Premier League 26/27

I was referring to the charge that Slot never won the league as it was 'Klopp's team', which kept getting repeated by absolute idiots despite it (or perhaps because of it) being absolutely idiotic 

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Leuth said:

I was referring to the charge that Slot never won the league as it was 'Klopp's team', which kept getting repeated by absolute idiots despite it (or perhaps because of it) being absolutely idiotic 

I get why people say it was Klopp's team though, as that summer Liverpool didn't sign anyone (only Chiesa) and Slot had to make do with what was already there. However i don't think Slot is some managerial genius and Liverpool suddenly ran away with the league because of him.

Ultimately it was basically because of an all timer season from Salah (29 goals + 18 assists) that won it. It will be a long time before we see those numbers from 1 player again.

Very harsh to suggest they won the League based purely on Salah. Lots of players have exceptional individual seasons and it doesn't always translate to title wins.

If you listen to anyone who has won the Premier League they will tell you how difficult it is to win. Slot won it on his first season, managing a transition from an all time great manager, and without signing a single first team player. Clubs are routinely spending hundreds of millions a season to try and compete in the top half and Slot won a title spending nothing. 

I actually think it was a very under rated achievement. Granted the second season was poor but in the same way winning one title doesn't make him an all time great, one poor season doesn't make him a buffoon like some Liverpool fans seem to suggest.

I loved Klopp and clearly his record stacks up better than Slot's overall but let's not forget they both won the same amount of league titles. Klopp had Salah, Van Dijk, Robertson etc at their peak and still only got it over the line once.

How long until Fat Frank is sacked 

MrBurns said:

How long until Fat Frank is sacked 

Very weird summer transfer window for them, feel like they brought in a load of young players for the future but not a lot of players for "right now" to improve them. 

Probably hoping for a miracle to stay up and if not they take the money, pocket a lot of it and hope they're younger players get them up again next year

The problem is, even if they've had the conversation and are genuinely okay with going down because they believe they'll come back stronger next season with the experience, if Coventry start getting pumped every week, it’ll become toxic. At that point, Lampard will probably have to go regardless.

I quite like Haaland telling Foden to just get off the pitch! 

fenaddick said:

Brainless from Foden but Fernandes is lucky not to be booked at least

Quite.
I don’t see how Fernandes got nothing for that.

As a neutral it should've been a yellow for Fernandez and Red for Foden.

SELR_addicks said:

Karim_myBagheri said:

Listening on the radio but is it the case where the ref could of easily said FFS lads what are you doing? And book them both for being idiots. 

In the age of VAR Foden has to go for that. We can't just start allowing players to kick out at opponents because 'it's a derby'. 

Nothing to do with VAR ?
Retaliation kicks into the gut have always been red cards.
Red and Yellow cards were introduced into the English domestic game in 1976 before that it was the fickle finger of fate pointing to the dressing room for kicks in the gut etc.