Arne Slot

[Mark79]

The Klopp discussion is pointless. He is currently employed by another organisation. He's not going to leave that for a 2 month interim spell.

[Catrin]

I don't see a new manager coming in new rather than the summer, why would they want to be associated with the current ****show. Summer in principle gives a bit of time to get ideas across and a clean break. Also fitness issues aren't likely to improve even with a change of manager.

If there is a change now it's a temporary manager, but I just don't see anything happening before summer.

A new manager now could maybe earn some early credit by getting us into next year’s CL. Or fail, with someone else’s squad, and be up against it before they’ve even had a transfer window and pre-season. Big risk, for us and them. There’s only two managers I’d be willing to make that change now for, Jurgen and the Rafa of 20 years ago.

[Exiled_red]

I don't see a new manager coming in new rather than the summer, why would they want to be associated with the current ****show. Summer in principle gives a bit of time to get ideas across and a clean break. Also fitness issues aren't likely to improve even with a change of manager.

If there is a change now it's a temporary manager, but I just don't see anything happening before summer.

[Cerbie]

We will be outrun if players don't have the conditioning.

We managed a high tempo against Gala, but keeping that up for 2 months would be a stretch when most of the bench can’t manage a full game at our current pedestrian pace.

It might not be realistic, but if Klopp were to come back even as interim, we would probably get the ultimate new manager bounce.

I’m less bothered about Klopp making it difficult for another manager to come in. Managers need a level of self confidence to succeed and if they are worried about Klopp’s shadow, they probably aren’t the right person for the job.

[BG1973]

Everyone suggesting Gerrard as an interim- I think they should offer Klopp 10m to 15m to do an interim job til the end of the season. Surely it’d be too much to turn down, for 2 months work. He’d get the fans behind the team, and one things for sure- we wouldn’t be out run and out worked under Klopp, the way we were today and so many times recently.

I’d say it would almost guarantee us a CL spot, and I think we’d have a decent chance at winning either the CL or FA cup.

And best of all, maybe he’d realize what he’s left behind and extend it beyond the summer…

We will be outrun if players don't have the conditioning.

[danperkins]

Bet Hughes and Edwards are too busy considering their own futures to be overly concerned about a lowly football manager. It’s going to be a wild summer.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Well I think you are all a bunch of grumps and everything is fine

[Irishnev]

Bet Hughes and Edwards are too busy considering their own futures to be overly concerned about a lowly football manager. It’s going to be a wild summer.

ya, I wonder if this is the case

[kingfunk]

Call anyone, call the ghost busters ffs. Bet the board are in turmoil behind the scenes and don't know whether to stick or twist.

Bet Hughes and Edwards are too busy considering their own futures to be overly concerned about a lowly football manager. It’s going to be a wild summer.

[danperkins]

Call anyone, call the ghost busters ffs. Bet the board are in turmoil behind the scenes and don't know whether to stick or twist.

[5europeancups]

Its the international break. Call xabi

[fidget]

No Gerrard anywhere near please. Leave the dead man walking til the end of the season.
All the people claiming to be not bothering watching us at the moment need to check their privilege.

[Kenneth]

Firstly, I don't think Klopp would say yes. And secondly, it would be a bad move longer term as the next full time manager would feel Klopp breathing down his neck. We'd look like a club who can't move on from him and that's going to be off-putting for potential candidates. It isn't a realistic suggestion.

[Cerbie]

Everyone suggesting Gerrard as an interim- I think they should offer Klopp 10m to 15m to do an interim job til the end of the season. Surely it’d be too much to turn down, for 2 months work. He’d get the fans behind the team, and one things for sure- we wouldn’t be out run and out worked under Klopp, the way we were today and so many times recently.

I’d say it would almost guarantee us a CL spot, and I think we’d have a decent chance at winning either the CL or FA cup.

And best of all, maybe he’d realize what he’s left behind and extend it beyond the summer…

100% this. The change pays for itself with a run to the CL final and qualifying for next season CL too.

It would be a massive insult to Slot though, and it’s that kind of consideration that may lead Klopp to turn a big offer like that down, even if they could make it work contractually.

[Exiled_red]

Being out run isn't necessarily a problem, you can and should be letting the ball do the work making the opposition do more of the work because they are chasing possession, obviously you still need to be making runs off the ball, our movement has been an issue, and track back which has also been an issue. But it's about the lack of pressing and seeming lack of desire in the side and the slow tempo at which we play. Slot has complained about low block numerous times this season, moving the ball around quickly dragging players out of position and not giving time to get back into shape is the way to beat that,but we do none of that.

Fitness is a massive issue, whether it is in terms of playing too many minutes, players being knackered on 70mins or what. I wonder how much of this is due to what happened in the summer and interruptions to preseason and fitness training etc. Conventional wisdom has been that preseason gets fitness levels up where they need to be and problems with that are never really solved within the season. Exhaustion could somewhat have been alleviated/reduced by better use of the squad. I know the squad is small but we could have given certain players more game time. The other thing we could have done was try to win the game early rather than wasting the first 30mins or even half of games doing **** all. At home if we could have got a couple of goals ahead relatively early on teams would have been beaten, and we could have rested players. Slow starts allow opposition teams to get a foothold into the game and build from there the encouragement we given them allows them to think they have a chance by keeping the game in the balance, we needed to be looking to take games away from them early.