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Sack watch

I would question the motivation of any manager who jumped ship to Saudi Arabia straight after his first sacking, and then got sacked again. That butchered his career more than anything he did at Villa. Before then, he would at least have secured a move to a decent Championship club for his achievements at Rangers alone. I've no idea where he goes next. That said, could he do much worse as an interim? There's little evidence that Slot is leading us into the CL places with this squad. It would kill me if the clowns at United had shown a) they had a better summer than us and b) made the right call, making a managerial change, and somehow finished above us. It's a very real possibility. Eurgh! The best-case scenario is we just tell Xabi we're not hanging around for him to take a sabbatical after 2.4 years of coaching. Book a plane, stay in Zidane's house and get your arse to Kirkby!
 
I would question the motivation of any manager who jumped ship to Saudi Arabia straight after his first sacking, and then got sacked again. That butchered his career more than anything he did at Villa. Before then, he would at least have secured a move to a decent Championship club for his achievements at Rangers alone. I've no idea where he goes next.
You clearly have not been paying attention. If the likes of losers such as Bruce, Redknapp, Allardyce, Ange and Warnock can get job after job in the PL then Stevie is a shoe-in for at least a dozen clubs !
 
Whilst I abhor all forms of gambling, my attention has been drawn to the bookies odds on the next EPL manager to get sacked.
Bookmakers believe Arne Slot’s days as Liverpool boss could be numbered after he was slashed into 1-2 by Hills to be the next Premier League manager to leave their post.

As big as 12-1 on Sunday evening, Slot, who guided Liverpool to the Premier League title in his first season as manager last term, had overtaken Tottenham’s Thomas Frank at the head of the sack-race betting by Monday monring.
 
Xabi is 10-11 favourite to be the next Coach.

Luis Enrique 6-1
Klopp 8-1
Andoni Iraola 8-1
Oliver Glasner 9-1
 
i am somewhat heartened by adam clerys video on what went wrong for xabi at madrid, it’s confirmation of everything people have been discussing with some reassurance of his tactical astuteness.

still kind of wary that tactical praise videos were being made about slot a year ago
 
I actually thought Slot was decent tactically. Until this season when we started going behind every game, and his answer was to merely throw on all the attackers we had off the bench. Against United it resulted in a midfield 2 of Jones and Wirtz from 60 minutes onwards. That day was a big red flag for me.

Tactics aside, I think Slot's bigger issue seems to be lack of personality. There just doesnt seem to be anything in him making the players give that extra 10/20%. He also seems unable to instil a sense of self belief in players. We obviously dont see behind the scenes, but I get the distinct sense that there's a lack of warmth between the players and him. And that disconnect plays out every week on the pitch.

Klopp's relationship with the players could be fiery at times, but there was always this very definite feeling that we had this sort of siege mentality "us vs them" togetherness thing going. Which is all gone now.

The other day I saw a clip of the Nunez goals late on when we turned it around and beat Newcastle 2-1. As he's about to come on the pitch as a a sub there's this intense chest pump from Klopp, basically saying, go fucking get them. That singular moment said so much about what we're missing now.
 
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