16 Mar 2026 12:12:42
Seriously, what is the argument for keeping Slot until the end of the season? I understand that bringing someone else in now doesn't guarantee we'll get top 4, but what I can guarantee is, if we keep him and the performances continue in the same way, we've got no chance of getting top 4. Surely it's a risk worth taking!
16 Mar 2026 12:30:52
Well, according to a certain poster in particular, it's all the players' fault. So sell the squad, including the players Slot bought, and let him waste more money.
16 Mar 2026 12:31:57
For me, keeping Slot is more of a gamble than bringing in an interim at this point.
16 Mar 2026 13:31:30
Slot didn't buy the players, Richard Hughes did.
Either way, though, there are some good players in there. They generally don't suit the system Arne is choosing, haven't found their form, or have been injured, which partly explains what we've seen for most of the season.
A problem we have is that it's unlikely a new coach will play a system that suits some of the new buys either, so it's likely a few of them will need to be sold on at a loss either this summer or next.
It's been a terrible season all round. The emergence of Rio is the only silver lining.
16 Mar 2026 14:01:59
@JK_RED, Many of us wanted Slot out last Nov; others even earlier, but what can one do when his handlers told us to sit down and suck it up until now, when things have truly become untenable. I don't think he will go, cos to me, that window has passed and it was due to Hughes and Edwards not wanting to pull the trigger for reasons only they can say. Just my take.
@Over, Slot got the players he wanted and we got some of the best players in their positions on the market to come in for him to work with.
Slot wanted them and Hughes got them at a premium, I might add.
Slot not knowing what to do with them cos his actual preferred system is a disaster and a half is all on him, and no amount of gaslighting (not directed at you, of course) by anyone is gonna save this geezer from carrying that can. Not now. Not ever.
16 Mar 2026 14:02:47
So, Slot had no say? There is no way that happened.
16 Mar 2026 14:53:21
Not in a million years, Endo3.
16 Mar 2026 16:27:39
You'd hope Arne had a say. I'm just saying the buying and selling and contracts is done by Hughes. It's known that Arne wanted Diaz to stay, but was overruled and he was sold. It's also said he didn't want Chiesa but was overruled. There's rumours he didn't want Mo to stay either, but again was overruled on the contract front. On this last one it's a rumour only, whereas the other two are widely known.
That says to me that yes, he's consulted, but final decision is Hughes and maybe others like Edwards, depending on what the values of the deals are.
The ones that puzzle me most are Wirtz, Frimpong and Kerkez. Arne surely had input there, but doesn't seem to know how to use them, and they look like square pegs in round holes.
16 Mar 2026 17:01:25
Overkill, Slot was overruled cos Diaz wanted to go and made a big stink about it for two years prior, and he was not getting a new contract. So why keep a player who doesn't wanna stay? Come on, this was even happening when Klopp was here in his final season. Indeed, Chiesa was signed without his agreement, but that's on Hughes messing up and being unable to close deals for the players we did want.
As for Mo, you said it's a rumour, so we can leave that. Look, at the end of the day, the manager has a say, cos he works with the DOF and the recruitment team, just like it happened with Klopp. This is nothing new.
16 Mar 2026 17:09:41
Wirtz, to me, always seemed strange. I'm not saying I don't think he'll be a top player for us over the next few years, especially when he gets some pace and power around him. It just didn't seem like we needed him.
It just seemed to be a case of "oh, there's a top player on the market who's actually interested in signing, let's go all in to get him." When maybe the money could have been better spent elsewhere.