Tom Williams

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340 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jun

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What next for Arsenal? & Is Iraola better than Slot? · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

So unusual.

to see a departing player with a legacy as enormous as Salah's taking a pot shot at the manager that he's leaving behind in that way.

And seemingly being supported in that by at least half, two thirds of the Liverpool changing room to go by the likes on the post.

And we occasionally get carried away analysing what players are liking on social media.

Every one of those likes felt like a very pointed decision.

In particular, this idea that Salah articulated that Liverpool Football Club have to play a certain kind of football and it has to be aggressive, front foot football.

pressing heavy football and not what Arnaud Slot was trying to do and it was impossible not to look at that and the apparent support that he had in doing that from people in the changing room and think well the players clearly just are not buying into this at all and that again is just another factor I think that ultimately led to Slot's demise.

I mean, on paper, he ticks an awful lot of boxes, particularly the kind of football that he got that Bournemouth team playing.

I mean, I think probably one of the most impressive pressing units in the Premier League and a team with one of the strongest playing identities in the Premier League.

There is always a risk a manager leaves a club of Bournemouth stature.

to join a club of Liverpool stature.

And it's not always possible to perfectly replicate what you were doing at your former club.

I mean, it's not an ideal comparison for all manner of reasons.

But, you know, we saw that with Thomas Frank at Tottenham.

I mean, you know, Tottenham...

million miles away from Liverpool in terms of the success of how things are managed on the sporting side.

But a big club, bigger expectations, and Frank was incapable of replicating the football that he had got Brentford playing and that had brought success to Brentford.

But

I don't think that Irola will encounter the same level of problems.

And you sense that there is probably an appetite for Liverpool to get back to playing that kind of football.

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