{"id":1090,"date":"2026-03-21T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2026-03-21T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:54:20","slug":"liverpool-may-end-up-getting-rid-of-slot-purely-because-they-cannot-think-of-what-else-to-do-jonathan-liew-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/liverpool-may-end-up-getting-rid-of-slot-purely-because-they-cannot-think-of-what-else-to-do-jonathan-liew-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLiverpool may end up getting rid of Slot purely because they cannot think of what else to do\u201d – Jonathan Liew (Guardian)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cIn a way the modern big-club coach takes the job with the full awareness that they are basically a narrative device, a reset button to press when things get sticky, a meat sacrifice that allows everyone else to indulge the illusion of renewal. You can\u2019t shift the owners and you can\u2019t sell an entire playing squad. So the purpose of the manager is essentially to be fired: to be responsible for the things they\u2019re not really responsible for, to be immediately disposable, to provide the illusion of a simple solution where none exists\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/18\/liverpool-arne-slot-premier-league-champions-league-football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn a way the modern big-club coach takes the job with the full awareness that they are basically a narrative device, a reset button to press when things get sticky, a meat sacrifice that allows everyone else to indulge the illusion of renewal. You can\u2019t shift the owners and you can\u2019t sell an entire playing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}