Some context on this comfort blanket of 3rd. 1st is as far away as 15th is. By all means feel cozy there but I hope the players dont.
I think it’s just an odd one isn’t it. Last year is what we expected to be a transition season where top 4 would be an achievement and maybe a cup. Slot and the players exceeded all expectations by winning the league - as slot said himself he was helped by fact teams thought they could attack us after losing Klopp abd it played into our hands. This year teams now worked us out a bit more, add in the changes - which did need to happen. Of all the players that left only Diaz and TAA were starters and we had no option to keep them really. The rest were squad players, then add in Jota which will have had an impact and it seems this is the transition year just delayed a year. If last year we’d have had this start, 3rd in table with 6/10 wins then think everyone would have gone sure that’s not a bad start.
Who said anything about cosy? This is why people argue with you and then you get all uppity about it.
Just say'n Its up and down the Internet. I've seen the worst start in 10 years v man utd worst start in 10 years rubbish for example. Doesn't change the fact we lost at anfield to them. Just makes people fell better. 3rd after losing 4 in a row is a comfort blanket making it feel not so bad. In reality 3rd is 7 points away from 1st and 7 points away from 15th. It doesn't change the fact we lost 4 in a row. We've won one. That's what is a relief so now we have to try follow it up.against city and go into yet another princess international break We can draw a line under things in different ways. We lost 4 in a row. That's now done. We have won and we want to keep winning. Or hey its not so bad we are 3rd.
I missed out the word 'with' (which I didn't think it needed) so it should have read 'with Slot realising he needs to make incremental changes... '. The point being he needs to keep making small changes. I agree with the rest of what you said.
Yes I think that would be right. Last year we would have been happy to be 3rd though maybe not very happy to lose 4 in a row. It is like villa going up and down thr tbale last year. They were in for 4th then down to 9th then back up again. If you are not leading the way then theres not a lot separating a lot of teams.
Yes there is. I've lost 4 in a row and drawing a firm line under it by winning is a different mindset totally. You really want to win the next one to keep going. You sre not looking at the position you are focused on performance. Its fine we are 3rd will accept losing tje next one as long as it doesn't damage you too much. You are focused on the position not the performance. They are very very different mindsets.
