05 Dec 2025 11:50:17
Highlights from Slot's interview:
- Top 4 the aim this season
- On team's performance vs West Ham and Sunderland:
"A step forward. if not for the deflection (Sunderland's goal), we would have kept 2 clean sheets. "
- On Generating More Chances for Isak:
"He's not the only No. 9 that suffers in some games from not getting as many chances. It's more important for them to touch the ball at the right time than to touch it so many times. "
- On Chiesa:
"Every player has a possibility to start, but we have many options (Cody and Gakpo) in his position. "
- On Leeds:
"I looked at Leeds-Chelsea. So, I know what to expect. It will be long-balls, low-blocks. just like we have faced in all of the games, maybe with the exception of two. ".
05 Dec 2025 12:28:16
I bought into the whole “positional play evolution, ” the “calmer approach, ” the “trust the process” nonsense. But at this point? It’s not a process — it’s paralysis.
Arne Slot has turned us from a high-octane, transition-killing machine into a slow, predictable, sterile-possession lab experiment. Everything feels overcoached and under-executed. No verticality. No bite. No identity that actually hurts opponents.
The pressing? It’s like Klopp’s blueprint got photocopied 20 times and now the lines are all blurry. The build-up? Fullbacks inverting into zones they don’t even look comfortable in. The attack? Endless U-shaped passing with zero threat between the lines.
I don’t care how “modern” it’s supposed to be — if your system turns elite players into confused traffic cones, maybe the system isn’t it.
I’m not saying he’s a bad coach. I’m saying he’s the wrong coach for us. Wrong tempo, wrong structure, wrong everything.
At this point, the football is flat, the identity is gone, and the results look like a team waiting for instructions that never come.
05 Dec 2025 13:30:53
So Chiesa has to battle Cody AND Gakpo for his position?
05 Dec 2025 14:15:52
The Elliott response was cold. He’s still a player for the club and contributed a lot during his time here, so that answer wasn’t the best.
It seems that when Slot decides he doesn’t like a player, that’s the end of it. This has been seen with Chiesa, Endo, Gomez, Nunez, and Harvey. Meanwhile, Klopp has managed to get good performances out of all of them, even when they weren’t always in the best form.
05 Dec 2025 14:21:37
I do love a good melodrama, particularly leading up to Christmas time. You just know that there’ll be a miracle or two and we’ll all live happily ever after.
We haven’t played as badly as this since Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister, yet we are still above Newcastle, Tottenham and, surprise, surprise, the People’s Team and we are level on points with Amorim’s army. We are two points off a top 4 spot and we have yet to see Arsenal have their annual wobble and Arteta to start second guessing himself.
05 Dec 2025 14:40:07
""A step forward. if not for the deflection (Sunderland's goal), we would have kept 2 clean sheets. ""
And we would not have won that game, Arne.
"- On Chiesa:
"Every player has a possibility to start, but we have many options (Cody and Gakpo) in his position. "
Notice he never says Chiesa's name. This is not the first nor second time he has done this when Chiesa's name/ contribution is brought up.
Also as you stated, the only options we have at left wide forward is Cody and Gakpo cos no one else seems to ever get a look-in depsite the actual options being available
Pathetic.
05 Dec 2025 15:37:10
So Gomez, Nunez, Endo and Harvey havnt played because Arne doesn't LIKE them? Holy Jaysus, what next. They didn't or don't play because they are not good enough to get in the team, a fact 99% of Lfc fans would agree with.
Chiesa not playing these last few weeks can have something to moan about but that's about it. Why particularly should Slot be worried about a player whos not even in the squad this year when his job is on the line?
05 Dec 2025 16:10:19
Florin. Endo should have been playing a few games in the last 8 games either as a starter or sub. the midfield is all over the place n at least he gets stuck in n he knows his role.
05 Dec 2025 16:13:42
With you Florian.
05 Dec 2025 19:38:26
Endo is not as good a player as Grav, Macca (even when on wretched form by his standards) or Szob in Slots eyes and most other peoples too. So why when your job is on the line would you play someone you don't rate? The Japan coach also prefers other players to Endo, he mustnt like wataru either.
05 Dec 2025 20:06:08
I don't think I'd be picking Chiesa, Endo, Gomez, Elliott and Nunez if I could help it.
05 Dec 2025 20:51:57
I wouldn’t pick Nunez if you pointed a gun at me, well I probably would I suppose but I wouldn’t be happy about it.
Chiesa is a really interesting player. When he first got here, common opinion, certainly on this forum, was that he was a damaged, injury riddled, has been who should be nowhere near the first team. 18 months later, and despite him never having started and completed a full game, and despite the coaching staff having worked with him for a year and a half and still not picking him the same forum now have him promoted into the ‘dogs b0ll0x’ category. Strange.
05 Dec 2025 22:20:40
"They didn't or don't play because they are not good enough to get in the team, a fact 99% of Lfc fans would agree with. "
Florian, this is not always true. Slot has shown he will not play guys he does not trust regardless of how well or pathetic his "tried and trusted" are playing. To me, that is poor man management.
Jose at Inter Milan said the best coaching he had to do back then, was to coach keep the players who don't play involved as he would play them but sparingly cos they were going for a treble in 2010. Klopp for the most part used to do that as well.
This is how you plit the dressing room and create sacred cows. Slot has agendas vs certain players like Chiesa he doesn't want nor didn't sign. That much is clear hence sometimes, ability has nothing to do with it esp. if the so called "sacred cows" have been bricking it for weeks.
05 Dec 2025 22:21:49
I wouldn't pick Nunez if it was him pointing the gun at me.