Joe Lynch

This sack is well deserved, but I need to address some Liverpool fans. Football is not a sport where you fluke things, especially at the highest levels. I see people saying Slot won the league with Klopp’s team. Do you know Klopp himself could have remained and not won the league? Football isn’t entirely 1+1. Another manager could come and meet that Klopp’s team and underperform. Let’s stop doing this, it’s not nice. You try to take away every credit from Slot because he had a bad season. Football fans have amnesia. I watched numerous Salah interviews when they were winning under Slot. There was one with Gary Neville where Salah was mentioning the difference between Klopp and Slot. He talked about the details Slot puts into the game, he talks specifically about how Slot knows when to make changes/substitutions, how he reads the game differently and knows what to do at the right time. Salah, in another interview, further talked about how Slot would sit him down and tell him places to improve and that helped him a lot. Slot also told him not to track back, several things he said about Slot, because everything was so rosy. If I search the tweets from many of you also, I would find many of such good things said about the manager. This season, it didn’t work out. In fact, my mutuals know I predicted Liverpool not to finish top 2, and it wasn’t because of Slot. I felt like when too many players join a club, it takes time for them to get their rhythm. I could have been wrong, but I was right this time. Every club goes through hard times. Real Madrid won the UCL two years and have become useless despite signing arguably the best player in the world, and assembling The Avengers. Slot had a bad season, the sack is deseved because he was disastrous, but don’t try to discredit him from all angles, that’s not sportsmanship and that’s not a fair thing to do. Winning the premier league on your first season isn’t something common, stop it guys. Wish him well as he goes. Hope the new manager does well too.