Callum Wright

@davethejuicegod @1nsightty He seems to be hiding from this.

@davethejuicegod @1nsightty He said “sports science now shows”. I want to see the science, not a list of cherry-picked players.

Mental burnout is a real factor in why some young players don’t reach their expected peak. It’s not just injuries. Early heavy minutes = pressure, expectation, tactical responsibility, and reduced recovery time. That creates decision fatigue and slows development long-term.

@HotPinkSupreme @NotSlotaClue You think that was good goalkeeping?

@CallumWright28 @NotSlotaClue Goofy.

Maybe the people questioning Mamardashvili should question why he's faced 4 big chances in every game he's played bar Everton. Alisson has looked bang average this season.

@HotPinkSupreme @NotSlotaClue 2nd. Schade has acres of space and the keeper retreats, giving him even more space and time.

@CallumWright28 @NotSlotaClue Which of the 3 goals was that ?.You better not be lying.

@NotSlotaClue @HotPinkSupreme Same game he handed them a goal by moving back onto his line? Brentford away?

@HotPinkSupreme He made a ridiculous save in the Brentford game and should have saved the second goal. I can't think of any other errors he's made.

@NotSlotaClue I’d say his reluctance to come off his line can turn a chance into a big chance.

@beth_lindop Another transition season then?

Seen a fair bit of doom-mongering about the potential departure of senior players this summer. Of course, losing multiple leaders in one go is a concern - and sad, considering what they’ve achieved at Liverpool - but equally it shouldn’t be treated as some big conspiracy.

@1nsightty Let’s see the evidence then.

Sports science now shows players with extreme workloads before 21 often face recurring muscle issues later and earlier performance plateaus. Early exposure can shift a player’s peak forward but also bring their decline earlier than expected.

@RedOnesIre @Das_FPL @OneSGW Bringing in 2 players doesn’t magically make the other 9 fitter.

@Das_FPL @OneSGW City bought players in January when they were faltering, PSG players play less minutes over the course of a season by far than PL players, 34 games, no league cup, fixtures moved whenever they want, rested against poorer opposition.

So Chelsea and Liverpool are the 2 teams that have been outrun this season. Chelsea basically didn’t have a pre season due to the Club World Cup. Liverpools pre season was hugely disrupted due to the death of a teammate. Well no shit Sherlock!

@SherekhanKlopp @carlton_hero @Carl_M79 Opposition teams playing long balls/throw-ins or with a low block isn’t a constraint. It’s their right to do it, and it’s part of your job to counter it. But we heard plenty from him about it. Sounds like excuses to me.

That’s still leaning on the idea they’re ‘excuses’ rather than constraints. If it was just ‘excuses’, it wouldn’t show up consistently in the data, and the club wouldn’t be aligned on it internally. They see the inputs and are aware of. If the read was that he’s basically not good enough, he wouldn’t be here. Managers don’t get protected out of some sentiment. Clubs are ruthless. The more likely read is this season is distorted, not definitive. And making a call off distorted inputs is how you get the decision wrong more often.

Imagine stating that you have 'no faith' in a manager that has won a PL title and the league in his own country prior. NO faith? None at all? Really? Like he's all of a sudden become some completely clueless simpleton? Wow.

@SherekhanKlopp @carlton_hero @Carl_M79 Of course. That’s why I said you don’t get to see the other side. If he has another season where injuries are an issue do you give him another season hoping this will be “cleaner”?

Reality is that there is opportunity cost on both sides. Move early and you’re not avoiding risk, you’re swapping it for a different one. A new manager, new ideas, same structural issues, same transition. You reset again before fixing the squad, which is the real priority. ‘Finding the floor’ is also not passive. It’s seeing how someone operates when conditions stabilise. That hasn’t really happened apart from 24/25, and he took the team to first place. Judging before that point is just guessing. The ‘pool of managers’ point also hedges both ways. There isn’t some obvious upgrade sitting there, and clubs that churn managers mid-transition usually make things worse, not better. Fan point is fair, but that’s expectation management. If the environment is volatile, anyone looks worse. It’s why the smarter move is making the decision with clean inputs. Right now, too many of those inputs are distorted. That’s how you end up misreading noise as the pattern versus being the outlier. It’s why I’m sitting back and waiting for them to sort the squad, sort the prep and we can judge it all clean and clear.

@SherekhanKlopp @carlton_hero @Carl_M79 But, it looks like the club have decided to stick with him. Let’s hope they’ve got it right, because I can’t be arsed watching another season of dreadful football and hearing his excuses.

@SherekhanKlopp @carlton_hero @Carl_M79 You never get to see what the other scenario looks like so a decision needs to be made. My money is on him turning out to just not be that good. And I don’t think the fanbase is all the enamoured with him. If he starts badly next season it could turn toxic quickly again.

@carlton_hero @Carl_M79 The context matters because the PL isn’t played in a vacuum. Klopp would have had more PLs if he wasn’t competing against a City team and Pep at the top of their games. Slot benefitted from the opposite. That’s why the jury is out for me.

@carlton_hero @Carl_M79 It’s not a minor detail but he was helped a lot by having no real competition. Only needing 75 points to win a league has happened only 8 times in 33 years. Slot had one of those straight away. Arteta has surpassed that twice and will almost certainly do it this season.

@carlton_hero @Carl_M79 I need to see Slot win a league where he actually has some competition. And there is a nightmare possibility of Arteta doing a double this season, so I’m hesitant to write him off too early.

@CallumWright28 @Carl_M79 1 of those will go down in history as a transformational all time great. And the other I'm guessing is the one who after many years still couldn't manage to achieve what Slot did last season?

@SherekhanKlopp Why can you control load in pre-season but not in season? Don’t they play matches in pre-season too? Can you not control minutes and build them up in season?

Regarding players returning from injury and showing rhythm mid-season vs a collective being disrupted at the outset. When one player misses pre-season or gets injured mid-season, reintegration is easier because the collective already has rhythm, fitness and intensity. They’re plugging into a stable base. When a whole group goes through it, that base doesn’t exist in the way it’s supposed to. They’re not reintegrating into rhythm, they’re trying to rebuild it while competing every three days. Completely different problem, especially when injuries overlap. We’ve literally seen it. Salah, Trent, Robertson all go down around Feb 2024, then return into a side that had already lost some flow. None of them hit rhythm straight away, and their reintegration coincided with performances wobbling through late March into April. Not because of ‘quality’, but because continuity had already been disrupted, then reset again alongside other factors. One player plugs into rhythm. Multiple players returning at once resets it. Also, individual rehab is bespoke. You can control load, intensity, progression. You can’t do that with an entire squad mid-season because they still have to play, and fixture congestion kills that control. Availability is one layer. Continuity is the real one. Break that, and it doesn’t just switch back on.

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