Even Hitler's Germany did not prevent athletes and officials from entering the country to take part in the 1936 Olympics.
This is pristine racism and @FIFAcom stands disgraced for allowing Trump to disfigure the beautiful game in this way.
LFC should target 2 elite wingers and a really good centre forward. Sell Gakpo to fund better quality. Count Wirtz as a front 3 option, but as a consequence add another midfielder.
Additionally, sell MacAllister and add a further very physical midfielder who can play as a 6.
Buy a first choice right back , and add a very tall physical premier league centre back.
Retain Jones and everyone else . Bar Endo and Chiesa.
So …
3 forwards
2 midfielders
2 defenders
You have a right to be foolish, I wouldn’t judge you for that. I have been foolish long enough to learn not to condemn the fool. But you have no right to be evil, and to support a continuation of Nigeria in its current form, is to be complicit in the evil that it is..
I sometimes believe that the abduction at Oyo School was orchestrated by the Oyo State Government to blackmail President Tinubu.
- Peter Ayodele Fayose, Former Ekiti State Governor, alleged
Everything these journalists are saying about Slot the fans online already said them in like November. Doesn’t use youth players, boring football, no tactical progression etc Which makes all that talk of “mitigating circumstances” much more annoying
If Xabi Alonso was passed due to demands of greater footballing control I hope Iraola pushes for a bigger control too. It’s never good to have all power in Edwards/Hughes hands. Don’t trust them. A balance is always important.
Liverpool owners are meant to be patient — Arne Slot’s sacking is brutal
If FSG acted on fan pressure, it doesn’t augur well for whoever succeeds a head coach who won the league just a year ago and had plenty of problems to deal with
✍️ Martin Samuel
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Liverpool need to rethink their executive approach to running the club. What made them so successful under Jurgen Klopp was that he was the manager, not the head coach.
I expect that if Iraola (or whoever for that matter) comes in as head coach, many of the same issues will creep back in.
At the end of the day, Slot was FSG's yes man and this looks to me like making him the fall guy. Where is the accountability for Hughes for the poorly constructed rebuild that cost £460m only to leave several key profiles missing? Edwards spent much of the last 18 months planning a multi-club model that was then scrapped. Is he now focusing on LFC or working on another FSG blueprint for something without direct benefits for this club?
Yes, Slot was out of his depth and his philosophy just doesn't align with what the fanbase wants on the football pitch. However, will appointing another head coach come with different results in the long term if the executives he must answer to aren't exactly covering themselves in glory?
I'm not sure.
Andoni Iraola, now set to stay at Rayo Vallecano despite Leeds United job talks. ⚪️⛔️ #LUFC
Arne Slot on Leeds links: “I’ve read the news but I haven’t seen anything on my phone. What will I do when a message comes in from Leeds? Open the message”, tells @ESPNNL.
🥇 | @davidlynchlfc: “There were other missteps in press conferences, too, including the bizarre refusal to praise fringe players, most notably Calvin Ramsay.
“Nobody expected Klopp’s successor to possess the same level of charisma, but that did not excuse missing the open goal of keeping a player you might need feeling involved and important.
“And it is why it was hard to imagine Slot ever being able to rock up at Nottingham Forest and win with Joe Gomez and Bobby Clark starting in central midfield, as his predecessor once did.”
During a period we were seeking to qualify for the Champions league, Slot was talking about signing players in the next season. What sort of madness was that?
[🟢] NEW: Academy staff were privately sharing frustation that Arne Slot did not seem to be immersing himself in all things Liverpool, rarely paying attention to goings-on there.
And it could be argued that this attitude was reflected in the training schedule he implemented, frequent holidays, and the fact his family remained in the Netherlands.
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Once again, Liverpool has thrown various journalists' credibility under the bus.
Decision to dispense with Slot would have been made quite some time ago. Yet club fed pack of lies to the journalists (i.e. that Slot would stay), with many gullibly reporting it.
Saw all kinds of excuses for Slot’s off-ball coaching this season. It shows people can come up with excuses for anything if they try hard enough. You cannot simultaneously be poor at coaching a high press, mid-block, defending transitions & defending set-pieces which is what that Liverpool run vs Chelsea, Man Utd & Aston Villa perfectly summarised for the whole season. There is simply no excuse for that which relates to how the squad has been compiled. It is a byproduct of not treating defending seriously enough on the training ground.