Liverpool FC - Talk /Gossip/Rumours 25/25

Statements like that are typical, but achieve nothing. We have a bunch of individuals that at any given point will show come passion, some anger. We saw it yesterday with Sobo and MacAlister , lil bursts of fury, random, chaotic, but with no rhyme or reason or tactical motive, just pure frustration coming out as a reaction to the groans of the crowd. Team has no togetherness, it should be fun to be on it for whole game, to not give an inch, not back down, to out run and out work teams, and for the whole team to be at it, to have each others backs.

We've drifted far

People will not care about style, it is about competing and winning at the end of the day. If we compete and play a boring style like Arsenal this season you will get some moaning but it will be in the minority. We are not special where we can only win by playing "the Liverpool way", that is one the reasons United have found themselves in some trouble, it is not just about winning but winning a certain way and that will only lead to trouble in the long term.

Whoever is the manager, they will need to compete to win the crowd back. If it is someone new like Alonso they will be given time to do that, if it is Slot still he will need to win from the start or the pressure will be unbearable quite quickly.

A blast from the past boys+girls, Fabio Borini came on for Salford today in l2 playoff, for some reason I thought he'd retired in Italy years ago, still only 35

I think your examples are proving the limitations of British managers rather than up and coming managers

That's a great design/idea. Kudos to whoever came up with it.

Do any of the journalists ask Slot any difficult questions at all? What’s your philosophy/how do you improve/ why is there always the same glaring deficiencies etc…? Feels like he gets a bit of a free ride in front of the cameras. Granted, some of them are posting more critical pieces about him the last couple weeks but that’s easy do.

Club is arriving to a bit of a watershed moment with its next course of action whatever it is they decide to do, plenty good players but some now past their peak, how do you start planning for post VVD & Salah, the remnants of Klopp team is almost all gone.

Alonso seems like the obvious choice, former player, plenty accolades on the pitch and a massively impressive stint at Leverkusen. You would have to factor in him getting a lot out of Wirtz at Leverkusen being a big attraction to bring him in also. Hard to imagine who else might come in? Fascinating few weeks ahead for sure. Keeping Slot is the same as Rodger’s lost season where we famously got hammered by Stoke at the end of the season.

The Alonso rumours are getting amped up to 11.
Folks are now back to tracking private jets and making guesses.
Apparently, this flight is to setup a meeting between the club and Xabi 🤔

https://x.com/i/status/2053792732171075858

Whatever happens?
And to be clear I hope it's a Slot out, please let the decision be made before the WC kicks off and the squad breaks up for the summer.

Could be anyone on those flights really.

Someone on Sky who apparently knows a bit about Chelsea reckons Alonso might decide to take a year out. If that's true it sounds like he could wait for us. I fear we're about to throw away another season though.

Seems to be a big increase in the number of connected reporters saying Slot is no longer the man to take liverpool forward. A notable change in the last few weeks so there must be something going on behind the scenes in the last week or so. Slot deserves respect for what he did last season but he must go at the end of this season and it looks like sense will prevail.

Was there talk of Alonso taking next year off too? I thought it was just to see out this season on a gardening leave type thing from Real Madrid and re-assess over the summer. Iraola could also be worth a punt but i'm always nervous of managers who's done well with "smaller" clubs making the step up - as i heard the other day very few cares if you lose 3 games in a row at Bournemouth but at a bigger club its entering crisis point.

Nagelsmann is another name i've heard mentioned for after the world cup which could also be interesting.

If there was ever a team that needed to start afresh its this liverpool team the world cup over the summer only complicates it.

You can have as many long term plans as you want in football, but it's rare that many of them are actually seen through. It's the nature of the game, you have to be respond to what's actually happening, not what you believed would be the case two years ago.

Because there’s absolutely no evidence that Arne Slot is successfully transitioning this side, and I don’t see that changing. He constantly tells reporters after games that this style of play is not his intention, that he doesn’t want pedestrian sideways passing (no manager does, TBF), and that his players are constantly losing their duels and taking up the wrong positions.

If he’s saying all these things, and they’re in fact true, then quite simply the players are not listening to his instructions. And In the 60 years or more that I’ve been watching and going to football, I’ve yet to see a manager win players back once he’s lost them, and I don’t see that changing now.

Melissa Reddy has spoken

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Yeah Alonso got sacked by a club who sack managers for fun. So if his next move after that experience is to join another club with a fondness for sacking managers repeatedly then really you’d have to question his judgment, as said above.