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

Especially when the team isn't setup up for a traditional number 9 he looked like a square peg for the time he was available post injury although we'll never know how he would have kicked on post spurs and at least would have given Ekitike less work than he had to do which is probably too much for his age.

Think they are on about some of the players,possibly Edwards and Hughes too

Slot's philosophy, above anything else, is that he wants his best players available whenever possible, and in doing so, sacrifices the intensity we used to bring.

Whatever intensity we can bring, seems to last one game a week, maximum.

It's absolutely fúcked us. An insane approach to PL football, that he's stubbornly stuck to, no matter what evidence is in front of him that it's failing

I think this is a reasonable take.

Part of me is intrigued as to how we would look with the required signings and Slot giving it another go but I think the fan base has had enough. It reminds me of the end of Rafa’s time at the club.

I don't understand how anyone is still defending Slot it's clear the journey should end. Thanks for last season and good luck.

The gas thing is i still don't think fsg will sack him and weirdly we might still stumble into top 5 - more from inaction of other teams than anything we are doing. We do not deserve Europe and long term I think we need rid of Slot now. This also opens up a bizarre question.

Why do the same players play so differently in Europe versus the league? We seem to play with more intensity in Europe even take Galatasary out of it we just seem more up for European nights whereas we revert to passive mode in the league. This season is a shambles and I've zero faith Slot can turn this around next season.

Liverpool need to turn a win rate of 46% into 62% for the run in not sure how that happens.

Everton doing us a favour here... though also bringing themselves into the hunt for 5th.

Moyes correctly arguing that Chelsea should have a points deduction because he rightly feels Everton could catch us.

I switched off the game in frustration at the 60 minute mark. Reading the rest of the thread after that, I'm glad I did. Any other team, we say the players are refusing to play for the manager. Utd had it, we are in the exact same boat. Slot needs to go sooner rather than later. We won't be getting that CL place regardless.

Wow. A gift from Everton. Still a decent chance of CL qualification.

It's actually ridiculous we are still in contention. It's equally ridiculous we haven't got it in the bag already.

Well the reason is obvious. We are champions. The lads won the league.People forget to enjoy that and prefer to wallow in a defeat to Brighton. What Arsenal and ManU supporters would give to be champions

So it’s human nature that league football isnt quite as important this season. Nobody deliberately thinks that, but it just seeps in. The CL is the ‘be all and end all’ this season, we might not win it, but the lads will give every ounce in the CL games. You can see from the manager interviews that’s he’s so annoyed with our league performances, but he’s never blamed the players in public, which is proper order. The biggest issue is we don’t have a Souness or Keane figure to keep standards high all day every day. We have some super players, but we don’t have a Souness that drives others, not just themselves

The City team thst cheated their way to the top failed to defend the first time they won. They failed to defend the second time they won. Wenger failed 3 times to defend, and he’s regarded as one of the top managers in the PL era. It’s really tough to defend.

Fair enough.

But rather than trying to gaslight others for noticing the painfully obvious maybe it can just be said that some of the early views on Slot were misjudged.

Most League Losses in a Decade: Today’s defeat was Liverpool’s 10th Premier League loss of the season. This is the first time since 2015/16 that the club has hit double-digit losses in a single campaign.

​In November 2025, Slot became the first Liverpool manager since Bill Shankly in 1965 to suffer back-to-back league defeats by a margin of 3 or more goals (3-0 vs. Man City and 3-0 vs. Nottingham Forest).

​72-Year Domestic Slump: Earlier this season, he oversaw a run of 5 consecutive defeats in all domestic competitions, a feat not matched by a Liverpool manager since Don Welsh in 1953.

​Defensive & Tactical Collapse

​Surpassing Last Year's Total: With 31 games played, Liverpool have already conceded 41 goals. This surpasses the total goals they conceded in the entirety of last year’s 38-game title-winning season (41).

​Set-Piece Shambles: Liverpool currently hold the lowest percentage of expected goals (xG) from set-pieces in the league (14.9%) and have conceded the second-most dead-ball goals (only Bournemouth have a worse record).

​The "Pressing" Death: Slot’s move to a more "measured" style has seen Liverpool’s pressing numbers drop by 20.4% compared to last season. They currently rank as the worst pressing team in the Premier League (141 per match),

​3. Individual & Transfer Records

​Worst Start for a Record Signing: Alexander Isak, the club’s £100m+ summer arrival, became the first Liverpool player in over 100 years (since 1906) to lose his first four Premier League starts for the club.

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