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Music lover and maker. Computer Scientist. Football genius! Cricket Coach & Boxing fan! Liverpool FC! Always challenge the narrative & views are my own!

Liverpool, UK
Joined October 2009
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SAM G-W retweeted
We’re in Year 3 of the Post Klopp era. We won a title in Year 1 and got 5th in Year 2, after one of our boys died and signings had huge injuries (Isak, Ekitike). Iraola has very few transition “problems” to navigate here. We’ve sustained Klopp’s level (on average) and bought the league’s best striker after Haaland. I don’t see why fans are making out he’s inherited Rodgers’ mess of a squad. Get on with it.
I’m more arsed about Liverpool winning than being right about who’s in the dugout. If Iraola loses 20 games in a season, I’ll say exactly what I said about Slot. He’s had his chance. There’s your consistency. Not arsed if it’s phase 1 or phase 21.
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SAM G-W retweeted
Important win, but this isn't good enough. We won through individual brilliance and luck. Arguably the worst Palace side in years, yet they had better build up and attacking patterns than us lol. We looked like a mid-table side. We need to improve significantly.
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Replying to @lfcthijs
Player power and sentiment has finally caught up with Liverpool , the day we decided a player's rebellion is bigger than the club , that player has to go ...Not even Suarez was bigger than Rodgers and I love Suarez to bits , not Gerrard not anyone
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SAM G-W retweeted
Keep seeing people say this & it’s wrong. I’m probs see as a “Slot diehard” (fair enough). But I don’t want Liverpool to lose or Iraola to fail. “Slot diehards” mainly (1) want consistency of standards when judging Slot & Iraola and (2) don’t think Iraola has enough to merit the job & be successful in it (ie win trophies). Both are totally fair takes - I hope he proves me wrong but we have to judge him consistently. #LFC
Some of the Arne Slot diehards on here are so desperate to be vindicated they’re one Palace goal away from doing a knee slide across the living room.
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SAM G-W retweeted
Slot: 364 matches, 219 wins, 60.2% win rate. Iraola: 384 matches, 147 wins, 38.3% win rate. But hey were entertaining right.
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This only proves how embarrassing the fanbase was and how badly the players let Slot down. He took the fall for everyone's shortcomings. If we continue this way, we're heading towards becoming Man Utd. Do people think that rot will stop with Slot? It'll consume Iraola too, sadly.
Ignoring the style of play and results, I think people forget how toxic it was at the end. We had fans booing and walking out at Anfield, players liking posts calling out the manager and a dressing room not behind him. I’ve never seen that here. There was no way he couldn’t go.
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SAM G-W retweeted
Slot will be viewed very differently in hindsight when we've gone a decade without winning a PL title. Remember this tweet.
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All I'm hearing from E Reds is Team in transition Start of a project Going to take time Patience Manager getting to know the players Blah fuck blah Funny as fuck none of these excuses were afforded to the title winning manager who they hounded out of the club.
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SAM G-W retweeted
Look at the build-up, the progression, the patterns. He isolated his wingers to perfection. They didn't have to run around like headless chickens. This was the closest thing to elite football we've seen since the 21/22 Liverpool side.
Liverpool Slot 2.0
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SAM G-W retweeted
Nope. Slot asked for a DM and Hughes failed to deliver. Slot’s job as head coach was to coach and prepare the team. Recruitment, squad building, football operations and long-term planning sat above him. The club neglected the DM, CB and wide positions for years. That’s on the DOF.
Replying to @SophieJovi
Yes he did lmao. Do you seriously think the club would just buy random people for the coach ? He said it himself, he worked very close with Hughes to make the right decisions for the club and every player that was signed was vetoed by him
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SAM G-W retweeted
People don't want Iraola sacked; they are simply pushing back on the obscene narratives they were forced to swallow last year, which got a Premier League-winning manager sacked. Now, the same ones who pinned everything on one man are talking about an "Imbalanced squad," "Lack of options," and the need to rest players because, without a CF, we would be in big trouble (Remind me who played CF when Hugo tore his Achilles last season)? All the talking points about why we should be happy fighting for the top 4 were ignored last season, so pardon me if people think you are disingenuous for using them as an excuse for the manager this season.
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SAM G-W retweeted
He had to be sacked, damage was done, players gave up. But the players + management threw him under the bus entirely. He’s a top top manager
Don’t care what anyone says, sacking him was a stupid decision.
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"Stop being predictable to the opponent or you're dead" - Luis Enrique explains why the coaches who persist with one approach won't succeed in the modern game.
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That bald fraud on the touchline not training these players intensely enough and doesn’t know how to coach a press and isn’t playing Calvin Ramsay or Federico Chiesa or Wataru Endo and doesn’t know how to use Florian Wirtz and insists on playing Cody Gakpo all the time. BUCK STOPS WITH BALDY!
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If current squad is final there's a strong case the #LIV squad is BETTER v last season. OUT Salah (7 PL goals), Konaté (abysmal), Robbo (backup), Jones IN Jacquet, Tsimi, Elliot, Munoz, Araujo, Barcola + Isak/Leoni's back, Rio/Nyoni +1y, Wirtz etc 1y top club under their belt.
If this is the end of Liverpool's summer business, there's a strong case to be made that the squad has become weaker compared to last season. A proper mess of a window.
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SAM G-W retweeted
Let’s take a step back here. Last season, these guys were saying Slot spent hundreds of millions of pounds and demanded his sacking because he didn't get the best out of the talent available. Iraola has inherited that squad with all that money plus added hundreds of millions more, and yet the narrative has shifted to one that suggests he is underprepared I have stayed consistent that the players underperformed last season, and have ALOT of making up to do ( so far, the wingbacks are as bad as they were last season ) It's about time these guys did the same, because the flip-flopping is embarrassing.
If Paul Joyce is right and LFC aren’t bringing in another player this transfer window, then it’s been an absolute SHAMBLES of a window. A frigging disgrace. They’ve set Iraola up to fail and left this squad short in numerous positions. There can be NO excuses for this. You simply don’t bid for 3 wingers and then walk away when you’ve had 6 months to bring in a right winger! I’m fuming! #LFC
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Hang on didn’t you say it was slots fault for the players being bad last season? Now he’s gone these players should be better right ? But one player who’s fucked up your statement is szobo he was shit last season an still shit now once again this proves you know nothing 😂😂
Quid wants to see Macca x Grav double pivot again 😂😂😂😂 Worked brilliantly last season!!!
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🔥 NOEL GALLAGHER RIPS INTO FURY-JOSHUA: “IT’S A P!SS TAKE” IF THEY TAKE IT TO AMERICA! Speaking ringside at Itauma vs Hrgovic, the Oasis legend said he’s bored of the saga, but he still wants to see it. And it should be in England. “If it’s in America it’s a bit of a p!ss take to the English fight fans who’ve paid all the money down the years to see that fight.” He’s right. The fight should 100 percent be at Wembley Stadium. He went on to say it’s like Oasis reuniting and not playing Manchester. Then he said don’t buIIsh!t everyone and just admit it’s about the money: “Fighters want to make as much money as possible. Just say it. Nobody would care one way or the other. Don’t do the dance and buIIsh!t everybody.” Noel says the fight is too late but would still be epic if it was at Wembley: “This fight is ten years too late anyway. But if it was at Wembley it would be one of the most monumental occasions in boxing ever in this country. If it’s in Madison Square Garden, Pay Per View, whatever.” Can’t disagree with that. The location can still make this a great occasion. Not the same in the US. Noel is then asked if he’d ever have a fight. He laughs it off and says no. If he had to pick someone? The taxman! 😭
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SAM G-W retweeted
😰 "One of the biggest issues... Alisson is not the keeper he was!" 🤦‍♂️ "Kelleher is a better keeper today than Alisson is!" #LFC fan Tony Cascarino believes a lot of the club's problems stem from Alisson being past his best! 🧤😫
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SAM G-W retweeted
When players left last season or wanted to leave, all blame went to the manager. Today, somehow the manager isn’t catching any heat. I wonder why.
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