Miscellaneous - liverpool thread

[keniget]

People need to fucking chill out, get off their phones etc.

What a load of fucking bollocks.

Hmmm.

 

[peterhague]

Do we even know that the players dislike Slot? Feels like that is another social media, body language expert/rumor mill.

Exactly. Complete shite.

I mean, it could be true. But it could also be the opposite of the truth. So yeah, nonsense.

 

[peterhague]

Hmmm.

You "forgot" to quote the clarifying sentence about Tiktok.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

 

[localny]

Do we even know that the players dislike Slot? Feels like that is another social media, body language expert/rumor mill.

I don’t - just really a read of things that could be wrong from Sboz, Jones, qunasah, Harv, - nothing concrete.

 

[keniget]

You "forgot" to quote the clarifying sentence about Tiktok.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

You didn't mean just TikTok, so doesn't matter. Anyways, you seem quite angry.

 

[Mamma Mia]

I know this isn't a remotely original thought, but the reaction from fans and social media generally to a bad half season has really made me believe that a lot of people have been quite damaged by the internet/social media etc.

The lack of patience and this apparently driving need for sensational takes - I just don't think you'd have got that 20 years ago. And I see a few others have noticed it as well, specifically in this context. I'm not a big fan of his but Martin Samuel was on the TV on Sunday talking about exactly this - booing at half-time etc. How there's no such thing as just "a bad season" anymore. I think there's a lot of truth to that.

I think Ballbag was on Twitter recently too, sharing the same sentiment. People need to fucking chill out, get off their phones etc. Or at least get off fucking Tiktok.

It doesn't surprise me from the media and social media, it's been getting progressively worse for ages and is expected. I just don't consume any of it, so I don't care.

Since last season, it's been creeping more and more into SCM. That I do care about. This was our refuge.

 

[Squiggles]

My concern about Slot is really he is disliked by players and rubs them up the wrong way. Kind of like Rafa but maybe not as cold.

I am concerned this will lead to a loss of players and making it harder to hattract others.

And yeah, he likes intensity and possession so why can’t you attack like your predecessor? Why did you not replace Diaz? Why are you so bad on forward transitions?

Oh you won the league? That was nice. What about now?

Plenty of reports that Slot wanted Diaz to stay/offered a new deal, and I strongly suspect wanted a replacement, was told to use Ngumoha, and has generally refused to do so out of principle. Whether that's right or wrong, we can't hold Slot accountable for all transfer activity. They've stuck him as Head Coach for a reason.

 

[Frogfish]

I totally get that. We do not need to be reactive and that in the social media age, the reactions are over the top and some of the earlier commentary on slot this season was ott

Having said all that we won the league last year and are currently out of the champions league spots. We are losing games. We are drawing games. We’ve only won six games since October. It’s not really a social media over reaction anymore. We also have a manager seems to be struggling to attack, struggling to use a squad and struggling to manage personalities.

Maybe we are about to move past this.

But I really don’t think a sponsored PR exercise is going to change my own view of things. If anything, it shows that they’re clearly worried.

Again. That wasn't the point of the interview ! Not everything has to be about the playing side of the game ! Whether you consider it a PR exercise or not it was an interesting look inside the club.

 

[darkstarexodus]

I couldn't be bothered to watch the video so asked Gemini to summarize it for me. Does this kinda cover it?

Thanks for sharing this. I hadn't had a chance to watch it (and frankly don't care to watch videos of that length).

All of those points in the video are well and good but many of them don't seem to align with the evidence of our eyes, at least this season.

 

[Mamma Mia]

I know this isn't a remotely original thought, but the reaction from fans and social media generally to a bad half season has really made me believe that a lot of people have been quite damaged by the internet/social media etc.

The lack of patience and this apparently driving need for sensational takes - I just don't think you'd have got that 20 years ago. And I see a few others have noticed it as well, specifically in this context. I'm not a big fan of his but Martin Samuel was on the TV on Sunday talking about exactly this - booing at half-time etc. How there's no such thing as just "a bad season" anymore. I think there's a lot of truth to that.

I think Ballbag was on Twitter recently too, sharing the same sentiment. People need to fucking chill out, get off their phones etc. Or at least get off fucking Tiktok.

Virg speaks about it in the interview with Gary Neville released today too.

I think the club are very conscious of this issue and the way pundits (especially ex-players) and a small but growing percentage of our fans are affected.

Being a bit more traditional and "knowledgeable" than most clubs, our fans have resisted this longer than others. We're getting to the point now where we're actually at risk of affecting our newer / young / inexperienced / prospective players negatively. We're becoming the cunts we accused the world of being.

 

[SummerOnions]

Virg speaks about it in the interview with Gary Neville released today too.

I think the club are very conscious of this issue and the way pundits (especially ex-players) and a small but growing percentage of our fans are affected.

Being a bit more traditional and "knowledgeable" than most clubs, our fans have resisted this longer than others. We're getting to the point now where we're actually at risk of affecting our newer / young / inexperienced / prospective players negatively. We're becoming the cunts we accused the world of being.

Lol i read the second two paragraphs like it was a quote from Virg and got very confused

 

[tombrown]

Being a bit more traditional and "knowledgeable" than most clubs, our fans have resisted this longer than others. We're getting to the point now where we're actually at risk of affecting our newer / young / inexperienced / prospective players negatively. We're becoming the cunts we accused the world of being.

Maybe this is true, but the name calling and pure hatred directed at Slot (not just on here) does not seem in line with the supposed LFC culture. It may be that we part ways with Slot at some stage (personally I hope he proves everyone wrong), but the disrespect to a manager who brought a PL title to the club in his first season is sickening.