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

It's pretty amazing that it's only the start of February and CL football already looks a very long shot, it's a good few seasons since we've been in that situation, even the season we missed out a few years ago we were in the mix until the last few games. At the moment we look more likely to slip down the table further, than to climb up to 5th!

The squad is so thin, even for the cup game next week, there isn't much options for rotation, always in the past, we could make 5 or 6 changes to the team and still put a decent side out, against Sunderland we're going to have a bench full of youngsters and players Slot doesn't want to play, not that he wants to play the youngsters either, so we are unlikely to see any substitutions unless really required.

We are in a bad state and an awful lot of work is required for whoever is the manager and director of football next season. Anyone who thinks we will challenge for a title next season without substantial change is in dreamland.

At this point, where Salah would shoot, other player is not even across to ball yet, keeper not set from his walkabout, Salah would have left footed it around the upright keeper

He won the league last season with 4 games to spare there is no need to be going back that far, the results this season are bad enough.

We are 4 points off 5th, our form isn't great, plus the teams above us are in much better form, unless we have a dramatic improvement in form or some of the teams above us have a serious dip, we won't be getting top 5. We are actually barely staying ahead of the teams below us, Everton can overtake us tonight for example. The current circumstances don't back up those odds, they are skewed by the fact Liverpool have a large following as another poster pointed out.

I posted this in early October.

Slot himself said teams figured him out in the second half of the season. I think the confidence through the team from the first half of the season and the point gap we had in February helped us hold our nerve to get over the line but we were stumbling up to the Spurs game.

With the new summer signings this did not really change and it's still a case that teams know how to set up against us with us not having a tactic to win a game. Slot said himself in an interview it relies on moments of magic from individuals.

He doesn't do himself any favours with the things he says. If we rely on moments of individual magic to win a game then he's basically saying he has no input to our victories bar putting the first 11 players and hoping for the best.

I still think he'll get the rest of the season and be evaluated then.

We all knew that Rodgers should have gone in the summer after losing the last game of the season was it 5-1 or 6-1 to Stoke but he was kept, I think mainly because Klopp was identified but maybe would not commit that early.

It may be the same with Slot. He's being kept with the alternative being lined up.

It's mad to think we were 7 points behind Arsenal in November and 1 point behind City. It does feel like a wasted season in that Slot would not make changes to the system same as Amorim and Ten Haag before him.

I also think one of the problems he gave himself at the start of the season was the rush to get Isak playing. He should have left him get more training under his belt instead of putting him in ahead of Ekitike who was showing form and scoring goals.

Putting Isak in to start games too early probably set him back in the long run.

Yeah by tonight we could be sitting in 7th place 7 points off 5th, and then we have to go to Sunderland (where no away team has won this season) and win to claw back to within 4 points again.

Unfortunately our fate is almost entirely resting on the teams above us being significantly worse than us for the rest of the season.

Nah he's definitely in his own half when the ball is released

Yeah looks fine, looked closer in real time.

Ramsay has never played a single minute in the Premier League. He has 2 appearances in the Championship and 11 appearances in League One across spells at 3 different clubs

That's the extent of his league experience in 4 seasons in England

He's not a realistic option. He's only registered in the squad because we had a free spot. Had we signed Geertruida 2 weeks ago he would not even be in the PL squad anymore.

Yes he's been on the bench but again why not if he's training? Lucky and Morrison have been on the bench too, Rhys Williams too I think?

Doesn't mean much. He's clearly not of the level and I don't get why he's constantly being brought up as if just because he's a right back by trade it must mean he's a better option than Endo or Jones.

He's an option in the same way that Phillips and Williams were for Klopp. He may not be a world beater but he's part of this squad and the manager should be more careful about how he speaks about him.

It wouldn't kill him to say "Calvin is working hard in training and we're happy to have him as an option" instead of **** on him in front of the press.

I think he's more like Ben Davies was an option for Klopp

Klopp didn’t use Phillips and Williams until the last resort either, preferring to put Fabinho and others into the defence.

Slot probably fucked up a bit with his comments on Ramsay, he was a bit better today. People don’t trust Slot at the moment it seems so they cannot take his word that Ramsay isn’t good enough.