Xabi under pressure in spain for being top 2 and bad run of form. Be interesting to see if they approach him since was 1st choice.
Heard plenty of rumours about Klopp and Gerrard until the end of the season, then Nagelsmann after the WC, when he'll swap jobs with Klopp. But that's just wishful thinking. One thing is for sure, though, atm, even with a two-goal lead, you just never feel we have full control of any game. But, 3 new centre-backs apart, I just don't get that these players aren't good enough - they just have no energy or stamina in them, and everyone knows it. Their psyche is shot. Though this goes back to the Spring, not just this season. The fact that the players went on a month's bender after winning the title and were **** for the last four games masks another inconvenient truth - we were, the Newcastle at home and City away games apart, turgid, slow, dross from about March onwards. This isn't mainly about the new players (though only one of them has cut the mustard so far), it's about the established players, Szobbo and Gravy excluded, who just haven't put a shift in for Slot for 9 months. Anything but an impossible win on Tuesday, and Slot doesn't get to see Christmas. It probably means we won't be panacea buying in January either, as any replacement won't be here until the summer, and we won't be blowing another £200m net on a caretaker manager. Ah, well - it was worth it all the get no 20. But it means we'll be struggling to even make the Europy League next season. Good job we bought all those players when we were on a high, I suppose.
Remote possibility he'd come next summer, but not unless he was insanely sacked by Real whilst Real are still in the CL and pretty certain to make the last 16.
