Liverpool FC - Talk /Gossip/Rumours 25/25

Andy Robertson came from Hull. VVD played for Southampton…we have to start getting value for money and building a squad again with hungry young footballers…

I didn't want to load the question by giving my own opinion, but - absolute no for me. Despite the results and the (probable) footballing genius, he's a moral black hole. He was a cheat as a player and a cheat as a manager. I'd rather be relegated or have Roy back (possibly the same thing) than have Pep as manager.

I think what annoys me most about Slot is his stupid comments like this.
I mean if he doesn’t like how the team are playing all season, who exactly can change that??? Because the supporters can’t, we just have to put up with watching and supporting the same crap style of play. He seems to want to continually absolve himself of any blame.

I really still think this is an attractive job. We will very likely be in the Champions league, I refuse to believe that the likes of Grav and MC Alistair and Gakpo are suddenly bad players. We will hopefully have Isak firing next season, I still believe Wirtz can come good. There's still plenty to work with to make us an excellent side

This 100% (well not sure on the Ferguson bit 😂). Pep is highly over rated in my opinion there is no way he could have done what Klopp did as above he has been successful with unlimited money and unlimited talent. Any time anything small went against him he generally had a poor season and was found out tactically plenty of times.

It's a pity he will be seen as a better manager than Klopp by many when Klopp was far better in reality. If city get properly punished and all their titles taken away (and relegated multiple divisions) I wonder how Pep will be looked on - very unlikely to happen unfortunately. Amazing how fast they could act on Southampton.

I think what Slot is saying that due to the lack of fitness and the introduction of new players that were not ready for the PL, the style of football has suffered.

Robbo has said again recently that no one was interested in football the start of the season. Even the physios were not interested…

Hard to rile everyone up when everyone is dealing with grief.

I've said it in the first half of the season that on paper our first 11 is incredibly strong. While you can still point to some underperforming players and say the talent it still there they just need the right manager, the problem is deeper going into next season (for a prospective manager looking at the task at hand)… Bradley and Allison are huge injury concerns. VVD is in the "handle with care" stage of his career. He can no longer carry the defense. The three other CBs have huge question marks over how they will perform next year. We've no cover at LB. We've no-one at all for the RW, nevermind having cover in the position. We've one fit striker who also now carries a question over him on how injury prone he is. And we've a bench consisting of unproven kids with only a few glimmers of quality in the mix if they all stay (Jones, Endo, Frimpong, Mac and Chiesa assuming you placeholder Rio for Salah in the first 11).

Even if you think you can get the best out of Gakpo, Grav, Mac and Dom, that is a mess of a situation to walk into.

Not to be too negative, I think one could look at…

Isak

Rio Gakpo

Wirtz Szobo

Grav

… and feel pretty good about what you could do with them.

Liverpool have been operating this way for over 15 years. I don't think it will be news to any new potiential manager.

The fact is if you want to manager Liverpool, you'll get a say in who comes in the door. But your word is not the final conclusion. It worked well with Klopp and Edwards for years. The jury is obvisuly still out on whether Hughes can continue in the mould.

Nobody on here or even the fans in the ground has an idea what the players and staff went through. I suspect that is why the noise from within the club may be more sympathetic than from fans regarding Slot. This counts for players losing conditioning and form as well. I have been hard on Salah but if Slot has the excuse of the club not preparing properly then he has as well.

Add in we have had terrible luck on injuries and transfers, well I guess our season is the result. The big question now is, do the higher-ups see a possibility of Slot turning it around or not. There seems to be obvious tension in the dressing room between the personalities and I guess those always come to the fore when you are struggling. Let's hope for some better luck next season so that everyone, players and fans, can at least be in a better mood about the club.

I think a lot of that comes down to inexperience at a high level. It's a whole other level of scrutiny that he's facing since joining Liverpool. Last season, things went well so not many questions were asked. This season it's been the opposite and when you're losing games and playing awful stuff as we have for the most part, whatever the manager says will sound inadequate. If we were winning games his comments would be seen differently. Someone should tell him to just keep shtum and stick to boring cliches cos he seems to be like a bull in a china shop with his comments right now. It reminds me of Brendan Rodgers in his time: A lot of explaining and talking about "tremendous" players and football while we were finishing well down the table.

The thing that has worried me a bit is there are no players coming out and speaking positively about Slot. It’s total silence apart from Salah. They haven’t said that the manager has supported us even though we had a terrible start or anything about how he might have protected them during the Jota thing.

I’m sure he must have - but I would have thought the could be a bit more vocal in supporting him.

Attacking midfielder likened to Kaka