Liverpool are \u2018absolute s***e\u2019 and now in a \u2018transition season\u2019 as Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah are heavily criticised in today\u2019s Mailbox.<\/p>\n
Plus, how dare Ruben Amorim lead Man Utd to three wins on the bounce\u2026who does he think he is?\u00a0Senne Lammens is the cure at Old Trafford, while Liverpool are getting way too much Fergie time.<\/p>\n
Send your thoughts to theeditor@football365.com<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Liverpool\u00a0are absolute s***e<\/strong><\/p>\n I actually don\u2019t know what to say after 76 minutes. We are absolute shite<\/strong><\/a>. I just can\u2019t believe what I\u2019m watching.<\/p>\n Even if Gakpo had got the penalty and it had become 1-1 i still think we would have lost this game. This lot are totally devoid of any fight. Only Szoboslai and Jones have looked good today. The rest of them have been various shades of crap. Jones and Gravenberch both being injured really spells trouble.<\/p>\n I wrote after Frankfurt to point out that Slot needed to hold his nerve and play the best players. Bringing Salah back in, who has been totally anonymous tonight, was a massive fail. If I were Chiesa I\u2019d be looking for a way out come January and who could blame him.<\/p>\n Mamardashvili might be a decent shot stopper but he literally dived out of the way of the 1 on 1 whilst staying on his line and the penalty was poor. I suspect most Liverpool fans were casting very envious glances at Kelleher tonight. Mama is not helped by everyone passing to his right foot when he\u2019s left footed. But that makes sense because this group looked tonight like they\u2019d never met one another. Just 11 guys pulled together for a match last minute.<\/p>\n A lot of criticism will deservedly be levelled at Slot. Mo, Kerkez and others were all poor but he chose the team and, astoundingly, chose to leave Mo on the pitch when he made his subs. He also somehow saw that joke first half and waited until 60 minutes and 3-1 down to make changes.<\/p>\n Credit to Brentford and Henderson. We were made to look pathetic tonight and they didn\u2019t low block. They didn\u2019t need to to absolutely dominate us.<\/p>\n Looking at the fixture list no game looks certain in the next month. 4 more losses in a row (Palace, Villa, Madrid and Man City up next) doesn\u2019t see unrealistic right now and Slot might end up sacked which would be kind of wild after last season. \u00a0<\/p>\n Look, this run is absolutely s***e , exactly like City\u2019s last year. And we\u2019ll get out of it at some point<\/strong><\/a>, just like they did. It\u2019d be nice if some point was before December mind you.<\/p>\n Spending hundreds of millions on attackers,\u00a0with no idea how to fit them all together,\u00a0has turned out not to work that well. I mean, who knew? Slot\u2019s a bright bloke though, he\u2019ll figure it out.<\/p>\n I\u2019m very relaxed about it all though. Why you ask? Because we won the f*****g league\u00a0only last year! This is scarcely a decade long slump to put us all into a massive depression.<\/p>\n It\u2019ll most likely not get fixed until it\u2019s too late to stop Arsenal winning the league. But seriously, we\u2019ll survive.\u00a0They\u2019re a really good team, they will deserve it.<\/p>\n It seems weird to write off this season when it\u2019s still only October, but champions don\u2019t have runs like this. Not these days.\u00a0But by next year we will have a very good idea how it all fits together. Probably.<\/p>\n So keep the dummies in the pram and relax. An awful lot of teams\u00a0would love to have our problems. \u00a0<\/p>\n I think, on the balance of probabilities, that possibly, this is a transition season.<\/p>\n Last year Slot was known for making tactical changes with and without substitutions that meant that we finished strong. We aren\u2019t seeing that this year. He\u2019s making panicked, kitchen sink changes.<\/p>\n I just don\u2019t agree with Szoboszlai at right back. It reeks of Gerrard for England rather than Gerrard in the Champions League final. For those watching football 20 years ago.<\/p>\n The game was brought to you with the word \u201cdelay\u201d. How can a team be allowed to spend a whole minute taking a throw in, especially when they are leading? The whole nonsense with getting a towel, I thought that was banned in the Pulis era for causing delays. Add in VAR \u2013 a full 5 minutes to work out whether a molecule of someone\u2019s foot was over a line. A substitute ref who took 20 minutes to warm up. The game finished at quarter past 10.<\/p>\n Is this movement to long to setup set pieces a result of VAR? Has VAR taught us to expect lengthy delays in the game so its now more acceptable. How long before we get the in game adverts? No doubt for gambling or something less dangerous like heroin.<\/p>\n The penalty confirms VVD decline into Lovren. Gakpo\u2019s was more of a penalty than that one. The ex-pros didnt want him to have it for not taking the clattering so fair enough.<\/p>\n Could have done with Wirtz scoring that chance. Hopefully that goal for Salah will wake him up like releasing a mummy\u2019s curse. \u00a0<\/p>\n False dawn<\/strong><\/p>\n Having watched Liverpool succumb yet again to Brentford, I have the following suggestions to make<\/p>\n 1. The Premier League should let Liverpool play all their games in Germany. \u00a0<\/p>\n History never repeats but it rhymes<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear editor,<\/p>\n Picture this:<\/p>\n A Merseyside club spending \u201chalf a billion\u201d on summer signings for their charisma-less Dutch manager, \u00a0including a record signing that they pursue all summer long, and it not working out is it?<\/p>\n Koeman_face.gif READ:\u00a0Man United new arrivals pose some awkward questions, but old familiar flaws remain<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Time Team<\/strong><\/p>\n What a weekend of football we have had. Naturally, it has been extremely pleasing as a United supporter but there is one thing that stands out as being a major disappointment. The level of additional time consistently given to the team in red from Merseyside is borderline insane!<\/p>\n Yet again, for the 427th time this season, Liverpool scored long after the indicated allotted level of injury time and, I think we can all agree, the amount of Fergie time being afforded to them is simply unprecedented. The ref was too embarrassed to even come out for the second half, and so we got another numerically illiterate official in his place. Who then provided the first instance, in my memory anyway (somebody fact-check that for me), of a team being awarded a corner because the GK held onto the ball too long (more than 8 seconds).<\/p>\n The ref is supposed to provide a visual countdown with his fingers for the last 5 seconds. Watch it back, the GK gets rid around 7\/8 seconds and the players complain he wasn\u2019t given proper visual warning by the ref. Bear in mind Brentford did a lot more time wasting against United and weren\u2019t punished in the same manner. They even had the temerity to score another against us in the injury time they had created \u2013 sacre bleu!! Don\u2019t get me started on the time wasted by Arsenal-Wimbledon against us too.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a fine line between corruption and incompetence, but let\u2019s give the officials the benefit of the doubt and say it\u2019s the latter. So what can we do to address this current timekeeping debacle you ask? Either all stoppages are clear and transparent, with a specific clock for stoppages that all can see, or the current team of officials should be sent back to primary school to learn how to count and how to tell the time. (There is a third option of not allowing Liverpool any injury time unless they have a narrow lead, but we\u2019ll hold that one back for now to see how things shake out).<\/p>\n The irony of course is that the back-pass rule was basically invented due to Liverpool wasting time, passing the ball between CBs and GK once they had any sort of a lead (somebody fact-check that for me please). Hansen to Grobbelaar again is it? Not on my watch! We need more of that spirit in officialdom and strive to get back to a time when refs favoured the likes of United (as if they ever did).<\/p>\n In other news, VAR seemed a bit better this weekend. That VVD penalty was on the money, and they got the claim for a United penalty correct \u2013 the player touched the ball before making contact with Amad. Long may it continue. \u00a0<\/p>\n Trouble brewing<\/strong><\/p>\n What\u2019s this, 3 wins on the bounce? Can someone tell me what Man United fans have done to upset Amorim this much? This is real pain! How could he even think we deserve this? We\u2019ve gone and gotten used to having a bit of a laugh every weekend, safe in the knowledge that the game was there to be lost, and was usually lost. The quality of the players and the tactics always made sure of it. We knew our place, and all was right with the world.<\/p>\n Now, nothing is ever going to be the same. We\u2019re in 4th place! 4th! What shall I do with myself? How can I be expected to function like a normal adult with all of this upheaval? The sun is suddenly shining brighter, but will someone please think of global warming? We just beat Brighton! I mean, people, this is Manchester United football club we\u2019re talking about here! In what world can they even dream about beating a team as accomplished as Brighton? How dare Amorim!<\/p>\n Man United winning consecutive games cannot be allowed to continue. This hope cannot be allowed to fester. We can\u2019t be allowed to climb too high, lest, a long, hard fall. He has to go. Give us our Man United back.<\/p>\n
Minty, LFC<\/strong><\/p>\n
James, Liverpool<\/strong><\/p>\n
Alex, South London<\/strong><\/p>\n
2. Wirtz should only play on home soil.
3. Slot should allow his hair to grow.
Yiembe (Where are the pundits who gave Liverpool the Premier League trophy before even a ball was kicked?) Mombasa<\/strong><\/p>\n
EFCraig (Still believing in Davey Klassen!)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Garey Vance, MUFC<\/strong><\/p>\n