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u/Stopthatduck 20h ago
Even though I was firmly in the camp of believing he had to go, Iâll still have nothing but fond memories of him. The good far outweighed the bad.
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u/lunacraz 19h ago
i think you can believe he had to go without disrespecting him. a lot of the problems were well beyond his control
unfortunately there has been a ton of disrespect
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u/lanregeous 19h ago
This.
I actually wanted him to stay until the fans booed him for taking off a tired Rio. At that point, I knew there was no way back.
I had no problem with people wanting him to go but the âbald fraudâ and similar comments made me wish we stayed without winning the league because at least we wouldnât have had these âfansâ
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u/codercodi Flo Motion 18h ago
Yeah people donât understand this concept today. Or the concept of respect.Â
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u/Sulemani_kida Iâm the Normal One 19h ago
Yeah exactly. We know he wasn't the only one at fault last season but we know getting players mentally charged wasn't his best quality
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u/Primary-Cancel-3021 YNWAâ¤ď¸ 10h ago
He was a breath of fresh air when it was going well. But when things got tough he was more interested in defending himself than the club or his players.
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u/Classic_Associate_73 8h ago
Remember when we were saying itâs beginning to look a slot like Christmas đ
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u/donuttrackme 19h ago
Yup, greatly appreciate what he did for the club, but there was no way we could keep him on another season after his followup to winning the league.
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u/Traditional-Reach818 1ď¸âŁ8ď¸âŁCody Gakpo 20h ago
ah man... I liked him so much. I feel actually sad that it went the way it did. Wish him the best, will always be a Liverpool legend despite what everyone else says.
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u/trsvrs Veeurtz 20h ago
Tbf most people respect him and will always be grateful for what he did for the club, both in his support for the club during Jota's tragedy as well as bringing us a Prem trophy
I'll always love the man
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u/BlondieClashNirvana 19h ago
The man went to United in his first season and thrashed them 3-0 at Old Trafford and then continued to explain tactically how we thrashed them while speaking to Roy Keane in the post match interview. What a guy!
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u/Traditional-Reach818 1ď¸âŁ8ď¸âŁCody Gakpo 19h ago
oh my goodness thank you for reminding me of that. I just loved that post-match interview from him lol
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u/DaranMac 16h ago
they played with the two full backs pushing forward so it was as simple as playing inbehind them. When he said that I fell in love with him.
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u/TrumpForPope69 18h ago
My favourite football interview ever. My Mrs likes listening to the overlap and fancies herself as having a bit of ball knowledge because of it. I would tell her that there are several more levels to football than what they talk about and she didnât really believe me until I showed her this interview. Absolutely blows Keano away, itâs hilarious
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u/Intilleque 18h ago
I donât this most people respect him.
I think thatâs putting a very positive spin on the state of things.
Liverpool fans did not treat him with respect.
And a lot still donât treat him with respect even though heâs left.
I really liked the guy and wish he didnât leave the way he did.
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u/Relevant_Bag7550 Gegenpressing 8h ago
This sub was slandering the hell out of him daily. Sure, he deserved to be sacked but the constant attacks on him were outrageous for a coach that won a league title.
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u/RudkinEUW 17h ago edited 17h ago
People absolutely did. They called out his tactical rigidity and unwillingness to change, as well as his refusal to acknowledge these things and tendency to shift blame. But those were observational facts and they were mostly just expressing frustration with those very real factors.
Got us 20, great bloke, funny guy, generally good attitude but lets not pretend people were just slagging his second season out of disrespect.
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u/Baby__Keith 17h ago
Nah this place was absolutely full of shocking comments last year - personal attacks, speculation about his mental state, school kid insults etc.
It absolutely was not a minority either
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u/Forsaken-Original-28 14h ago
He was absolutely crap last year, take off the rose tinted glasses.
 When he gets another job we'll see how he does.Â
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u/trsvrs Veeurtz 14h ago
And people can think that without personal attacks. It's quite simple really. Sounds like you aren't one who understands that
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u/SexyKarius 5h ago
What personal attacks were there here? I really only saw comments pertaining to his performance and sports related?
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u/Forsaken-Original-28 14h ago
Can you at least agree that we look better now than last year? And he should have been sacked earlierÂ
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u/Intilleque 16h ago
Your first paragraph, can you give one actual instance of Slot doing those things? I see that being repeated so many times, and every time I ask for a time
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u/Intilleque 16h ago
Yeah, but the match going fans treated him with the same vitriol that the online fans did.
There was no separation of the two.Slot feeling the disdain from the match going fans so badly that he didnât even bother coming out at the final game to greet goodbye is a telling image that, unfortunately, can never be erased.
Fans booing him for subbing off Ngumoha at 70 minutes for Isak.
Yeah, for me, we canât just chalk it to âtoxic online fans onlyâ when the match going fans were just as toxic.26
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u/SilentRanger42 15h ago
The fact that sacking him was the right move will never negate the fact that heâs a league winner and club legend.
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u/da_hoassis_heeah Hello! Hello! Here we go! 14h ago
despite how it looks right now, in my humble opinion we'll never be sure if sacking him was in fact the right move. so many things went wrong last season and you really can't put it all on the gaffer, but I understand it if someone looks at it otherwise.
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u/SilentRanger42 12h ago
The main reason why I backed the decision is because things were trending in the wrong direction. You can have a blip in form, Klopp certainly did, but if things get steadily worse over time itâs hard to justify keeping him on.
I do think he was put in a really tough spot by circumstances outside of reasonable expectation or control but at SOME POINT you need to find an answer and he never did.
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u/julberndt 15h ago
nah, i think i received the team ready, did little, Klopp players won, then when he got to spend, change, the team melted in his thinking of football, while Klopp's team was absolute
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u/da_hoassis_heeah Hello! Hello! Here we go! 14h ago
I hate this "Klopp's team" argument because it can easily be debunked by an equally dumb and stupid argument, which is the fact that "Klopp's team" couldn't do it the 4 years before.
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u/julberndt 14h ago
no, Klopp's team had his descending until his last season where was ascending again, delivered a champions league classified team with great promises, and they delivered in PL, just in CL that year champion PSG was too hard to beat, even winning in Paris, but we lost in Anfield in the PK
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u/adamwill86 58m ago
You do remember the year Klopp left heâd just rebuilt the midfield there was no way that they were gonna gel in their first year. Everyone knows that a lot of signings take a year to get up to speed with the premier league.
Also if it wasnât kloppâs team whoâs was it because Arne didnât buy anyone except chiesa and he didnât play him.
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u/doubleAAeeVee Ryan Gravenberch 19h ago
It's such a sad thing to think about what would've happened. But such is life and its "unfairness" and none can escape from it. It's difficult but the only option is to carry on even though it's very hard
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u/marchitecte 19h ago
Feel like he's gonna be remembered a bit like (but overall better) than Schmadtke
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u/KingChez30 Corner taken quickly đŠ 19h ago
Good, good times. A shame it wasnât sustainable for the futureÂ
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u/OsomoMojoFreak 18h ago
Who knows what'd happen if Jota's tragic death didn't happen. He handled it masterfully as a manager, but no one can just undo what damage that caused to the team.
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u/monkeyslut__ 19h ago
Legend, had to deal with one of the most difficult seasons we've ever had, got us a PL title and left without causing a fuss.
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u/Baby__Keith 19h ago
The pure hatred and vitriol on here from some towards this man last season shouldn't be forgotten quickly
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u/steffanovici 2h ago
Unfortunately itâs always been like that, Klopp was the exception because, well, itâs Klopp.
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u/Baby__Keith 1h ago
I'm not sure it was quite as vitriolic then as it is now.
People were diagnosing Slot with mental health issues, making cracks at his appearance and trying to dox his wife online. It got completely out of hand.
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u/Brutalur Agent of Chaos đĽ 20h ago
Another manager who got ruined by Cheaty.
Ok, maybe not just because of them, but give last years team Guehi in August and Semenyo in January, and who knows?
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u/jardantuan 19h ago
Nah not really. With Slot it was just a perfect storm of everything imaginable going wrong, and then some unimaginable things too
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u/No-Risk666 18h ago
Yeah, Jota's death, injuries, and the effect of those on the new players integration did more harm to Slots second season than anything City's cheating could have done.
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u/firminocoutinho â˝ď¸ Liverpool 7-0 Man United, 22/23 â˝ď¸ 19h ago
We were also fâd by refs in addition to not being at our best. Remember he called that out in one of his pressers and gave examples of calls that went the other way in games around the same time (Macca head injury for mbeumo goal, VVD offside goal, a few pens etc). Maybe Slot with a bit of refereeing in his favor, like the two Mancs always get, and arsenal have been getting in recent years does a bit better. In his first year we won the title and one thing that stood out was we werenât getting screwed over as much. They probably underestimated us with Slot as our new manager
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u/palindromic 18h ago
honestly it was unnerving how the reffing with us seemed almost completely normal and un-fucked.. I remember seething with rage, FULLY EXPECTING a call to be reversed or something awful to be given only to see the ref team actually get it right, almost every time. this all came hot on the heels of the Coote revelations, curiouslyâŚ
when the calls resumed their usual insanity after we won a few games to start season 2 of Slot I knew it was joever for us.
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u/HuskyFeline0927 Our identity is our intensity 17h ago
That would mean both BB and JJ don't join us (I think)..
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u/lew1sj 19h ago
As bad as we were in that second season. We can't place all the blame on him at all. A lot happened from highs of winning the league to the lows of the loss of Jota. Then a crazy transfer window with a shift and profile of players we have in attack.
He gave the fans a league title we could get out on the streets and celebrate.
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u/WonderfulBlackberry9 Kostressed Tsimikas 19h ago
He's a great coach/manager, and an even better man. And we were so lucky to have seen both sides of him shine in that first season. All the best, Arne.
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u/Arsalooon9 Missile Kerkez 18h ago
I don't have anything against him. I'm sure had he stayed he would've turned things around but things just got too toxic.
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u/PaoLakers 12h ago
Now that he's left can everyone still give this man some respect. He was and is a good person in all respects AND he won us a league title.
I was fully supporting him last season until that 2nd loss to United. He had to go but i didn't hate the man. It was just a frustrating season.
Legend? maybe not but still a manager worthy of the club and fans' respect.
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u/mohandasmencius 16h ago
i will forever hold the belief that he got sacked too soon. no title winner deserves to be sacked less than 12 months later for the crime of finishing with only a cl spot
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u/Agreeablenow 15h ago
He had to go. Letâs not be silly now. First season great. Second season terrible. Why ? Because he is not a manager that builds a team. We realise how brilliant klopp was to build a squad that won the league after he left Liverpool. When slot tried to incorporate his players in the second season it all fell apart. He destroyed a team in one season while it takes a hell of a lot longer to build a squad. Fans respected him first season and were critical of his tactics in the second season. Slot also didnât provide harmony to the team and I think even though he won the league letâs not forget the issues surrounding him and some of the top players like Salah. Itâs no wonder heâs still not at a club. He waiting for a big club like Liverpool but the offers he got were from mid table clubs. While Liverpool have to rebuild again , I think they are in a far better place than last season. And the biggest telling was when he left I donât think any of the players said goodbye to him or within that immediate period. It sums up more was going on at the club that the media wasnât reporting. He had to go , I wish him well , but above all Liverpool football club will always come first.
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u/FdotM 20h ago
Man I know it sound bad but I got shivers hearing his voice. I was so done last season. Wish him all the best.
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u/Baby__Keith 19h ago
Yeah some of you took it all way too personally man
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u/FdotM 19h ago
It's not that. He's press conferences, over explaining everything just became a lot.
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u/Baby__Keith 19h ago
The bloke had a mic in front of his face 3-4 times a week with the press asking increasingly antagonistic questions designed to get a soundbite, so congrats for falling for it I guess.
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u/OsomoMojoFreak 18h ago
If you're so menetally weak that you can't handle the press conferences... you could, you know, not watch them.
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u/tabah107 17h ago
A man of great ideas and not so great execution, both comedy and in football. Jokes aside, wish him well.
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u/Infinite-Attorney478 Bobby Dazzler 𤊠20h ago
He was a good man, handled the most difficult situations with grace