It’s bad enough that Liverpool FC have been performing poorly this season, that our attitude has not been anywhere close to the levels needed, but Arne Slot’s litany of excuses is verging on the point of embarrassment.
You can not complain about having a ‘thin’ squad after you spent 400+ million on transfers. You just can’t. If depth was such a concern, then you would have targeted it with the 400+ million. It is honestly laughable.
He complains about 3 matches in a week, well guess what, when you manage a top team, you are expected to compete on all fronts. He complains about injuries, which are to be expected in this line of work. One of a manager’s strongest points is to be able to adapt and get positive results, even when things are going wrong and players are unavailable. A manager is tested in these moments, not when everything is going right.
And, what is worse, is he preempts this by saying ‘This is not an excuse’ then spends 2 minutes listing off every excuse for the poor performances and results. It is honestly painful.
He refuses to internalise and recognise his own faults. He maintains with the same structure, formation and player selection that has contributed to 6 loses out of 7. Outside of Crystal Palace, where he decided to play a completely unrecognizable side, and then compound that with picking a young bench, not a single senior player available to come on.
Absolutely insane. I can not fathom what is going through Slot’s mind. I would see he needs a break, a holiday, but the guy spent the end of last season going on more holidays then I have had in a decade. That contributes too, he dropped his standards, and the players did not only follow suit, but were encouraged by him to do so. Now, when it is time to go again, the players can not re-find those standards.
It is a mess. The one time FSG sanction a massive transfer haul, we blow the first season due to Slot’s ineptitude. Unthinkable, to go from Champions last season, to what could be the worst title defence in Premier League history, if current form continues.
I could have never imagined this fall last season. Genuinely in a state of shock, anger and distrust. Then, as if things weren’t already bad enough, we have Aston Villa (Who just beat City and had a week’s rest), Real Madrid (Return of Trent) and Man City.
I can’t see Slot surviving this.