The Guest

Yeah I’m not buying this he owes the club stuff. The club knows what it is getting into when it takes kids on and invests in them. They aren’t doing it for the love of kids or the city. They want good players so they don’t have to pay transfer fees. There’s an argument that walking away at 18-19 to another club on a free would merit that response but not at his age. He’s played here for years and the club had its options before then. I know Dave said we aren’t city or United where we are rich enough to just put players on the bench to force them out but maybe that needs to happen to show players it isn’t in their power. You would only have to don it once. When Trent’s toys came out of the pram early in the season when he got subbed it showed his hand massively. He was reacting like that because the thought had probably crossed his mind that the club would start playing Bradley to get him ready for when Trent leaves and he wanted to make it as difficult as possible. Slot shit his kecks and played Trent every time he was available from then on regardless of Trent’s and Bradley’s form We should have said to him there and then get Madrid to offer 50m and you can go otherwise Bradley starts every game he’s fit ahead of you. We did a similar thing with transfer years ago. After years of getting lowballed for squad players we started refusing to let anyone go for crap offers. The result was we started to get good transfer income with the odd player going on a free. It was good business. We’ve let that go too far now and nearly every player is running their contract down. It needs to be addressed.

He’s going to fall out with Bellingham at some point over there and the result will be hilarious. I don’t think people realise how big of an ego this cunt has. I’ll just be made up to not have a lazy cunt walking around the pitch having to be carried every week. They’ve got no idea what they’re signing and it might not hit home until they play competitive games but he’s going to be a massive liability just like he was for us and he won’t have the blind faith backing him. It was mad that it took him to to put that Man United performance in before some people realised what he was actually doing.

Do you not think he’s just doing a version of himself in most of his awkward/shouty aggressive scenes though? You can name lots of actors that convey emotion on their face well. I think his best scene in it was when his lad is getting strip searched. It’s absolutely brutal and he doesn’t over sell it at all. As I said I’ll watch most things he’s in because he’s clearly got an eye for what will be good. I just don’t think he’s this amazing actor everyone says he is.

I go up and down with Graham. He’s been brilliant in some things like This is England, the Virtues and he’s great in this as well. People go well over the top about him though. I’ll tend to watch most things he’s in because they always seem to be good regardless of him. I find him unbearable in interviews, never mind getting into the sun stuff. Any accent he does is genuinely awful. From the American one to the posh one he did in Bodies. They’re all crap and sound put on because obviously they are. The worst of all though is his own accent. I wouldn’t even call it scouse. It sounds like a scouser who’s forgot how to talk trying to put a scouse accent on. It’s like John Bishop, I don’t think I’ve ever come across somebody who talks like him in real life. I don’t know if it’s because he lives somewhere else and has done for a long time (genuinely I’ve got no idea) but there’s just something very off about the way he speaks and the fact he does his own professional scouser act a lot of the time goes in hand with it. I always wonder nobody ever picks up on it. I think he’s a bit of a fraud and the kicking off/not apologising about the sun photos backs it up.

The summer is going to be carnage. We aren’t signing a left back while Robbo and Tsimikas are here. It was the least of our worries in the summer and it will be the same this time around. I reckon there’s even a possibility Trent, Virg and Salah all leave and we don’t sign anybody. Just basing off how comically we behave in the transfer market. We are going to be getting gazumped by every other club for the players we want. It’s going to get even worse because of how bad a sinking ship we will look.

People are blaming the club because both Van Dijk and Salah kicked up a stink about the club not offering them deals to stay and suggesting the club didn’t even speak to them about it. They both clearly wanted to stay earlier in the season. Van Dijk suddenly went very quiet up until recently while Salah kept talking it up in the press. Everyone was sucking Van Dijk off over it when the reality was that he had probably agreed a contract elsewhere at that point so no more need to try to force the clubs hand.

You’re missing the point. I’m saying he’s happy to completely ostracise a player to the point he’s not getting any minutes against poor opposition in the league when our forwards need some rest whether from the start or when the game has been won. He’s then happy to throw him on in a cup final. It’s not consistent because if he’s good enough to bring on then surely he’s good enough to play in these other games as well (which he clearly is). The same goes for Endo and Elliott.

Klopp literally played a team of kids in the final last year and won it. Slot had pretty much his first choice 11 bar Trent and we couldn’t create a chance for 80 minutes. Klopp also had a mostly new team last year that was growing. We’ve been shit since January started and aren’t handling any pressure at all well. Both City and Newcastle were absolutely awful in the league and that’s the only reason we haven’t already shit the bed. Slot has largely been great because of the first 5 months but if Klopp had no city to contend with and Arsenal falling over themselves every week then I think he would be handling these other competitions better than Slot. The idea that Slot could win all the trophies and people would still be moaning is daft. We’ve been awful for months and these past two results have been coming. We’ve just got to hope we can crawl over the line in the league. We are a Van Dijk injury away from this being the worst season there’s ever been and it’s because we should be out of sight.

He rebuilt the team last season and we were on for the title up until about 8 games to go. Slot has been left a very good side coming into its peak. At this time last season we were absolutely flying in all competitions and with kids winning this one. He’s fundamentally done the right thing which was to not fuck with it too much and he found a place for Gravenberch which was very Klopp-like. All this shite people talk about his style being very different to Klopps “heavy metal football” is absolute horseshit. For about the last 4 or 5 years of Klopp we generally played quite slow possession based football. I’d say Slot has been slightly more negative generally with the odd shithouse set up. If city were with us now I have no doubt we would have shit the bed the league by now.

The strangest thing about today was the chiesa sub. It was probably the most worrying thing for me. It looks like he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He hasn’t used him at any point when he should have done in all these games when he should have been giving the other players a break and letting him get some sharpness. I’m not sure if it was him making the point of he doesn’t rate him or he didn’t want him but then in a cup final he’s throwing him on. It’s took him practically all season to shit the bed and start using Elliott as well. It’s like it’s just suddenly dawned on him that playing all of our best players for 90 mins every game has had a detrimental impact and that some of these squad players can have a positive impact if you just give them a go. It’s probably unfair because he’s clearly learning on the job but had Klopp been in charge I think we would be flying in all competitions still.

The club need to give Quansah an IQ test because I don’t think he’s recoverable. It’s like he’s got brain damage.

We’ve got Elliott Endo and even Chiesa who could all have played minutes to take the pressure off. That’s ignoring rotating Salah with the other forwards more.

We’ve looked absolute shite since the turn of the year. We scraped some draws and then had a purple patch against City and these. He needs to start rotating now otherwise we are going to start seeing this type of performance every week. God knows what sort of panic stations there will be in the league if this shit continues.

Slot has absolutely flogged the players into submission. They’re all fucked because he doesn’t know how to manage a squad. Playing Salah every single minute of every game has been ridiculous. He’s going to play every minute of this game now as well despite not playing any part in it.

Quansah is a fucking bell end. Nice little jog back there allowing Barnes to have a run on him and we concede a corner.