Liverpool FC - Talk /Gossip/Rumours 25/25

The problem we have with the squad, as you’ve just outlined, is that we now have too many injury-prone players, players past their peak, or players who simply aren’t good enough at the highest level.

I have serious concerns about us defensively.

Our right-back position has been one of the main causes of a lot of our issues this season, and I have no faith that either of those players can stay fit for next season. I’m also doubtful that Frimpong is actually up to the required standard.

There’s a strong chance that both Gomez and Konaté could be out the door, especially Gomez, which could leave Virgil as our only senior centre-half — and he only has 12 months left on his contract too.

At left-back, the fact that Tsimikas could now be back to being our backup LB is crazy if you ask me. He’s nowhere near good enough and hasn’t been at the required standard for the last two or three year

Agree. There are problems all over the place. A strong RB and RW and DM. That's 3 new players potentially without thinking about any other positions. But those 3 would solve a lot of issues if they're fit and firing.

Bet365 have suspended betting on next Liverpool manager (at the start of next season) as they seem certain it's going to be Slot.

Defence and midfield are absolute priorities for me. If they feel they need to replace Mo with a major buy that's fine, but I really want to see the early work done elsewhere.

Personally I think we need to sign 3 forwards this summer, with 2 of them being wingers.

I think it's fair to assume that Chiesa will be gone. Salah has gone, and Ekitike won't be fit until the end of 2026 at the very earliest which is half the season. It will take him a while longer to come back up to speed in terms of match readiness, but also he will have set backs.

Rio, Gakpo, Isak is the list of forwards available for use after that. I'm not entertaining the idea that Danns or Wright are viable first team options as 1) Slot won't use them, and 2) their quality level might not be high enough.

After that, a CM, and that will be the end of the recruitment for this year I reckon. It's not perfect, but you can't do everything at once and we're not going to see 7/8 signings again. It's not Football Manager type stuff. eg Kerkez was signed to be the new LB so he will be that. We're not signing another LB.

Yeah a loan is not a bad shout. One that sticks out to me there is Nicolas Jackson, who has PL experience, top club experience and could very well be available for loan again. Chelsea might not be willing to deal though, and/or might force an obligation into the mix.

Bring back Nunez on loan for the year. The club could do with his craziness.

Nothing contradictory at all. Ok Just to be clear. A poster I quoted literally said we would not have won the league last year with any other coach. It implies Slot is the reason we won it and was the sole difference from the previous season, ignoring all other factors. I found the opinion absurd, that's all. It implies all of the credit should go to Slot. My response did not imply Slot should not take any credit, ofc he should, just not all of it.

The phrasing you use in your last paragraph is amusing if nothing else "he won us", "his terrific season." He played a part, which I have given him credit for, nothing more. So you can retract your comment about me removing credit.

Could you explain your comment about him being suited to circumstances of one season but poorly suited to the next? Are you implying he has no control over our fortunes?

In that reply you did explicitly say that Klopp would have won the league the year that Slot did, and that’s what I disagree with. He may have done, but there’s no guarantee he would have. Honestly by the end of Klopps last season the squad looked done with his coaching, so I’m not sure they would have come back with an 80+ point total.

But anyway, it’s moot. I think all you’re doing when you say that you think Klopp would have won the league is minimising Slots influence, as if he just had to turn up and do nothing. And considering how hard it is to win a league title, I think it’s unfair on Slot.

My comment with regard Klopp has to be taken in the context it was mean't, a reply to a comment that we would not have won the league last year with any other coach. I simply find it more plausible that we would have won it with Klopp than not have won it with any other manager other than Slot. Do you think we would not have won it with any other manager than Slot?

I don’t think it matters whether I think Klopp or someone else would have. The only thing I think is important is actually winning it.

Regardless of who we think could have done it, Slot actually did it, and it was an incredible achievement.

What I do think is that fans have such a low opinion of Slot after this season they’ve convinced themselves that he’s so bad that he couldn’t have possibly had much to do with our league winning season, which is a shame.

You think we have enough cover in midfield?? We play 3 in midfield and we have Grvenberch, Szob and macca with only jones behind them who Slot also doesn't trust fully or might even be leaving this summer tho I doubt it personally. Who am I forgetting?

We don't have enough cover in ANY position on the pitch as things stand imo.

Klopp was burnt out, that's why he decided to step down. There's little point in theorizing in what might have happened had he stayed. I'm thankful that he wasn't at the club when Jota died because I feel that would have destroyed him.