The turmoil in the locker room has left Liverpool depressed, Slott needs to stabilize people s hearts

Not long ago I wrote an article about whether Liverpool can still win the championship this season. Combining the situation of Liverpool's lineup and locker room, I made a prediction that it would be difficult for the Red Army to win the championship.

Leaving aside technical and tactical issues, I believe that the Red Army's defeat this season began with "unrest in the locker room" and a devastating defeat caused by a complete lack of morale.

Some friends may not know much about what went wrong in the Liverpool locker room. Let me give you a rundown of what happened.

The first is the incident where Ekitic was sent off. At the beginning of the season, the Red Army was on a winning streak and was in good form. In one game, Ekitic scored a goal, but because he was too excited, he took off his clothes to celebrate and received a second yellow card, and then was sent off with a red card.

After the game, Slott criticized Ekitic angrily, expressing dissatisfaction with his behavior, saying that he was stupid and had a brain problem. His words were very harsh, expressing his angry attitude towards the players.

After watching Slott’s speech at the press conference, I felt that his comments were a bit excessive, and I didn’t quite understand why he wanted to talk publicly about Ekitic’s performance.

These are my words, I guess I am speaking objectively, saying, "Ekitic is still okay, no problem. He scored goals and helped the team win, which was outstanding. But he lost his mind and got a red card. I will talk to him after this incident to see how to solve the matter."

From the perspective of the stability of the locker room and the players' emotions, it would be more appropriate to deal with this matter coldly. There is no need to blame the players too much.

After all, Ekitic just made a mistake. He was too excited to celebrate after scoring a goal. In essence, he did not mean to intentionally hurt the team.

However, Slott's harsh criticism still caused rifts within the Red Army locker room.

Since this incident broke out, the Red Army has become unstable. Problems often occur in the situation, and the morale and morale of the players are not as good as they were at the beginning of the game.

I don’t want to say who is right or wrong about Ekitic. I just want to express a point of view. As the head coach of the team, you should focus on maintaining stability and know how to understand the players and be considerate of their psychology.

If it were Ancelotti, I think this matter would be handled better. He who is good at adjusting interpersonal relationships would face this situation easily.

The second is to complain about the players under you. Midway through, Liverpool performed poorly in some games and lost, and the mood at Slott's press conference became unstable.

After the game, some of his remarks were quite outspoken. Some directly said who made the mistake, while others blamed the referee, which for a time turned into a "shit".

This behavior has puzzled many fans.

It was fine before. There were no problems in the previous season and we even won the championship. Why did it become like this one season later? Not only has his personality changed drastically, but his mood has become extremely irritable, and he doesn't look like a championship-winning and confident head coach at all.

This happened one after another in press conferences. After the game, I felt something was wrong. I only had one thought in my head. Is there something wrong with the Liverpool locker room? Are some players dissatisfied with him, or is there a conflict?

Combined with the recent losing streak, I feel that these speculations are by no means groundless. We may not fully understand what happened in the Liverpool dressing room, but we can tell that the players are by no means completely convinced by Slott.

Especially after new players such as Wirtz, Isaac, and Ekitic joined, the cliques and atmosphere in the team's locker room became a mess, a bit centrifugal, and morale was completely lost.

At the end of October and November, Salah's poor condition directly caused Liverpool to collapse. Due to the delay in regaining his form, Salah, who serves as the main force, has become the team's "invisible bomb". His low efficiency has also caused the performance of players such as Wirtz to be unable to integrate.

Since he is a veteran of the team, Slott cannot take action on Salah, and still needs to send him as the starter in most games, which puts the Red Army into trouble.

If you don't use him, you will be afraid that he will get emotional and cause trouble in the locker room; if you use him, you won't be able to score goals on the court, making the team in a dilemma.

Slott, who is new to the team and takes over from Klopp, has always lacked opportunities to prove his abilities. After last season's success, most people still think that he is "resting on his laurels" and relying on the merits of his predecessor to win the championship. This makes Slott feel a little emotional.

He also wants to prove his strength. It is not just Klopp who can win the championship. If I change the system and players, I can still succeed.

On the issue of Salah, what I see is Slott’s persistence, tenacity and eagerness to “no turning back until you hit the wall”.

The mentality is unbalanced, and the team's situation is obvious. It can only collapse.

It's the same situation as Guardiola in Manchester City last year. After Rodri was injured, Manchester City suffered a losing streak and could not control the situation. Guardiola was so anxious that he scratched his head and scratched his own face, but he was helpless.

Now Slott can make me feel how anxious he is, the kind of emotion that breaks down and has nowhere to vent.

The 0:3 defeat to Forest can basically conclude that it will be difficult for the Red Army to successfully defend their title this season. From the high ambitions at the beginning of the season, it fell into ruin just two months later. This situation made everyone unexpected.

What should Slot do in the next time?

I think he needs to calm down, start from the locker room and the technical and tactical adjustment level, patiently train the team, and quickly get out of the impatience at the beginning of the season.

At the beginning of the season, they bought many stars and recruited players, which shows Liverpool's ambition. However, the purchased players have been unable to integrate into the team, and poor performance will also cause ups and downs for the team.

Football still has to rely on the whole team to win the game.

Since it is no longer possible to win the championship, then just adjust the goal and focus on running-in..

The other thing is to do the work of replacing the old with the new as soon as possible. Veterans such as Salah and Van Dijk can leave, and those like Konate who want to leave and who are not interested in the team can also leave.

Retaining players who are willing to play and building a new team is the way out for the Red Army.

They have to realize this serious situation.