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

Since last March you mean .

But But but it's okay really. Let's just support the manager. It'll be grand. ;-)

Since the opening 5 game win streak we've played 26 games. In the first 13 of those games we earned 17 points from a possible 39:

In the following 13 games of that 26 we also earned 17 points from the 39 available:

The season is almost over and we've not improved at all since we started faltering in October (really since PSG and Newcastle last season)

I still think the appointment of van bronkhurst was a poor one.

I know Heitinga wanted to leave but I think it was him who had a good impact on the midfield.

there hasn’t really been anything positive said about van bronkhurst so far. From looking at previous fans opinion, they refer to the “horseshoe” lb→cb→rb and back again. Interestingly, they also mention that his teams performed well in Europe, but couldn’t translate in the league.

He's a good tactician. He'd have us changing formation several times during a game, and masterminded victories over far better sides, including a Dortmund led by Jude Bellingham. His strong suit was in European competition, funnily enough, and cups more generally. Managing one-off games is very much in his wheelhouse and it wouldn't surprise me to see Besiktas win the Turkish Cup again under him. His achievements in the European run alone are highly impressive. He also got Rangers to the Champions League and he was the last manager to beat Celtic in an important game.

He was poorer in the league. We struggled to have any consistency. After an initial manager bounce, we struggled against domestic sides who figured out how to play against Gio's sides. Rangers would typically regress to 'horseshoe' football, which was ineffective and utterly boring to watch (GK passes to left back, left back passes to centre backs, centre backs pass to right back, no space to move up them field, so right back passes to centre back, who passes to left back - you get the picture).

Ultimately it got to the point where the players didn't look as if they enjoyed playing under him, and we just couldn't get going domestically. We also had an utterly terrible pre-season under him, which contributed to us becoming a very unfit side. He did suffer from injury problems and a lack of investment from the board, but ultimately he's quite a passive, cautious and reactive manager who typically oversees inconsistent or patchy runs of form. When you do well, you'll do really well, but when you do badly, you might have some serious low points under him.

sound familiar?

I can count on one hand the number of genuinely good performances this season, I've run out of fingers and toes counting the bad ones. Even say Nottingham Forrest which we won was a dreadful performance. A blip is 5 or 6 games not 5 or 6 months. I honestly don't think we get more than 3 wins for the rest of the entire season including cup competitions.

I am worried that this will carry on into next season and the reason for this is that there is a world cup this summer so that means a lot of liverpool players may not be back with the until close to the season start. We have seen it before with playes coming back from summer tournaments and it taking them a good few weeks into the season to get back up to speed especially with countries that go deep into the tournament.

If the fitness this year is anything to go by it could be worse next season. To get back on track next we really need to have a good pre-season.

If Alonso is available right now get him in to start after the international break. Slot is gone at the end of the season in any case - a shortened pre season due to the WC, a kick start now might just bag CL footy which is not happening with Slot unless Isak offers a goal threat through to year end.

Hea a gonner IMHO. Regardless of my view, there hasn't been one word about a new contract,and if that's not sorted and signed before the summer no decent player will jump aboard. It's gone past **** or get off the pot time,he's a lame duck and Im struggling to see the benefits of waiting until the end of the season TBH

We have 25 less pts than we did at this stage last season , Arsenal are 8pts better, City are 10pts better

I'd be hopeful a deal has been struck or in the process. These things are negotiated months in advance.

Saying that, Bet365 are giving odds of evens that Slot will still be manager on August 22nd.

I wouldn't let Eddie Howe manage the u9s.

The state of him

Edited. Forgot a few important characters in my sentence 🤣🤣

And we couldn't beat this spurs team last week🤦

West Ham not looking like doing Liverpool a favor against Villa. Only Chelsea being so bad is keeping the top 5 place secure.