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

Can we bring in Xabi to manage and play midfield?

Quotes like that from Slot really f*ck me off. He barely rotates his squad, and he only made 2 subs on 80mins against Marseille, playing both full backs for 90mins.

Ah yes, rule one of excuses, someone else's fault. So is this the old recruitment team excuse that Brendan Rogers used ? He hasn't a notion.

This is pretty damning. Definitely shows the very poor mentality, poor game management and major complacency that has dogged our performances for a while now. A lot of blame should be placed on the players, but sooner or later it reflects on the manager. Klopp to be fair used to know how to close out games, Slot just doesn't seem to be able to do it.

Although I do feel Slot is taking all of the brunt for issues that are not just due to him, at a certain point it becomes untenable regardless of how much fault there is, like Frank at spurs, or Mourihno at united. There is basically zero chance of a new contract getting signed before summer for Slot, and with less than 12 months to go on his contract at that time it seems like is becoming a lame duck too. With Alonso available it could be a sliding doors moment for the club.

We have now dropped more points than in the whole of last season, with 15 games to go!

On the players being mentally fragile I think we are missing a team leader like Henderson or Gerrard who used to get stuck into tackles etc and berate teammates if they were not putting in a shift, our current midfielders seem like delicate petals in comparison to these men, the likes of grav, macca and slobo have plenty football but they are not hard bastards who u would love to have in the trenches with u, same as our defenders there's no carragher there to lambast them into doing better, gomez is a big boy but seriously he has to be carried off after he collides with keeper, WTF, how can he always be getting injured like, players too soft these days, I remember Gerrard saying that he never remembers Suarez being in the treatment room for anything, why? Cause he was a tough nut who treated every game like a war

Adam Clery has done a really good analysis of Xabi at Madrid. His main conclusion is that his tactics were working (they did have their best start to a season in decades), but the Vinicius incident and the board's lack of support undid him. We knew that part anyway, but the tactical analysis is very interesting.

I've no doubt he's a special manager and he already has that connection to Liverpool. We would be mad not to jump at this opportunity.

I think the 300k a week wages were a stumbling block

Is that what city are paying him? Mental so

Alsono was poor at Real. Keith Andrews should be considered. He might bring Nathan and Caoimhen also

This was the most pertinent question asked on here today. I asked it myself. Our best striker in a tough away game is benched. Weak management from Slot who was either trying to appease Salah, Gakpo.or both.

I hate Chelsea, but right now I'm sorry to say we need to be a bit Chelsea and sack the coach.

We have one fit out and out striker. He can't play 90 minutes every single game for fear he is injured again. He's only back from injury recently. People need to stop making sh1t up to suit their agenda.

We've been shite all season for the most part. A lot of it is on the manager, some on the players and some in recruitment. No need to add nonsense into it.

Alonso set all kinds of records and was phenomenal at bayer leverkusen. He was only at madrid a wet weekend and that club is a basket case.

Keith Andrews is obviously a wind up I assume.

I cannot see Slot lasting medium/long term but I fully expect the club will let him finish out this season before anything potentially happens.

Whether we like it or not.

It would be absolutely mental not to have Alonso lined up for next season at the very least. I'd try to get him in for remainder of this season, unless he wants to wait until the summer. We can't allow him to go to another club when we all know Slot won't be here next season. If we have to get an interim manager until the end of the season so be it. In a few weeks we are likely to be out of the CL, FA cup and fallen behind in the race for top 5. Slot is not turning this around unfortunately.