Chewie

Great interview with the opposition.. Milner https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cly0yykzkplo

Show us your workings..

Klopp back with Jimmy Milner and Adam lallana alongside. Sorted.

I have it on good authority that those 18 words (same number as titles up to when stevie was playing) in italics are actually a cipher taken from the Tomkins article using an advanced algorithm taking the first letter from every 2,374,894,126 words, ergo Tomkins, the source, may turn out to be the hero in all this

Which one is it then..

Good to see with the evidence of our own eyes that the problem has really been low block teams and nowt to do with how we play football............

Getting to the stage where they'll be thinking of creating max limits on players within zones for things like corners.. No more than 2 outfield from each side in the 6 yard box and no more than 4 from each in the pen box not including the 6 yd box. Having 10-12 players on the goal line is just a scrum

Tomorrow (27th Feb) 1200 CET

Spoiler alert

I thought at this stage we can end up on either side of the draw? The chart here shows us or spuds as possibilities on both sides of the draw https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/draws/

Reasonably high chance there'll be no Italian sides in the last 16 of the CL this year.

Rio needs to look Arne straight in the eye and tell him 'I'm your man', not least because he would even give us a different corner option.

We've won loads of turgid games in our history. Bank it. Take it. Get in and move on

'gainst Northampton?!

Here's where I'm at.. . 1. Hearing how someone speaks in pressers and then reading what they say are two different things. Only reading words in particular is riddled with confirmation bias as it's easy to project what you already think when interpreting what is said. I'm not gonna hammer him for mis-read press conferences. All that said, a big part of the role now is speaking well knowing you will be read, so he doesn't get a blank cheque. He has to inspire belief in his players and fans, and he's falling short in that. 2. Success is not linear and great managers, including our own, have had fallow periods. I'm not going to hammer him for not winning all the time. No-one does. There's the long told tale of retaining good people who make mistakes as why should someone else have the benefit of the price you paid for them to learn. Making that judgment call is critical - is this a really good person to retain who has messed up, or is this symptomatic of someone who will not make it? We don't know as no-one has seen Slot have to bounce back before. The club and powers that be really need to get this judgment call right, and I dare say that if they back him at least part of that will be because they believe that the failures this season are organisational and not just personal in terms of Slot as a coach / manager. 3. However, unless the failings are truly organisational and the collective knows exactly how to solve the puzzle in terms of squad rebuilding and signings, here's why I don't really want to risk finding out if we've got a guy we should keep who will get better for his mistakes, or if we should let him go - as above, Slot has no precedent for this, so it's as much of a roll of the dice to keep him as to let him go - the stats are truly horrible. The same points as Hodgson over 20 games, the most defeats in a row in decades, the most defeats to late goals in the history of the prem - quite simply: we look badly coached. Fed up of seeing other teams better set up to play to their strengths and exploit our weaknesses - we look unfit. Yes, pre-season was impacted horribly, but that was months ago. We should be match fit by now, and that's on coaching - expectations have been managed down. Why is it that everyone believes Chiesa is not good enough for us, that Endo is a risk, that Jones is not consistent enough? These things become self-fulfilling mantras. We are not going to build a side around any one of these as the main man, but with good coaching, man-management, and utilising at the right times each one of those - and others - can and should have contributed so much more. Make the players feel a foot taller and you'll get 6, 8 even 10 games out of them when they'll give absolutely everything. Right now, we all believe there's only about 6 players fit to put on a shirt. It's horrible. - the football is poor fare. end of. - complaining about how other lesser teams block us with their anti-football is just baffling on so many levels. so - stats, coaching, fitness, man-management, fan-management, tactics, communication - none of these make me believe we wouldn't be better off giving someone else a chance. All of this informs and increases the confirmation bias when he talks about any or all of this. anyway - that's a ramble, but in essence the only reason I could support for having him stay is if the combination of Slot, Hughes and Edwards are all completely aligned on what has gone wrong, and are all aligned on how to make it right. I can buy into leadership that stays the course, doesn't panic, doubles down and comes out better than ever. But, that's the stuff we can't see. On the basis of what we can see, change is needed

This content is not viewable to guests.

Look I'm not his biggest fan but that's not the takeaway in that moment. Our lads have given everything this half

Unbelievable

This reads to me like you've been on a call since 08.30 gathering intel and whilst it's all still fresh in your head you're telling us what you have heard will happen... ... but if I'm not mistaken, the call was completely unrelated and this is just your attempt to clear your head by being crystal clear on what this forum and its erstwhile contributors think??!!!

Elliott is so easy to happen that the fact it ain't would suggest we don't want it to and there could be any number of reasons for that. Maybe he's not a good lad in the workplace? Maybe we were happy to have him out of the dressing room? Who knows. But we haven't pushed for it and that says something.

Good interview.. Overseas lads do get a pass though on stuff that any lad from England would get if playing for us. Kelly: If you could only achieve one more thing in your career, what would it be? Florian: World Champion* *unless he means the mighty club world cup of course

Gonna be a lot of Romano over the next 48 hours if he's going to list all the players we won't sign

Yeah "take that you losers"

The prospect of playing athletico Madrid at home in the second leg of a knockout stage in March brings back bad vibes