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

Why the need to personally insult a man who won us no. 20? It's funny there was no sign of ye last season when we won the title,but think ye are cool or edgy insulting the man,actually says more about ye than anything else.

I'd give it to Fowler until end of season. He could get em going. It's his time

I'd love to find a manager from within, sometimes you can stumble upon something that just clicks, and works.

I was delighted with the level of progression during my first season because it reaffirmed my belief that I am able to build exciting teams to watch that also encompass a strong team spirit while doing what is expected of any team, winning.

“After that first season, I set a target for myself of becoming a Premier League manager within the next five years, but COVID stopped my progress in Brisbane, and I had to return home.

“Prior to the season ending, I won two Manager of the Month awards and was on the verge of a third one just as the season stopped.

I was offered the Al-Qadsiah job in Saudi Arabia

“The team were in the Saudi First Division at the time and my job was to build a team that was capable of winning promotion to the Saudi Pro League.

“I was enthusiastic about the challenge, and we had an unbelievable start with the players we had.

“I implemented an attacking style of play, and we were the team to beat within the First Division. In my eight games in charge, we won six and drew two, so I was unbeaten during my time at the club.

“Unfortunately, after eight games, I was replaced by a Spanish head coach because the sporting director made it clear to the ownership that his preference was to have a fellow Spaniard as the head coach going forward.

“I was very disappointed with how the role ended. Of course, I understand how football works but I felt that it was uncalled for especially given the squad that I built and the start to the season that we had.

“The team that I left behind went on to win promotion to the Saudi Pro League and I am proud to have played a part in that even if I am disappointed that I was not given the opportunity to see the job through.”

At the moment we could play with 22 and still not win.

I predicted mid table mediocrity on here when we hired Slot. My mistake was I didn't factor Klopp muscle memory getting us two thirds of the way through a season in which there were no real challengers, at which point we had an uncatcheable lead by the time the effects of Slot's training regime and lack of any playing identity starting taking real root. But for 12 months this team has been in steady decline to one that's patently unfit, and with no visible identity bar hoping for moments of individual magic. It scarily resembles Ten Haag ball.

Slot is utterly out of his depth and prolonging this failed expirement is doing more damage by the week. Having a supporter referring to his spoofing ways in an irreverent fashion is the least of our problems right now; Slot should have been sacked the week of the Forest and PSV debacles, and the Superfan brigade who have spent months falling back on old reliables such as "we're not a sacking club" (no club is a sacking club until they are) or "give him time, he won a league" can shoulder responsibility for some of the many defeats since November.

There is obviously no need to insult Slot but it is infuriating to hear him say we played well.

Delusions, lies? I honestly don't know.

I dont see us making mass changes to personnel, 3 or 4 for sure. Alot of these lads deserve a chance to see if it was just one bad season or the manager's instructions.

It’s clear that when Slot came in last season, he had a few positive elements that he brought to the team, and the carry over in individual & collective confidence and fitness from Klopp enabled the team to go on and win it. I would attribute the title to both of them.

If anything it’s probably Slots poorer man management, but perhaps better straight talking, that enabled a few direct conversations and tweaks to the team to give them everything needed to win the title.

However then on an individual level some players started dropping off, and Slot wasn’t doing anything to bring them back up, so like dominos it all started to fall apart, from weaker players, through to even VVD looking shaky.

In the end only a handful of extremely confident players were left performing well enough, like Szobo, and Eketike. It’s notable that the dam burst with Eketike’s sending off back in September.

I honestly don't think it is anymore and, although not a popular view, the passsge of time seems to give it more credence imo.

We managed similar points in 25 as 24, team was the same, main difference was a City collapse (and Mo's wonder year).

Both TAW and Redmen have said he should be replaced. Not every member of those channels said the same thing but a lot of the main presenters did.

Slot got time because of what happened in the summer and because he won the league. Maybe that time is up but there is a lot of bs and revisionism going on at the minute

TAW and Redmen have only adopted "Slot out" positions in the last few weeks when the groundswell of opinion left them looking like outliers. Until that point, they did their usual Pravda-esque defending of eveything at the club week in week out. It was obvious to most post Forest/PSV there was something deeply wrong, but those same outlets lauded the "unbeaten run" that followed as being proof of some green shoots of recovery when it was anything but.

A change of manager can work wonders. Fowler knows all these players, interacts constantly with them all, and they respect him , he's a people person like Klopp, if we go out Wednesday, I'd have him in until end of season. Only God can save us now

It's quite clear what happened last year.

Klopp's foundation of energy, fitness and aggression, merged with Slot's tactical tweaks, and there was a beautiful crossover, aligned with Salah's 6 months of genius.

However, the more we are trained by Slot, the weaker, slower, less fit and less aggressive we become. The 'rest defence' he employs is bonkers. We ran 9km less than Spurs yesterday - simply unacceptable. We're giving up late goals by the hatful. The fitness muscle memory is gone.

The guy is utterly out of his depth for the job at hand, has no idea what made the team elite, and it's been a painful decline since March / April last year.

I don't want to see him in the dugout anymore. It's done.

Lads I think most are in agreement Slot should go (now or in the summer) but this Gerrard/Fowler talk is bonkers.

Klopp as caretaker until the end of the season please then go for a Alonso/Enrique type 🤞

I agree with this assessment, it seems Slot made a few tweaks initially to what was already there, and it worked, almost like a new manager bounce. I think by the end of Klopp's time , he was clearly spent, and once players knew he was leaving, performances tailed off in the last few months, but, there was still a strong squad there and Slot as a new voice refreshed the squad initially -a bit like Carrick has at United - and that carries us through until about February last season, when performances noticeably dropped, we were still getting results in the league and because we had no real challenger, a lot ignored it or chose not to see it, because well, we won the league quite easily, but, the signs were there from about February of last year onwards.

Obviously Jota's death in the summer has had an unquantifiable affect on the squad, something that's very difficult to know how it has truly affected the squad and even Slot himself, so, I can see why most are not willing to be too critical, but, it's also quite clear that it's no longer working, there are huge problems at the club, how we play, squad depth and squad use, player recruitment etc., etc. Very hard to see how Slot gets past the summer- if Gala knock us out, he really should be replaced over international break- really and truly we shouldn't even be in contention for CL places, but, that's more down to other teams around us being so poor, rather than anything we are doing ourselves. Slot deserves massive credit for winning the title last season, but, for the long term good of the club and I suspect himself ( he can't be enjoying it atm) he needs to be replaced sooner or later, definitely no later than summer as we can't afford to drag this malaise into next season. Whoever takes over has a massive job on their hands, as the squad is so unbalanced and will likely be a fair bit of turn over during the summer.

They were, but, what had they really done at the elite level, before appointed, there's a huge difference between the Dutch and Portuguese leagues, it wasn't the same as Klopp, Pep, Mourinho and Conte going to Liverpool, City, United and Chelsea around a decade ago, all were proven managers in one of the big leagues and in Europe, Alonso is the closest to that level and is available, so is the obvious answer. Will Alonso work at Liverpool, I don't know, but, I think worth the risk over keeping Slot for next season.