Arne Slot’s Liverpool chaos is a reminder of how how fast things change in football. The runaway champions of England and praised by many as close to Europe’s top side is now in freefall with the worst record in 71 years.
The Dutchman has gone from hero to literal zero borderline overnight, with fickle fans of all persuasions jumping on him as a fail.
Klopp
The most common quip is that it was Klopp’s team who won the title, with folk now changing their minds on Slot and giving the ex-boss the credit.
Never mind how average to rotten they’d become under Klopp, let’s just attack someone because it’s what people do. People love a target, someone to blame. Even better when there’s someone else they can attribute success to without any evidence behind it.
Where’s the Rangers angle here?
Chermiti
Well, it’s simple – a languishing Rangers who have been a mess forever could manage a run and overnight Danny Rohl is the saviour and Youssef Chermiti is suddenly good enough.
Forget logic, reason, rationale and sense in football, it’s a sport without any of these. It lives 99% on emotion and ‘what feels good’.
This means opinions change with the wind, and Rohl could well manage more wins in the league, find himself top of the league and suddenly he’s the messiah.
Celtic
Meanwhile Celtic have appointed some nobody called Nancy from the MLS, and while he could succeed, if Rohl finds himself putting a run together and Celtic’s guy doesn’t get off to a flier, well, who knows.
Slot is an example of how quickly things change in football.
Two minutes ago PSG were Europe’s best team by a mile, with Enrique praised as a great. They still ain’t half bad but it’s Arsenal now shining in the UCL and Marseille not far behind the Parisians domestically.
Football is fickle. Rangers could change overnight to become top of the table and making a fist of it in Europe.
If Arne Slot can go from the greatest manager of all time to a vilified Ron Bassett overnight, who knows what can happen in this sport.