16 Mar 2026 12:15:38
A little bit of a battle going on behind the scenes, I wouldn't expect anything happen prior to the Gala game. I suspect anything but us going through will be pretty much curtains.
I'm also told that Gordon, didn't want to do the round table b****** the other month, as he knows it was a PR stunt.
16 Mar 2026 12:38:41
Hope you're wrong on this one, Fields, but I respect you're sharing what you know, even if it goes against most of our wants.
16 Mar 2026 12:50:27
He should've been gone a long time ago, I don't know what they think is going to change by keeping him.
16 Mar 2026 12:59:18
Sounds like they're confident we will beat Gala, so in a way we don't actually have to do anything. Maybe, regardless, something may happen during the upcoming painful and pointless International break.
16 Mar 2026 12:59:55
? "If he loses his next game he's gone."
16 Mar 2026 13:01:45
Well, I'm actually glad there's some kind of battle going on ... it's just a shame it's not on the pitch!
Be interesting to see who the battle is between. How many are saying bye bye Slot, and who are saying, this is great stuff... our XG for number of passes is awesome ... let's keep him.
16 Mar 2026 13:02:28
Didn't want to take an 'L'. Any ambitious club would've sacked him in November to salvage the season.
His contract is only until 2027, so the compensation package couldn't have been massive either.
Absolutely egotistical men in the upper management!
16 Mar 2026 13:06:50
If the players find this out, put a tenner on us going out, cause they are not having him.
16 Mar 2026 13:17:56
If I hear "If he loses his next game he's gone" or anything along those lines one more time, I very well might lose my, you know what.
How many "next games" do you know? Like, the majority of us knew at the time, and have been saying for a while now, that they should have sacked him in November.
What a mess the club has made out of this!
16 Mar 2026 14:37:15
Probably optimism bias. Even some data geeks will have that every so often. They probably all thought things could only get better, so without making a change of coach, we'd work our way back into the CL places, and things could be reviewed in the summer.
Each week there's been some sort of justification for our failings, some of which, like key injuries, had credence. Eventually, though, you run out of games, and it's too late to make a change. We'd be at that point now if Chelsea and Villa weren't so poor.
16 Mar 2026 15:37:56
In fairness I'd doubt anyone sitting around that table last month wanted to be there. They all would have known it was a publicity stunt.
16 Mar 2026 17:37:49
Thanks, TheFields.
My apologies, but who is the Gordon that you mentioned in your post?