10 Dec 2025 12:06:15
Hate to burst some people’s bubble, but we’re not the title winning vintage of last season
Obviously lol
We’re taking steps towards getting to where we want to be, and for me that is ok.
So we go again
Expect more ups and downs this season.
10 Dec 2025 12:21:44
We were not vintage last season, started welk but feel away badly, a decent city team would have probably beaten us to the title last season, we were all over the place from march onwards,
10 Dec 2025 12:38:21
But why are we not?
10 Dec 2025 12:41:21
Nah we’re back. Trebles on.
10 Dec 2025 13:25:38
Faith, I admire your positive spin but in reality, rewind 4 months and see the expectations for this season. Champions of everything back then. Even the bookies agreed. In the interim Slot has fkd it. Nobody else. He's not strong enough to manage the dressing room nor make the big calls when needed.
There's an enormous gulf between now and then and we're scraping like hens in the dirt for any bit of positive progress with the squad! Hugely disappointing season. So far.
10 Dec 2025 13:57:02
Yeah, dropping Salah wasn't a big call.
10 Dec 2025 14:00:20
Just because everybody expected us to stroll to the title this season doesn't mean that they were correct, or that we should expect the same. Of course you would feel massively disappointed if that was the expectation. Isn't it better for us to reconcile ourselves with reality than dwell endlessly on the fantasy of what could/ should have been? I'm not saying that we shouldn't be higher up the table than we are, maybe we should (and you can't deny that if little decisions went our way here and there we definitely would), but clearly things have not gone to plan and the club can work on righting the course and fixing things. The belief that hiring anyone other than slot, even Gerrard, would have us skyrocket up the table with wirtz and isak sharing the ballon d'Or is just silly to me.
At any rate if spending a lot of money meant that you would cruise to the title, football would be a lot less interesting.
10 Dec 2025 14:05:18
But we had the league won by March Barry.
10 Dec 2025 14:30:25
If he made it when he initially should it would have been Rigsby. Too little too late.
10 Dec 2025 16:52:18
"Hate to burst some people’s bubble, but we’re not the title winning vintage of last season".
Ya think, Faith?
10 Dec 2025 16:41:45
Slot has ended our pressing so we don't win the ball back, made our transition to attack so slow there's no room for our attackers to exploit, and organized us so that when we lose possession were easy to play through. Then he's persisted with these tactics that don't suit any of our players until we start calling for players who look poor in a system that suits no one to be benched. The result is that we're boring to watch, losing games, and turning on our players.
Salah shouldn't have said what he did, but I sympathize with his frustration because he has been scapegoated when he's the only poor performer being dropped. We scrape results against very poor opposition and lie to ourselves that maybe Salah was holding us back, yet Isak contributes nothing, Gakpo, Maca, and Konate will continue to get picked, and chiesa, Rio, endo, and gomez will be ignored, and we will continue to be boring and get picked apart by mediocre opposition because we're set up to fail.
10 Dec 2025 21:23:22
Salahs main issue is things besides not being played but this gets less coverage. Just look at what ED01 has said.
11 Dec 2025 00:53:05
I'm not putting spin, just saying what it is.
Why? There could be a multitude of reasons why, but my sense is that people will have their biases and will sway towards finding one person to blame. usually the manager.
I don't think in that way tbh.
Rather, I look at where we are and where we are headed. There will ups and downs along the way and I'm more interested in how we work through this period than thinking about who we can get in to "save us".
I don't recall many, if any, examples of a mid-season managerial change resulting in long term success. other than Klopp.
In the absence of a Klopp-like figure currently unemployed waiting for their next opportunity, my mind is in the here and now and watching this team grow.