You’re worse than me. That’s great. Embarrassed to win a PL.
Arne Slot | manager
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You shouldn't be embarrassed to win it for sure, a title win is a title win and it's all good. But it's fine to admit it when the league is poor, like it has been this year, was when Leicester won it, or as it was for our last title win. As has been said, your title win this year is in quite a few ways reminiscent of that 2013 one.
In honesty I think the league was poorer in 2019-20 when Liverpool were the only team in the title race for pretty much the whole season an were well clear of everyone else by the end of February, I think they were 25 points clear when Covid halted the season after 25 of 26 games.
Klopp must be fuming.
Worked so hard at Liverpool and only had one title to show for it, jacked it in a season too early.
Then this bald fraud turns up, copies Klopps homework and does little else, and he's heralded as a genius
Klopp should have stayed for one more season, he would have added this one to his legacy.
Worked so hard at Liverpool and only had one title to show for it, jacked it in a season too early.
Then this bald fraud turns up, copies Klopps homework and does little else, and he's heralded as a genius
Klopp should have stayed for one more season, he would have added this one to his legacy.
I mean, Klopp got lucky in the first place with that infinite money glitch from Coutinho's sale.Klopp must be fuming.
Worked so hard at Liverpool and only had one title to show for it, jacked it in a season too early.
Then this bald fraud turns up, copies Klopps homework and does little else, and he's heralded as a genius
Klopp should have stayed for one more season, he would have added this one to his legacy.
This is the only consolation I can find in them feckers wining the PL. Imagine the bullshit media nonsense claiming Klopp to be the greatest ever if he was lifting the trophy on Sunday.Klopp must be fuming.
Worked so hard at Liverpool and only had one title to show for it, jacked it in a season too early.
Then this bald fraud turns up, copies Klopps homework and does little else, and he's heralded as a genius
Klopp should have stayed for one more season, he would have added this one to his legacy.
Best team wins the league. They were the best team.
Hopefully their last one for a long while, but I say that purely in hope rather than expectation
Hopefully their last one for a long while, but I say that purely in hope rather than expectation
I don’t understand the logic of calling Slot a fraud or how Liverpool should be embarrassed to win the title?
In his first season he’s run away with the title - peak moneybags Chelsea aside, who else has done that since the Premier League was founded?
And the Leicester comparisons are a nonsense too. Leicester won the league with 81 points. Liverpool already have 79 with five games left to go.
If Slot is a fraud then I don’t know what that makes the other 19 others currently managing in the Prem. I can probably take a guess as to what it makes Ten Haag…
In his first season he’s run away with the title - peak moneybags Chelsea aside, who else has done that since the Premier League was founded?
And the Leicester comparisons are a nonsense too. Leicester won the league with 81 points. Liverpool already have 79 with five games left to go.
If Slot is a fraud then I don’t know what that makes the other 19 others currently managing in the Prem. I can probably take a guess as to what it makes Ten Haag…
Yeah mate I think most people are just joking, and Ten Hag is hardly Mr popular on here either.
Conte in 2017 with a quite poor Chelsea... Pellegrini in 2014 with City.
Liverpool were 25 points clear of City when covid halted the season, but City actually had more points than Arsenal did at the equivalent stage of this season and finished with more than Arsenal can get this season.
The newly promoted sides not showing up (again) this year has skewed things a bit, so it might look like the chasers are a bit stronger in terms of points won, but they're simply just ahead of a really poor batch of relegated sides.
In 2019/20, only one of the top 17 won every point available against the bottom three (Burnley, weirdly enough). Two have already confirmed that status this season (Liverpool and Newcastle), and another four are on track to do so (Arsenal, City, Forest and Brentford).
Including Burnley, seven teams won over three quarters of the points available against the relegated sides in 19/20. That number is guaranteed to be 10 this season.
12 teams won over two thirds of the points available against the relegated sides in 2019/20, that number currently sits at 13 this season and could be as high as 15.
Every single team in the top 17 has won over half of the points available against the bottom three this season, and only 13 did so in 2019/20. If you drop that to half or more, we're guaranteed to have at least 16 teams, but it'll stay at 17 if Everton can beat one of Ipswich or Southampton. It was 15 teams in 2019/20, with both Leicester and Newcastle only winning 44% of the available points.
Perhaps most notably, only one team in the top 17 has dropped points against every relegated side this season (Brighton, although they've remained unbeaten), and it'll remain that way if West Ham and Everton both beat Ipswich. Three sides did so in 2019/20 (Arsenal, Spurs and Leicester).
226 points have been won by the top 17 against the relegated sides so far this season, 12 more than were won in 2019/20, and there are still another 24 up for grabs.
They've quite simply failed to make a dent in the league and have essentially guaranteed every other team at least 10 extra points.
Conte in 2017 was still Chelsea firing at full moneybags. City were overtaking them, but they still spent around £120m over the summer window, which wasn’t far off.
I’ll give you Pellegrini though. Would it be a diss to call him the most successful caretaker manager ever?
It would just be wrong. If Pellegrini is considered a caretaker than you have to view Jupp Heynckes as a caretaker as well and he won a treble while taking care of Bayern until Guardiola took over there.
Don’t worry, I was being facetious; Pellegrini I don’t believe was a caretaker for three years even if he very much was a placeholder.
But my point still stands: both Pellegrini and Heynckes were placeholders before Pep (or potentially another top choice) and Heynckes was more successful
They've equalled our league haul but at least there's no asterisk next to our 20 
I was a UTD fan growing up in the 80s. Liverpool were the best team in Europe through my childhood. Never in my wildest dreams did I think UTD would win one or two titles, let alone take them over in my life time. What ever happens from now on, that is something that can never be taken from me. Thank you Mr Ferguson for making my 20s the best ever!They've equalled our league haul but at least there's no asterisk next to our 20
It has been a poor season at both ends of the table.
No real title race, no relegation battle, and personally Utd stinking up the place worse than I ever thought possible.
Only saving grace from my point of view is teams like Forest, Villa doing so well that CL looks very possible with just 4 games left.
Utd, hopefully winning the Europa, will cleanse the taste this season has left in my mouth. Then win the CL next year as Dippers finish 6th.
Okay, I can dream.
No real title race, no relegation battle, and personally Utd stinking up the place worse than I ever thought possible.
Only saving grace from my point of view is teams like Forest, Villa doing so well that CL looks very possible with just 4 games left.
Utd, hopefully winning the Europa, will cleanse the taste this season has left in my mouth. Then win the CL next year as Dippers finish 6th.
Okay, I can dream.
I suppose as Slot's biggest fan on here, I will be terminated.
I had a good run.
I had a good run.
Still shit
Put ETH to shame
You can say that for any manager who decides to abandon basic footballing principles such as maintaining a good defensive shape and pragmatism
Dutch managers have by and large had a poor record in the league. Trust these cnuts to hit the jaackpot
Fair play. Congrats Liverpool. Glad it wasn't Arsenal.
Those posture pics seems like a decade ago.
I suppose the ETH debate is settled.
I suppose the ETH debate is settled.
Well earned the title, you aren't responsible for United's clown show
All the twats been banned yet? Yes, they’re all shit.
It just feels so nauseating that we got the best manager from Dutch league at the time and he turned out to be a disaster whereas these get Slot and win the league title. Its so difficult to comprehend. Sometimes luck plays a huge role and we have had massive bad luck when it comes to recruitment - both players and management.
What was Slot’s record like in the Dutch league compared to ETH? Was it widely accepted rhat ETH was better? Was ETH seen as a Pep and Slot like a Maresca? I need an analogy for how they were rated before this season.
Several managers succeed and fail in equal measure depending on circumstances of a club suiting them or not, there are too many factors outside the really elite few managers who bend things to their will. Not sure Slot is that calibre yet and Ten Hag would have had a decent chance of winning the league with Liverpool I think if he'd joined after Ajax. Klopp had left them in really great shape, and their recruitment structure is top class.
Didn't they choose him instead of Amorim, because they felt Amorim doesn't fit?
Kind of dissappointed. Not even more posts than the rest combined. I will repent by waxing the heads of my Arne action figures.It's not looking good for you and a few others.
Maybe Pool can send him back to Feyenoord now.
He basically showed up, told them keep doing what you're doing and put his feet up for 8 months. Not exactly hitting the jackpot
At some point he'll need to build his own team and system. Let's see if he's more than a chancer then
When's the last time a bald manager other than Pep won the league?
I hope you will be terminated too after seeing your last posts here.
I hope admin will stop these cnuts coming here to gloat.
A league is a league and they count the same no matter how strong or poor the league was throughout the season. With Klopp they challenged Manchester City quite a few times and came really close but they aren't getting thropies for that.
But they have not been doing what they did under KloppHe basically showed up, told them keep doing what you're doing and put his feet up for 8 months. Not exactly hitting the jackpot
At some point he'll need to build his own team and system. Let's see if he's more than a chancer then
Yes, he was their third choice. First choice obviously was Xabi Alonso but he decided to stay at Leverkusen. Amorim was their second choice but Liverpool's management decided against eventually..
Erik ten Hag had the best Ajax squad since 1995. Part of that is obviously due to his coaching, but Frenkie de Jong, an absolutely beastly De Ligt, Tadic and Ziyech were absolutely amazing.
Farioli winning the league with Ajax this year is a far more impressive feat. And honestly, winning the league with Feyenoord is also more impressive domesticly.
Nothing comes close to that amazing CL run Ten Hag had though. Even if he fecked up massively against Spurs by not just seeing the game out while 3 goals up in the tie with 45 minutes to play.
Bottomline, in my very (VERY) biased opinion Slot is better, because he is more adeptable than Ten Hag and a far better communicator.
And he's more bald.