🚨 | Arne Slot’s official statement on Salah’s recent Instagram post:
“I think Mo is a fantastic player and a great guy, but sometimes when you aren’t as good as you were it affects your ego a little bit — which is understandable. Next season with fresh mentalities and new players, we’ll see in the end who was right in this situation.”
Slot’s Liverpool are a sorry shell of the team they were.
Can Edwards/Hughes really ignore the clamour for change? It’s growing louder by the week.
So much is wrong and Slot’s reassurances that he will fix it this summer seem fanciful.
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🚨 Arne Slot message to Liverpool fans: “I can understand at this moment in time they don’t have confidence that things can be much better next season…
…but I think they are underestimating what a transfer window can do, what a new start can do… I think we know quite well what we have to improve”.
Arne Slot is a Premier League title winner, yes, but the conditions for that triumph have disappeared.
There are mitigations, yes, but Liverpool are no longer a team to fear, they are deferential, and obliging to the most embattled of sides.
It’s not just the style of play that is unrecognisable, but what the team stands for, and how they are seen…
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🚨 Gravenberch on boos from Liverpool fans: “We need them behind us. We don’t win but I think we don’t really deserve this you know”.
“Fans have to be behind us for 90 mins. When they were behind us in the second half we pressed so we needed”.
🚨 Arne Slot on boos from fans when Rio Ngumoha got subbed off: “He was having problems with his muscles and when I asked him he said he was not sure he could continue”.
“So often in football, people don't know everything. I am the manager and I need to make decisions”.