Not sure why we’ve got two threads?

Welcome Arne on your first day!

Looking forward to seeing what’s to come.

The club have tried to find a manager who is successful and who - tactically - plays a similar way to Klopp. However, he is not Klopp and I do agree with Keith when he says that anyone who comes in will be a step down. I'm pretty sure we all said the same thing when Klopp made his announcement earlier in the year too: however good Slot is / will be, he will not be at the same level simply because of how good Klopp was. Expecting more of the same, expecting things to carry on as they were is setting the guy up to fail. We need to be realistic and accept that there will be a period of transition next year and that we'll do well to maintain a top three finish.

When any new manager comes in, players will always judge him and make a decision about whether or not they want to play for him and buy into his way of doing things. What frightened me a little bit was the body language of established players like TAA, Virgil etc when Klopp came out ontot he pitch and was telling the crowd to believe in the new manager. You could see them looking at him as he was saying it and everything about their body language screamed doubt and anxiety and I did wonder as I was watching it if Klopp was actually saying that to the players more than to the crowd!

But those players have very big egos and Slot is going to have to win them over and persuade them that he is a credible successor to a guy they clearly would have walked through fire for. Virgil is clearly a leader in the dressing room or else he would not be our captain, and Slot being Dutch may help win him over. However it will be a big task to win all of them over and my worry is that even if he does get Virgil onside, there will be others there who will not want to take orders from someone they see as being beneath them. Respect is a really hard quality to define - it's one of those things you know when you see it - but he needs to get the players to respect him and that will be hard simply because he has never managed in a 'proper' league before.

I do agree with Keith's comparison to Fergie going at United - he massively overachieved with them in his final season and we know how well Klopp got the very best out of his players too (we practically had our entire youth team playing and beating Chelsea's first team in the League Cup final!) However, a key difference is that Fergie picked his successor - the Chosen One - whereas Klopp was very deliberate in having no part whatsoever in the process to find his. I'm not a huge fan of the moneyball approach to association football, but it does seem to work more often than not for FSG. Hopefully they've got this one right too and Slot will be able to get the players playing for him in a relatively short period of time!

The whole point of the multi club model.

Truth stings or as Rafa would say stated Facts. We are present and relative, competitive and ready to go again. Utd have no style other than packed defence and hurling long balls so if Ten bob goes Big Sam must be a shoe in

Oh dear 🤦‍♂️ I hardly think them not beating City is bottling it Billy 😂  They’ed  won around 8 PL games on the bounce coming up to the City game who are the best ( unfortunately)  team in the league. Perhaps I should wear the same rose tints ( yes that again 🤪 ) as you and say if what you state is true then you bottled it against us lot in those two games?

Not forgetting the Everton game. 😂 You losing plot mate.  You’ve not got back to me about that £50 Arsenal bet or you come to your senses now and stopped smokin that stuff Aussie Red does.