Liverpool FC - Talk /Gossip/Rumours 25/25

It's still to be fully seen what was happening in the dressing room. From Robbo and Konate's comments, a picture is emerging of a squad with a weight on them from Jota's death. The clearest evidence of "lost the dressing room" was Salah… and if he was the lead voice of criticism, he's gone now. Legend of a player but he threw his toys out of the pram twice last season when he should have been leading on and off the pitch. My biggest concern of similar behaviour under Iraola (assuming it's a slow start) would be Szobo. What Iraola needs in the side (and I've made this point before Slot was even gone) is leaders. VVD is the only true leader there who seems to be able to say the right things and keep driving the side in the dying minutes of a game. Nobody last season was doing that. Iraola needs more of that on and off the pitch.

Benítez too was the same profile. Much less budget than the big 3 of Real Madrid, Atletico and Barcelona but won La Liga twice with Valencia and nobody outside those 3 have won it since (I know Atletico were second division back then but they became strong again after promotion)

Iraola seems more of a people-person than Slot. I think that will go a long way to getting the ship back on course. Hopefully we can add a good few back-up cheap signings to the squad and at least 2/3 first team players. Our squad has been depleted a lot with the likes of Nunez, Elliott, Kelleher going and not being really replaced. We've been unlucky with injuries too. Bradley, Frimpong, Isak, Ekitike, Alisson that I can think of. So we need more squad players to plug gaps. Also, Iraola's football will be more intense so let's hope players can stay fit. There's a lot to be seen but I think we should all feel a lot more positive. There was no way Slot was going to turn it around and looked like he had alienated players and just didn't have the personality.

Normally I wouldn't be optimistic about a manager coming from a so called smaller club in PL (record is horrendous in fact across the board) but this a guy who lost his 3 best defenders in summer 2025 window, lost his best forward in January and still managed an 18 match unbeaten run which included defeats of Liverpool and Arsenal and only lost 7 times all season (3rd best record in the league) to finish a kick of the ball behind Liverpool in 6th.

That hurts!😤

If nothing else it shows the ambition Spurs have (or lack of more to the point).

I agree on his ability and I would have been much happier keeping him but he is not the purchase of a team with ambitions for any serious challenge or building something - a kerkez like singing would be the type of move I’d expect of a team looking to build something.

Milner was only 29 joining us and could be argued he was still in his peak rather than in decline.

So FSG felt Alonso wasn't a good fit stylistically, yet he turned us down when Klopp left! That doesn't make sense; if FSG didn't think he was a good fit, it follows that there wasn't any offer for Alonso to turn down in the first place. if , however, there was an offer, then the " good fit " excuse doesn't hold water,! Also Alonso stayed at BL, so wasn't available when we needed a replacement for Klopp.

If Alonso did indeed turn down an offer previously ( which he was entitled to do) and this ruled him out of the running to replace Slot then that's a bit shortsighted by the club. We don't know what really happened, whether there was ever any offer or if Alonso was ever considered ( either to replace Klopp or Slot). I don't like this bashing of Alonso just because he is now Chelsea manager, and I wouldn't rule him out of becoming Liverpool manager/ head coach down the line. Anyway, hopefully Iraola works out and we don't need to look for a new manager/ head coach for a few years yet!

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Spurs signed him for his experience and leadership, which is sorely lacking at Spurs. They won't be mounting any title challenge and players with ambitions won't be signing for Spurs right now. They need to rebuild the club, Robertson will help raise standards and ensure they don't drop, which is exactly what Spurs need right now, in 18 to 24 months, he'll likely be surplus to requirements there. It suits both player and club.

They didn't buy him though?