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It was right there for you, Cody. 

Just now, hobbes2702 said:

Hugo, CuJo, Wirtz, and Frimpong need to be starting. 

Maybe after 4 straight losses, we'll see that. 

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He reminds me of Shaqiri, even down to the weird way he runs. I never thought our offense would be this stagnant after all the purchases made in the offseason. I love Mo but it's time to sunset him. He's dropped off tremendously. 

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Slot is gone before Christmas. 11 losses in 25 games. 4 clean sheets in 26 games. You can’t spend $450M and be this bad into November; we’re lucky that we scammed half-a-dozen results in the > 80th minute to start the year or this could really be a treacherous position in the table.

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21 hours ago, Bodowned said:

Slot is gone before Christmas. 11 losses in 25 games. 4 clean sheets in 26 games. You can’t spend $450M and be this bad into November; we’re lucky that we scammed half-a-dozen results in the > 80th minute to start the year or this could really be a treacherous position in the table.

Maybe one of the worst posts on the internet.

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So we're going to sack the guy that just won us the league out of nowhere in his first year because he can't put it together with a bunch of possibly massively overpriced pieces that seem utterly clueless on how to play in his system? We're in 7th place. We're not near the relegation zone or midtable, for Christ's sake. We're also missing Alisson which is a pretty big deal. We're not winning the league again but nothing is completely fucked enough yet to decide to even think about Slot being out. 

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On 10/26/2025 at 5:11 PM, mdmost said:

So we're going to sack the guy that just won us the league out of nowhere in his first year because he can't put it together with a bunch of possibly massively overpriced pieces that seem utterly clueless on how to play in his system? We're in 7th place. We're not near the relegation zone or midtable, for Christ's sake. We're also missing Alisson which is a pretty big deal. We're not winning the league again but nothing is completely fucked enough yet to decide to even think about Slot being out. 

If we’re continue to concede goals at the pace of Leeds and Fulham through the end of November and remain on a < 50% win rate (which is where we are since the first leg vs. PSG), then what’s your position? What encouraging signs do you see that we’re about to pop out of this when every press conference is moaning about set pieces and long balls and we rinse/repeat the cycle every week? 4 clean sheets in 26 matches is half a season of bad form — it’s not some three week spell of bad luck. Mo Salah seemed to use every ounce of magic to see us through February and the team has been (literally) mid-table since his output dried up. Why is it that all of our players are world-beaters when they represent their country but they look completely disjointed when they throw on the club kit?

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6 minutes ago, Bodowned said:

If we’re continue to concede goals at the pace of Leeds and Fulham through the end of November and remain on a < 50% win rate (which is where we are since the first leg vs. PSG), then what’s your position? What encouraging signs do you see that we’re about to pop out of this when every press conference is moaning about set pieces and long balls and we rinse/repeat the cycle every week? 4 clean sheets in 26 matches is half a season of bad form — it’s not some three week spell of bad luck. Mo Salah seemed to use every ounce of magic to see us through February and the team has been (literally) mid-table since his output dried up. Why is it that all of our players are world-beaters when they represent their country but they look completely disjointed when they throw on the club kit?

The team has 5 new starters and you’re surprised they look disjointed?

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No shit. Just because you spend a shitload of money doesn't mean you're going to destroy the league. Look at Chelsea or City last year. Hell City this year. Hugo has been about the best addition. Frimpong is good but has been injured twice now. Kerkez is struggling but he's still new to the system but he could be a bust. Isak is incomplete and might be not worth what we paid but he's still getting up to speed. Grav being out hurts. He's the glue. Having to rely on Bradley to bring the ball up is going to be an issue. He's not up to the task but there's no other options. Shit takes time and we just won the f'ing league. You don't even think about sacking Slot when he gave you something so out of left field and as we've seen incredibly rare for this club. Ali is out. Konate is having bad games. The full backs are weak. Yeah it sucks to not repeat but this was possibly always in the cards. No one thought Mo would only have 2 goals right now. 

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2 minutes ago, mdmost said:

No shit. Just because you spend a shitload of money doesn't mean you're going to destroy the league. Look at Chelsea or City last year. Hell City this year. Hugo has been about the best addition. Frimpong is good but has been injured twice now. Kerkez is struggling but he's still new to the system but he could be a bust. Isak is incomplete and might be not worth what we paid but he's still getting up to speed. Grav being out hurts. He's the glue. Having to rely on Bradley to bring the ball up is going to be an issue. He's not up to the task but there's no other options. Shit takes time and we just won the f'ing league. You don't even think about sacking Slot when he gave you something so out of left field and as we've seen incredibly rare for this club. Ali is out. Konate is having bad games. The full backs are weak. Yeah it sucks to not repeat but this was possibly always in the cards. No one thought Mo would only have 2 goals right now. 

People really don’t seem to understand how important Grav is. Especially since Macca has been hurt/bad. 
We need to add another holding midfielder and a replacement for Konate imo.

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18 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

The team has 5 new starters and you’re surprised they look disjointed?

How many new players does Bournemouth have with inferior resources? 7 of their starting XI? And they’re ahead of us in the table, yeah?

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13 minutes ago, mdmost said:

No shit. Just because you spend a shitload of money doesn't mean you're going to destroy the league. Look at Chelsea or City last year. Hell City this year. Hugo has been about the best addition. Frimpong is good but has been injured twice now. Kerkez is struggling but he's still new to the system but he could be a bust. Isak is incomplete and might be not worth what we paid but he's still getting up to speed. Grav being out hurts. He's the glue. Having to rely on Bradley to bring the ball up is going to be an issue. He's not up to the task but there's no other options. Shit takes time and we just won the f'ing league. You don't even think about sacking Slot when he gave you something so out of left field and as we've seen incredibly rare for this club. Ali is out. Konate is having bad games. The full backs are weak. Yeah it sucks to not repeat but this was possibly always in the cards. No one thought Mo would only have 2 goals right now. 

Ranieri was sacked in the season after he led LEICESTER to a title. Rodgers was sacked in the season after he was a Gerrard slip/Crystal Palace choke away from an EPL title and that was after we sold our best player(s) and gave him Balotelli to work with. Eternally grateful we won a title, but it was also a horrendous season for top contenders like Arsenal and City. There have already been reports that the Slot contract extension is on hold at the moment. I’m telling you if the form of the last 25 games continues, then we’ll be somewhere between 10-12th and hard conversations will be had at a club of this size.

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22 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

People really don’t seem to understand how important Grav is. Especially since Macca has been hurt/bad. 
We need to add another holding midfielder and a replacement for Konate imo.

The midfield needs a progressive passer there, but the biggest issue is the OOP setup. The press is disorganized and 2 of the forward players do not have a pressing work rate off the ball (Gakpo/Salah) and Isak is the same when he plays. Szobo carries a ton of water. Slot has not done a man-for-man press because he prefers +1 at the back and teams have exposed it all season. It’s too easy to bypass and get in transition if you’re outnumbered and your pivot is stuck in too much space. He’s also been (willingly) using Kerkez as an inverted FB/third CB rather than a bombing/overlapping fullback which was his profile at Bournemouth and you see the results…

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14 minutes ago, Bodowned said:

How many new players does Bournemouth have with inferior resources? 7 of their starting XI? And they’re ahead of us in the table, yeah?

Holy stupid batman

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Today I learned we only won the league because City and Arsenal had bad years. It had nothing to do with scoring 86 goals while only giving up 41 and dropping 4 losses. We blew away our closest goal scoring competition by 14.

We currently are tied for 4th in goal scoring. Where we're getting killed is on defense. If he can figure out how to solve the defensive issues then we'll be in better shape. The goals will come. We've failed to score in only one match this year and that was Galatasaray. 

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1 hour ago, mdmost said:

Today I learned we only won the league because City and Arsenal had bad years. It had nothing to do with scoring 86 goals while only giving up 41 and dropping 4 losses. We blew away our closest goal scoring competition by 14.

We currently are tied for 4th in goal scoring. Where we're getting killed is on defense. If he can figure out how to solve the defensive issues then we'll be in better shape. The goals will come. We've failed to score in only one match this year and that was Galatasaray. 

Yes, we absolutely need to fix the defensive issues but he has to have a long look in the mirror on his tactical setup & personnel decisions in order to do that…29 goals conceded from our last 19 EPL matches is a 58-goal pace over a full season. That is comfortably a bottom half of the table defensive record in any EPL year you look at. My entire point here is that we cannot stay the course; there needs to be fundamental change to a system that hasn’t worked consistently since February. He showed a willingness to deviate the shape against Frankfurt, but will he try again? Tomorrow will be interesting. We got it wrong against Palace in the first half a couple of weeks ago before course-correcting for a solid second half performance. I would think Glasner fields a strong lineup.

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