What’s on your mind?

posted by lfcbot

  • Lorfan@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    watching salah play was the only reason why I supported liverpool in the first place so seeing his drop off is disappointing. this season went horribly. I don’t know why slot changed up a winning formula.

    • zabadoh@ani.social
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      1 month ago

      TAA was going regardless of whatever Slot or Hughes did.

      And Diogo…

      So those were 2 big changes that were going to happen last summer, regardless.

      Letting Luis Diaz go was clearly premature though, so they did shoot themselves in the foot there.

      And all 3 of their absences this season definitely reduced tactical support for Salah to be his best self.

      New players require some bedding in time, especiallyif they’re young, regardless of how great they are.

      Hopefully the new players will come good and the team will really start to gel in the latter part of the season.

    • PumpUpTheJam@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      So you’re a Salah fan, not a LFC supporter? Good to know.

      I adore Salah. Club legend who can sit at the same table as Rush, Dalglish, Fowler, Gerrard et al.

      Slot isn’t a fan boy/girl, he’s the manager and has to do what he believes is in the best long term interest of the club. Slot wasn’t willing to build a team around an aging player, having the rest of the team do his running, tracking back, dummy runs to make him space… it might have worked for another season or two, but all good things come to an end, and time and tide wait for nobody. Any player not performing can and should be dropped. This is the real world, honey - bienvenue.

      Slot is the manager of Liverpool Football Club, not Salah.

      Slot probably hopes to be employed by LFC in 5 years, Salah won’t be able to perform at the required level of the Premier League in 5 years. It’s how getting older works.

      No player will ever be bigger than the club.

    • afc@programming.devOPM
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      26 days ago

      He just doesn’t have the people skills to keep a hungry midfield/attack motivated like klopp did. I get wanting to change the team to play to your strengths, but I do think he changed too much too fast.