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

I really felt he'd turn it around, I felt that the team would pull together and put some performances together. It just hasn't happened and I think that probably should be it for him in the summer unfortunately.

My feeling that he'll be here at the start of next season is not based on wishful thinking, just the noises from the club have been very consistent in terms of backing him. I think they'll want to give him a chance to go again with a better balanced squad.

Well yes, that's what should happen.

I can see them digging their heels in though and giving him another chance. They might look at next season as phase 2 of the transition. I don't see us challenging for major honours next year no matter whose in charge, there will be too much upheaval in the summer.

Doesn't surprise me at all and is 100% consistent with the clear eye'd way FSG run the club. They took their time researching who the right person was to replace Klopp, decided on Slot and he won a PL for them in his first year.

We all know this year has been a $h1t show for many reasons (Jota + Trent + too many new players to be integrated + ISAK drama and then injury etc) but that doesn't mean FSG are going to change their mind that the qualities they saw in Slot when appointing him were wrong so they'll remain committed to him for next season and then, at the end of 3 years, review before a new contract would traditionally be offered.

FSG are calm long term custodians of the club who make informed strategic decisions and stay the course, unlike most fans they don't panic or make knee jerk decisions. That doesn't mean if things go completely off the rails that they won't make a change e.g. Hodgson & Rogers but where there are mitigating circumstances or they believe the club will perform better under the current manager than rolling the dice on a new manager then they'll stick with the current manager and give him their 100% backing.

Slot will be manager next season because FSG want to see what he can do with a settled squad, a fit Isak and the Salah distraction no longer an issue.

I'll take anyones money he'll be manager come game day one in August.

Yes, if you take a cynical view of these briefings the club are giving, then it may well be that they are backing him fully while there are still competitive games to be played. Everything changes when that's not the case.

Whatever they do is a massive gamble, Alonso is not a guarantee of success and I don't see another Klopp waiting in the wings. They may very well take the view that Slot has proven he can win the league, they just need to provide him with the right players again.

That is always, always the messaging right up until the moment the trigger is pulled though. There's a reason the 'dreaded vote of confidence' is such a cliche. Because there's absolutely nothing to be gained by saying anything different.

That's not to say they definitely won't keep him either of course — just that there's never much point in trusting positive noises about a manager, as that's just the default up until the day they go.

Yes, but even the best sources are actively choosing what to leak. I don't think Ornstein's talking bollocks or anything - just that what he's hearing is the message the club wishes to be heard.

I just wouldn't take anything released about a manager's position too seriously one way or another… if they're ever at the stage where they're leaking legit inside info that a manager is going to go, that's usually within days/hours of them going.