If he signs, Salah is going to have to be rotated next season which means Slot is going to have to sign someone he is actually willing to play in that position
Match Thread Fulham (A) - Sun Apr 6th 14:00
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I'm not. That wasn't a new level of performance for half that squad; it was just a new low. A good few players have been shite for ages.
Bradley, Chiesa, endo, tsimi, elliott should start the next game. They won't however.
Do you mean someone willing to be back up to Salah? Or someone willing to put proper graft in?
Salah had the ability to make Mykolenko look like prime Maldini which is some feat.
I don’t think we would ever consider AR because of his age and the fact he’s signed a long deal with Fulham means he’s too expensive. I also think the club has hopes for Beck too.
I agree with pretty much everything else in your original post.
Salah is a heavy part of the issue though.
In this game we still tried to make everything come down on right side, even though Diaz was having much more joy the few times we went down the left. In the end we overloaded the right and still looked iffy attacking. Bradley and elliott helped salah a lot, and salah still kept breaking down attacks.
If salah is poor, we're poor.
Well, that is something to address this summer with a restriction of the team and adding attacking players.
There’s no point buying attacking players to come in for Salah if Slot doesn’t have the balls to drop him.
Thats not what we're doing though. We're restructuring the attack so that we aren't reliant on Salah.
At the same time we start planning for his successor.
Are we?
I missed the game, was Kelleher that bad?
He didn't really make any mistakes except for the pen situation.
I don't. I'm not sure how you can say you expect a change in attitude when we've been putting in dogshit performances now for nearly two months. The manager is showing no signs of giving in and changing the team to freshen it up. We're just throwing mud at a wall and hoping it sticks, week in, week out.
I can't fathom how anyone can be apologetic or optimistic that the same thing will produce something different because of a change in attitude. We were as poor as we were in the final, with even more unforced mistakes thrown in.
VVD, Gravenberch, Konate and Szobo are horribly out of form, other players are coming on as subs and fairing better and look fresher and capable of more, yet we're persisting with the same players who are either out of form or exhausted or both. Szobo has had the occasional purple patch but is mostly flattering to deceive on a weekly basis. Gravy isn't anywhere near the effective no.6 that he was for the first half of the season.
Elliott, Endo and a couple of others deserve minutes now. You can easily add in Salah, Jota and Gapko of being as guilty of abject inconsistency, while Kelleher is just overrated and not good enough for a title challenger. We need an overhaul, but if Slot doesn't do the basics in the coming games, we're in for a nervy finish, as many of us predicted (and were shot down over) weeks ago.
We're playing shite, the manager is being a stubborn prick, things aren't great and no, the same group of players aren't going to suddenly turn it around, that's been the theory for ages now and it's not happening. We're losing more games when Slot predictably sticks with the same limp team.
He just exudes nervousness though, with Alisson between the sticks we look a lot more assured at the back. And that stupid thing he does where he brings the ball out and just stands there with it, it's more irritating than VAR. We were 3-1 down at one point and the stupid bellend is just stood there with the ball, wasting time. He's garbage.
I agree, he's a good keeper, not a top class keeper.
If we plan on keeping Salah then we aren’t restructuring anything because the same thing will happen. We will be asking a right back and midfielder to cover his lazy ass.
Nah it’s just worth debating when people slag off the main reason we are walking the league.
Can’t be arsed.
He’s having the best season ever for a Liverpool player but many fans cannot wait to bring the knives out.
He’s so far ahead of everyone else is laughable yet when he has a poor run it’s like some actually enjoy it.
He's been far and away the best player in the league this season, only an idiot would take some ridiculous "told you so" pride over Salah's current form.
Getting back to the game: the reason we lost was gifting Fulham opportunities. Credit to Fulham in that they took their opportunities well. The game should've ended in a draw as we had more than enough opportunities to equalize.
A reminder - that was only the second league defeat and the first one away from home; it was also the end of a 26 game unbeaten run. Context is required when a setback happens and calm heads to get back on track.
A reminder - that was only the second league defeat and the first one away from home; it was also the end of a 26 game unbeaten run. Context is required when a setback happens and calm heads to get back on track.
I think if this had come randomly, I could take it, but for context - this is on the back of a run of really poor performances. Yes, we've done brilliantly overall, but we've also been poor now for quite a sizable chunk of the season too, it's not a short dip in form, the last time we really played well was the City and Newcastle back to back leagues games (5-6wks ago), before that we were poor (performance wise) for a run of games too (Plymouth, Everton A, Wolves and Villa).
It's true that context matters, mark, but in that respect I'd also flag up the trouble we've consistently had against Fulham in recent seasons, even when our overall form's been good. There's no doubt we have work to do, but we need to be careful not to over-emphasise the task ahead any more than underestimate it.
Robertson looks like weak link
Much of the Liverpool focus has been on Trent Alexander-Arnold’s potential exit and Virgil van Dijk’s contract impasse, but Arne Slot has uncertainty throughout his backline. Giorgi Mamardashvili’s arrival this summer is welcome but creates questions around the futures of both Alisson and Caoimhín Kelleher in goal. The contracts of Ibrahima Konaté and Andy Robertson expire next summer, although the full-back’s recent displays suggest Liverpool’s focus could be on replacing him rather than renewing his deal. Robertson is one of the club’s finest ever left-backs (behind Alan Kennedy and Emlyn Hughes) but increasingly looks a weak link in Liverpool’s starting XI and gifted Fulham a 2-1 lead on Sunday with an errant pass to Alex Iwobi, whose shot then deflected off Robertson into the net. It did not help the 31-year-old, later substituted for Federico Chiesa as Liverpool chased the game, that Fulham’s Antonee Robinson, heavily linked with Liverpool, shone for the hosts.
Robbo will be the first to admit that he's made mistakes this season, but the one against Fulham was so unforced and such a school boy error, we were all over the shop but none more so than him. He's starting to remind me of how Fabinho and Hendo both were in the final season or two. Mentally he looks one step behind the play all the time, add in that he hasn't got one assist in the Premiership this season, statistically he's severely dropped off too (though so has Trent).
I was just typing that!
As for the assists. A big part of that is down to Slot. He wants his fallbacks to be more cautious.
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