16 Apr 2025 09:25:28
Just an opinion, I sometimes get the feeling that slot can't seem to get the best out of his players, doesn't seem intrested in getting the players to their best . The players that are on the bench, he is okay with them being just on the bench, doesn't want them to improve or impact the game, he just uses and exhausts the playing 11 that he thinks can only win us games!
Any one else feels the same or is it just me.
16 Apr 2025 10:15:03
I get that. Rotation is either an anathema to him, or he doesn't trust the rest of the squad.
16 Apr 2025 10:25:21
I'm ok with him winning games, Trip.
He is the manager/ head coach.
I don't get the need to look for what is wrong or what could go wrong when, in my opinion, things are going so well.
16 Apr 2025 10:27:11
Just you mate. No coach wants his players to not improve. Absolutely weird take.
16 Apr 2025 10:33:19
Yeah if he’d been a better manager I reckon we’d have won they’d league this season.
16 Apr 2025 10:37:08
“sometimes get the feeling that slot can't seem to get the best out of his players”
Even though he has taken the exact same group players that Klopp had and turned them into Premier League champions?
Surely that is the ultimate showing of a manager being able to extract the best out of his players?
16 Apr 2025 10:43:43
Agreed. If he’d focused more on getting the best of our the squad we’d win the keague.
16 Apr 2025 11:25:43
Slot has improved players.
I agree with Ed001's recent assessment that his tweaked Klopp system was working a whole lot better.
But the best thing I noticed about Slot is he is quite adaptable in tactics. I think he ll come up with the solutions time and time again to be honest.
Yes, I would like him to use the squad a bit more but he did so this a little last game.
There'll always be a player here or there that you will disagree with opinion on. Take Elliott for example. I think he deserves his shot. But that's inivetably going to be the case with certain players.
Overall, he is going to win the league and he is smart guy. Not much to complain about him really.
16 Apr 2025 11:33:15
I hope we make top 4 and guarantee CL for next season. Slot must try harder … oh wait ….
16 Apr 2025 11:42:39
OP, do you have a permit to fish in these waters?
16 Apr 2025 11:56:52
Real test for Slot comes next season. Let’s see who he brings in this summer to mould to his style of play. I am intrigued given how well he has done already if he can take this team to the next level or if this is the peak of what we see under him.
16 Apr 2025 12:30:32
Winning the league this season with amazing consistency is an incredible achievement. Next season will show if it has been the result of an excellent group of players naturally developing being a year older or if if it was down to Slot. A big summer ahead.
16 Apr 2025 13:00:13
Sometimes our own fans are our worst enemy.
We’ve got the OP saying that Slot can’t get the best out his players when we are 13pts clear with 6 games to go.
Then we’ve got people already putting the pressure on for next season as Slot’s real test.
It’s a test every season with all teams trying to improve and some getting it right and some getting it wrong. It will be very tough to win the league next season but then it was very tough this season and we’ve got ourselves 2 wins away.
Just try to enjoy it, that’s what football is all about. It just seems that some can’t enjoy the moment as they always fear the doom and gloom coming in the future.
16 Apr 2025 13:06:52
@livered maybe it is a bit of both - Squad improvement and Slot’s new system?
16 Apr 2025 13:08:02
Bizarre take, Slot has improved many players imo and has always been one of his strengths.
This new framing of trying to take away credit from Slot to a Champion season is also quite bizarre and seems to be coming from anti-LFC outside noise or bloggers looking for clicks.
16 Apr 2025 13:24:04
I think Slot is doing what every new manager does. He's trying to determine the players at the club that have the qualities he values and can put to good use. If the players want to improve under his system, they have to adapt to it.
He's doing another thing all managers do as well. He's leaning into the players he trusts to demonstrate those qualities on a weekly basis.
I'm sure Slot wants everyone to improve and will use more options when he feels he has them. This is his first season in the PL and I expect he's learning the ins and outs. Hopefully, he has a squad with more players he feels he can utilize effectively for next season.
16 Apr 2025 13:26:19
thinking about the players who have improved, I guess it's only really Grav who has improved.
maybe the OP is right!
16 Apr 2025 13:39:02
Slots done fantastic this season . a lot better than we all could imagine . things haven't been great lately but that's what he'll learn from this year . sure he thought it wouldn't be plain sailing . but next season he'll know this league a lot better.
16 Apr 2025 17:56:58
Grav has certainly improved. Arguably Gakpo has had his best Liverpool form under Slot up until his injury. Salah has had his best season in years.
16 Apr 2025 23:08:27
Alisson: playing his best football.
Konate: certainly improved despite some shaky games lately
Van Dijk: people called him the best ever 3 games ago so obviously improved.
Arnold: improved defensively
Robertson: regressed in a shocking way
Gravenberch: incredible improvements and a masterstroke playing him as the deepest midfielder
Macca: Improved
Szoboszlai: Mixed, i would say around the same
Salah: Having his best season in a couple of years
Gakpo: Having his best season since joining.
Diaz: Having his best season goals and assists wise since joining
Jota: Regressed but never rated him
Nunez: Regressed but his head is in Saudi and his car collection
Jones: Improved a lot and is now an important squad player
Bradley: Looks to have improved a lot too, just ask mbappe.
Tsimikas: Even Tsimikas has had some very good games this season.