Liverpool FC Premier League Champions 25/26 - Talk /Gossip/Rumours

We brought Matip in for free and he became a mainstay in a team that won everything, surely there's someone we can grab at low cost who can at least fill in at a back up capacity.

Disagree for the most part. The FA cup is not a throwaway game this season, as it has been treated for much of recent past. FA cup importance has become way higher as it is by far the best chance of lifting a trophy and getting something out of a relatively mediocre season. With that in mind Slot is going to play teams that will get the win, but also bear in mind that the players are still prone to brain dead decision-making, or mental collapse at a moments notice, as evidenced by even Szobo of all players making a howler of an error last night. Complacency I think has been our outstanding weakness this season. It may be embarrassing to some Liverpool fans to put out a strong team against a league 1 side, but say that to United, Palace and Forest fans and see how they feel.

I really think we don’t know what is going on behind the scenes.

It could be the case that Slot has been told that this player can play this amount of minutes, if you play them more then they won’t be available for the next match. Klopp was different in that he was the manager rather than the coach. Klopp probably said “if he dies, he dies” and rolled the dice with player welfare.

If the players would stop making silly mistakes perhaps then the game state would be different and Slot could introduce different players. But too many individual errors have forced him to play certain players more. It could be argued that the players are tired and that’s the reason for the individual errors but I don’t know if I buy that

Joe Gomes is very competent imo and yes his fitness isn't at full strength but he can still start the games and his primary position is RB. He in fact needs to be playing to get back up to full speed. RB and then LB are basically the two positions on the pitch where a number of players can slot in and be competent, so they automatically get reduced focus vs CB, midfield or striker. Slot made 6 changes from the Arsenal game, focusing on areas which are more critical right now. We play Burnley on Saturday followed by an absolutely critical champions league game on next Wed. I would expect the starting and playing strategy had in mind managing the players over more than one FA cup game.

Slot was getting criticised last year for not respecting the opposition in the cups, and I think given our season so far, this is about the level of respect that this game deserved. We won 4-1 and no big injuries, and scored some bangers, like give up the doom and gloom for one bloody game.

Have a feeling Guehi has given his word to join in the summer. We still should be getting another CB in so they can get up to speed for next season. As bad as Konate has been we are an injury to him away from having to play Grav at CB, its ridiculous.

Really like Frimpong, exactly what we have been missing this season, that pace and acceleration.

Well half the lads we've sent on loan this year are being used as backup 😅

You can not like the fact that we were in the position of only 2-1 up against weak opposition, and Slot decided to bring on a couple of big guns to close out the game, and win comfortably in the end, but in the context of that game he was proven right in his decision-making.

I think our biggest results weakness this season have been massive complacency in the face of weaker opposition, poor defending and not closing out a game when being on top. It's for sure not the only problem by a long shot, but has been our biggest issue. And I'm not excusing Slot for that, he has a big amount of accountability for that.

If we were still in the PL and comfortably in the top 8 of the CL then I'm sure he would have given a better spin for some of the academy players, but we're not.

Again, I'm not advocating punishing players for mistakes but some mistakes are mistakes that should only happen once. Ekitike getting a second yellow for celebrating a goal is a perfect example of what I mean by this. Dom trying a ridiculous backheel to the keeper in his own box like that is another if you ask me.

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I watch them on YouTube quite a bit

Agreed.

The league is gone.

The champions league is very much an outside chance of winning.

Let's not turn into Arsenal from a few years ago and celebrate top 4 like a trophy.

Finishing top 4/5, a run in the FA cup and hopefully a run in the CL knockouts should be attainable for this team.

If we were top of the league or properly challenging I'd have a different opinion, and you can be sure Slot would have had a youth team out last night.

any of ye watch the lad with all the tats from dublin bit of a nut job slot out slot out etc