| From a Liverpool Message Board….. 06:46 - Oct 30 with 8824 views | thehat |
Saw this on a Liverpool Messaage Board ( Don’t ask) Made me laugh as it reminded me of articles on here over the years. So I guess shit happens at all clubs even bloody Liverpool……….Imagine them supporting a club like QPR
What is Arne Slot getting wrong? Allow me. Where to even start.
Firstly, we’re too easy to set up against and that’s on Slot’s tactical setup. His system invites teams to sit deep in low-blocks, absorb our slow, predictable possession play, and break into acres when we lose the ball. He knows it — he’s even admitted it and broadcasted it to everyone in interviews — but he hasn’t changed anything about it.
Then the tempo is all wrong. This is a manager who talks about control, but it’s killing us. His idea of “controlled possession” has drained all spark out of our play. There’s no punch, no gear change — just half-arsed tippy-tappy patterns that get broken up or ultimately go nowhere anymore.
Set pieces are a disaster zone — and that reflects coaching. We’ve only scored once from a dead ball in the league all season. Meanwhile, we can’t defend them either. That’s a preparation problem. And it’s costing us goals every single game.
His team selections don’t build chemistry. He’s chopping and changing, but nothing’s working. The front three doesn’t link. The midfield lacks bite. It’s like he’s guessing combinations rather than building understanding.
Like Nikky says, he’s not handling players well. Kerkez looks broken — played out of position, misused, and overexposed. There’s no excuse for this because Robbo’s come in and done well every time we needed him. Szoboszlai, our in-form central midfielder, is in and out of the right-back position. Gravenberch — our only recognisable DM when fit — has either been dropped into centre-back or given license to roam forward. When he uses Curtis, he often leaves only Wirtz sitting alongside him late on in games, but this combination doesn’t work — Wirtz needs to play further forward and isn’t a sitting midfielder.
As a result of the tactical shape Slot plays when we start games — and the mismanagement of how players are redeployed within games — we always lack numbers in midfield and fail to shield the back four. The attack are also too far ahead of the midfield, waiting for a magic pass or piece of build-up play that never comes.
Confidence is eroding because roles make no sense. There’s no conviction, passion or physical edge anymore. That intensity we were known for? Gone. And that comes down to Slot’s philosophy. As well as demotivating the players by not using them properly, he’s prioritised positional shape over pressing fire — and it’s left us passive, second to everything, lacking fight, and mentally soft. We’re not dropping under-performers, or rewarding players like Chiesa with starts in the side based on merit, which doesn’t incentivise the starting XI to compete for their spots.
Worst of all, there’s no sign at the moment that Slot is learning from this, or equipped to deal with it. He isn’t reacting properly between games or adapting the shape tactically to correct these problems — and now he’s too slow to react even within games when we’re under fire. There’s no flexibility in how we set up, so we start every match on the back foot. We go behind, we drift. Teams go ahead and sit deep — and we play straight into it. Then, for about 20–30 minutes in the second half, we suddenly look dangerous — not because of anything planned, but because the right players, in the right positions, happen to be on the pitch at the same time, for a brief period. That’s when we rely on a bit of individual magic to get us out of jail.
For all the talk of modern ideas, we look rigid and reactive. That’s on the manager.
Some of us are trying to be patient. But Slot needs to wake up. This is the Premier League — not a Dutch coaching seminar. If he doesn’t take responsibility and adapt fast — really fast — the entire fanbase will turn, and so will the FSG board.
At least half the fanbase is already there actually. There’s no more credit in the bank. Slot needs a decent run of wins immediately, playing in a recognisable, repeatable way.
At this point, I’m not holding my breath.
Rant over. 🔴 |  | | |  |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 07:52 - Oct 30 with 6534 views | SydneyRs |
You indeed have to laugh. I've always assumed if we won the league we'd all be happy forever, but it seems this is not the case and moaning is quick to restart the following season if things don't continue to go well.
I suppose at clubs with big expectations it will be like this, but surely any Leicester fan that lived through their premiership winning season can't want for anything more? | | | |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 07:59 - Oct 30 with 6505 views | JAPRANGERS |
I read somewhere that Liverpool have been sounding out Klopp to see if he would be interested in a return! 😳. Notsure of the veracity of this. |  | | |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 08:04 - Oct 30 with 6482 views | Dorse |
'Scousers In Pack Of Whinging Bastards Shock' is hardly a surprising headline. |  |
| 'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!' |
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| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 08:06 - Oct 30 with 6475 views | JAPRANGERS |
What went wrong there?
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| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 08:18 - Oct 30 with 6395 views | stevec |
When we won the league, we did, we followed up the following season with an opening 0-4 home defeat to Everton and the natives were less than happy. |  | | |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 08:23 - Oct 30 with 6375 views | rbee |
They were unlucky to lose three of their first teamers but the money that they spent is totally bonkers, 125 million is laughable.
I wonder if Slot said 'Get me Isak and I will get you the title' |  | | |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 08:27 - Oct 30 with 6323 views | numptydumpty |
Probably if you went on a Real Madrid or Barcelona site, you might see similar. Or a Bayern Munich forum complaining about Harry Kane's lack of end product.
The mad mentality of a football fan !!
We all plead guilty to that !! |  |
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| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 08:42 - Oct 30 with 6229 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 07:59 - Oct 30 by JAPRANGERS |
I read somewhere that Liverpool have been sounding out Klopp to see if he would be interested in a return! 😳. Notsure of the veracity of this. |
He's paid a fortune by those pissmongers and a political liability because of his Palestine stance.
Can't see it. Middle East awaits I reckon. |  | | |
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| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 08:51 - Oct 30 with 6167 views | Lblock |
I never knew there was a vineyard in Merseyside until I got a bit older.
Some of those Scouse whines are wonderful.....
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| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 09:08 - Oct 30 with 6074 views | QPRcounsellor |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 08:06 - Oct 30 by JAPRANGERS |
What went wrong there?
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The death of Jota must have had an impact, probably the major reason. Massive thing to happen and hard to get over I'd say. | | | |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 09:15 - Oct 30 with 6016 views | numptydumpty |
Rainieri was unceremoniously sacked, only a few months into a season. And the season before he won the Premier League as "LEICESTER" manager !!
Wonder if the Leicester fans were whinging then.
Short term memory loss is a thing !! [Post edited 30 Oct 9:16]
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| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 09:44 - Oct 30 with 5935 views | loftboy |
We sacked Warnock after romping the league the season before. |  |
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| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 11:02 - Oct 30 with 5746 views | mart_Goblin |
Looking to Forward to reading the views of Toshacks_Elbow and Whelanswatercarrier |  | | |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 11:15 - Oct 30 with 5680 views | kensalriser |
Wait until you read Souness’s_Perm!
I’ve always said this stuff is totally interchangeable, switch the names and it’ll fit any club you like. |  |
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| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 11:31 - Oct 30 with 5614 views | londonscottish |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 11:15 - Oct 30 by kensalriser |
Wait until you read Souness’s_Perm!
I’ve always said this stuff is totally interchangeable, switch the names and it’ll fit any club you like. |
That's true. I sometimes have a look a rival's message board after we've beaten them. You get the same range of opinions before, during and after a game as you do here.
It's just much funnier if it's their pain, their despair and their self doubt and not ours :-) |  |
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| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 12:10 - Oct 30 with 5470 views | CamberleyR |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 07:52 - Oct 30 by SydneyRs |
You indeed have to laugh. I've always assumed if we won the league we'd all be happy forever, but it seems this is not the case and moaning is quick to restart the following season if things don't continue to go well.
I suppose at clubs with big expectations it will be like this, but surely any Leicester fan that lived through their premiership winning season can't want for anything more? |
"surely any Leicester fan that lived through their premiership winning season can't want for anything more?"
Indeed. As someone who was 11 when we came the closest to being the champions of England that we'll ever be, I'd be like a pig in shite just winning the FA Cup. |  |
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| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 12:28 - Oct 30 with 5409 views | DannyPaddox |
I’ve got Carraghers Flob on block |  | | |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 12:44 - Oct 30 with 5341 views | FredManRave |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 12:28 - Oct 30 by DannyPaddox |
I’ve got Carraghers Flob on block |
I've got Robbie Fowlers dealer on speed dial. |  |
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| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 13:20 - Oct 30 with 5219 views | Superhoops2808 |
Is this Liverpool message board poster their equivalent of StainedPants Elbow that we have here?? Clearly an expert on all things managerial |  | | |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 13:39 - Oct 30 with 5154 views | DannyPaddox |
Their Friday Choons thread is bit limited. Songs about ‘Yellow Submarines’. | | | |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 13:45 - Oct 30 with 5121 views | Match82 |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 07:52 - Oct 30 by SydneyRs |
You indeed have to laugh. I've always assumed if we won the league we'd all be happy forever, but it seems this is not the case and moaning is quick to restart the following season if things don't continue to go well.
I suppose at clubs with big expectations it will be like this, but surely any Leicester fan that lived through their premiership winning season can't want for anything more? |
I'm kind of curious about Leicester in that regard. I assume we would all take the mess that they are today if it meant that one year of absolute glory?
And yes I'm aware that the mess they are today isn't any worse than we are, but you get the point |  | | |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 13:54 - Oct 30 with 5075 views | slmrstid |
"but surely any Leicester fan that lived through their premiership winning season can't want for anything more?"
Ohhhh believe me they do! Plenty of City fans up here at the minute upset they are not sweeping everyone before them 3 or 4 nil. |  | | |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 14:04 - Oct 30 with 5026 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
Liverpool fans are hilarious. I love how Heysel is down to the Roma fans in the previous year's final. | | | |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 14:26 - Oct 30 with 4923 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 14:04 - Oct 30 by Wegerles_Stairs |
Liverpool fans are hilarious. I love how Heysel is down to the Roma fans in the previous year's final. |
While Liverpool's part in the tragedy is undeniable, and the size and scale of it is obvious, I always thought this and plenty of other scouse bashing comes from the tabloids and hostile governments hating a working class city.
Death an mayhem followed a lot of clubs around the time Heysel happened. Other clubs never seem to get singled out in the same way.
In real life, I never met a scouse I didn't like. [Post edited 30 Oct 14:30]
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| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 14:50 - Oct 30 with 4851 views | DWQPR |
| From a Liverpool Message Board….. on 14:26 - Oct 30 by BazzaInTheLoft |
While Liverpool's part in the tragedy is undeniable, and the size and scale of it is obvious, I always thought this and plenty of other scouse bashing comes from the tabloids and hostile governments hating a working class city.
Death an mayhem followed a lot of clubs around the time Heysel happened. Other clubs never seem to get singled out in the same way.
In real life, I never met a scouse I didn't like. [Post edited 30 Oct 14:30]
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What a load of shîte. I cannot remember one other incident in the eighties (excuse Hillsborough), where 39 opposition supporters were killed by the despicable behaviour of a few hundred boozed up scousers. Which had the effect of English clubs being banned from Europe for six years. They want us all to remember the victims at Hillsborough but cannot remember once they holding a minutes silence or building a memorial for these poor supporters. Their supporters are so entitled beyond belief. Hope Villa stuff them on Saturday, Madrid muller them next week and then Citeh feast on the remains the tolling weekend. Hopefully that’ll see the back of Arno Slit and with a bit of luck the return of Brendan Rodgers! | |
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