in a storm.
One day - this isn't good, he's lost the dressing room and clearly can't motivate them and doesn't have a plan.
Next day - oh yeah, their mate died, so who knows what way their heads are twisted. And you can say this has been going on before side before summer, but you can write that off as party season once the league was done.
One day - this isn't good, he's lost the dressing room and clearly can't motivate them and doesn't have a plan.
Next day - oh yeah, their mate died, so who knows what way their heads are twisted. And you can say this has been going on before side before summer, but you can write that off as party season once the league was done.
I'd say 80% weighed in with this was a 8,9 or 10 outta 10 transfer window as the season started.
I´m not swinging back and forth very much, in that it feels like a chore, and only a chore, to watch us, and it has for some time.
I dread when we are playing, and that´s not right. It´s not even that I can´t handle us losing, I absolutely can. It´s that the interest I get out of a team that is being built is watching it be built, and I can deal with ups and downs. These are down and downs. I want to see how a smart manager is trying to make it work, how is he adapting what he thought he´d do, to what the reality is. I like seeing new players show that they are going to be the face of a new team. None of that is happening. This team is a poisonous environment right now.
Right now the best thing I could say of how we are attempting to attack is that we could possibly one day score an amazing goal where gravy breaks the lines, then wirtz breaks the lines, then it's a through ball to Isak. Bing bang boom. That's a tough goal to score. How are we going to routinely score the other couple goals we'll need every game? What do the bread and butter goals look like. I haven't got a clue.
Slot said of this last game that it takes a moment of magic or set pieces to break it open. Initially that enraged me, mostly because Sunderland weren´t good at all, and we saw how they COULD be pressed, which is how we would have broken open that game in times past. Under Klopp we may have just recycled the ball and made 30 chances and just ground them down. I was also thinking that every single player we bought was designed to break this sort of game open, which didn't help with the rage. But the plan was to rely on them to just do something? That's not very encouraging messaging from the guy that is supposed to be making an attack work.
Then I thought about it a little more, with the more adult part of my brain that's very accustomed to digesting failure. I thought, well, it kindof also is the case. A lot of these games with very low blocks and 5 at the back DO come down to somebody doing something a bit special. They do often come down to just, really good players being too good for their one v one. They get the first goal, then you are away.
So, what of those players and the 1v1s? Well, Gakpo got hooked explictly because he wasn't good enough in these situations. Then Salah came on and was arguably worse, in a far more attacking half, where he did see the ball a bit. Then I thought about Isak and how we aren't playing through him at all, but was wondering why the fuck that's excusable at all, to have someone who has zero involvement in a game that isn't going our way. Then I thought about every single one of our attackers, all brought in this year, and thought, who 1 v 1 do I think is going to do anything. The answer is Tekkers who showed form earlier this season and then was benched quite a bit and has gone off the boil.
I find watching a team come together pretty fascinating, and we´ve largely watched the same type of football for quite some time. I was really ready for a change.
The problem is that I am watching something decay still, rather than watching something get built. We look poorly coached, and our players just don't have much of any balls in attack. Salah had 100% the right approach when coming on, except he isn't very good at football anymore.
I dread when we are playing, and that´s not right. It´s not even that I can´t handle us losing, I absolutely can. It´s that the interest I get out of a team that is being built is watching it be built, and I can deal with ups and downs. These are down and downs. I want to see how a smart manager is trying to make it work, how is he adapting what he thought he´d do, to what the reality is. I like seeing new players show that they are going to be the face of a new team. None of that is happening. This team is a poisonous environment right now.
Right now the best thing I could say of how we are attempting to attack is that we could possibly one day score an amazing goal where gravy breaks the lines, then wirtz breaks the lines, then it's a through ball to Isak. Bing bang boom. That's a tough goal to score. How are we going to routinely score the other couple goals we'll need every game? What do the bread and butter goals look like. I haven't got a clue.
Slot said of this last game that it takes a moment of magic or set pieces to break it open. Initially that enraged me, mostly because Sunderland weren´t good at all, and we saw how they COULD be pressed, which is how we would have broken open that game in times past. Under Klopp we may have just recycled the ball and made 30 chances and just ground them down. I was also thinking that every single player we bought was designed to break this sort of game open, which didn't help with the rage. But the plan was to rely on them to just do something? That's not very encouraging messaging from the guy that is supposed to be making an attack work.
Then I thought about it a little more, with the more adult part of my brain that's very accustomed to digesting failure. I thought, well, it kindof also is the case. A lot of these games with very low blocks and 5 at the back DO come down to somebody doing something a bit special. They do often come down to just, really good players being too good for their one v one. They get the first goal, then you are away.
So, what of those players and the 1v1s? Well, Gakpo got hooked explictly because he wasn't good enough in these situations. Then Salah came on and was arguably worse, in a far more attacking half, where he did see the ball a bit. Then I thought about Isak and how we aren't playing through him at all, but was wondering why the fuck that's excusable at all, to have someone who has zero involvement in a game that isn't going our way. Then I thought about every single one of our attackers, all brought in this year, and thought, who 1 v 1 do I think is going to do anything. The answer is Tekkers who showed form earlier this season and then was benched quite a bit and has gone off the boil.
I find watching a team come together pretty fascinating, and we´ve largely watched the same type of football for quite some time. I was really ready for a change.
The problem is that I am watching something decay still, rather than watching something get built. We look poorly coached, and our players just don't have much of any balls in attack. Salah had 100% the right approach when coming on, except he isn't very good at football anymore.
