“Give it G̶e̶r̶r̶a̶r̶d̶ Heitinga 'til the end of the season”
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great article:Xabi Alonso worked wonders at Bayer Leverkusen. Would his tactics and style suit Real Madrid? - The Athletic
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Sadly, I believe you are right. Although since roughly the end of November I was OK with Slot gone.
I actually stopped following LFC in the PL back in December… tried again when we played Wolverhampton, 
that. I was looking forward towards the CL game.
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Me too, I think the drop in performance affected a lot of fans emotionally last autumn, but its increasingly looking like the manager will remain and the Directors stick with their plan.
I dont think this has a happy ending though. My feeling is Slot isnt capable enough, and crucially, I dont think he gets the club like Benitez and Klopp did. So we have to wait until the formula has thrown up the outcome. I’ll be dead straight, I think Hughes, along with Edwards, have gone balls deep cybermetrics, and are running a corporatist venture with our great club.
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Edwards has less control than he did last time techically. I am not that surprised they haven’t sacked a manager who won the title and is still in the running in all the competitions they expected.
It really isn’t that much of a shock.
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Its probably even worse than that in reality. Id imagine most neutral observers would have viewed those first 50 games and said the results were no more than we deserved, and maybe even we deserved a little bit more. I think those same people would say that over the last 50 we got more than we deserved form them.
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Well, still looks like a corporate re-fit to me. Has a top club ever attempted this before, what is looking like swapping out the entire first team in say 13months? Its ambitious and now we’ve seen, volatile.
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Bar Quansah we needed to make the changes in the summer, take Kerkez he was the best LB in the league, he has started to look the business.
In fact in all honesty the one player they didn’t need to replace in Quansah they didn’t. In fact if it is based on metrics you’d expect to him have gone by now.
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Yes, well when you get to this point of understanding of the situation, it does beg why was the squad replacement not feathered in the preceding years, to soften the impact, because wholesale changes like we have seen, and to come again this summer, simply destroy the spirit of the team. It should be done more organically than last summer. Because that wholesale change in players is the devil in this detail.
Sounds like Jurgen apart from the 1st one
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Sounds ideal.
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Liverpool - Premier League Champions 2025/26?
Of the team that won the title, we got meaningful minutes from 8 players who were relatively recent arrivals (within the past 3 seasons) plus decent minutes from an emerging younger player like Quansah. For all the “we were paralyzed by Ward’s unexpected exit” talk, that is actually a decent level of productive turnover (not just signings, but singings who actually played and stayed) for an already successful side.
I think despite that turnover there were still some long term stalwarts whose long term replacements needed to be found. We were subject to a couple of situations outside of our control that required a response (in which I include the inevitability of Darwin having to go). And on top of all of that we had a manger who claimed for his vision to be realized he needed a series of additional changes, and Hughes and Edwards supported that. The result was more turnover than we probably should have made. I think the backroom guys should have been less compliant with Arne’s wishes explaining that a continuity appointment shouldnt have so many good (and young) players he is unable to find a use for, but they didnt. They should have been more circumspect about moving on players who didnt need it given the rest of the changes that were enforced. So the result was I think we did too much at once but it wasnt because we’d been backed into it by not having done the work in the years prior.
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Thank you, good answer. Do you think winning the league at a canter led us into a false sense of confidence, which enabled the amount of changes that were made?
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It’s possible I guess, but I dont know how that would flow.
I have wondered whether Edward’s past success in the market gave them “smartest man in the room” disease and where they should have taken a breathe to say “is this move one we really should be making given everything else” they over rated their ability to improve our situation by doing clever shit in the market. If I was to put my money on it, this is why they backed Slot to the degree they did because it allowed them one more opportunity to show how clever they are
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Just watching a redmentv YT video and it is the same criticism from all 3 and what most of us are saying/thinking, what is the plan? what is Arne trying to do? what is our style of play?
This is the crux of us feeling there is a need for change.
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sound more like Benetez…
It is a bit sussed that this 100 thing cropped up recently.
So if somebody uses this 100 games total as a statistic (owners maybe, do they even watch the games, can they only see the positive bits) and forget the performances have been on the most part piss poor since March 2025. Then the difference equals 9 additional defeats compared to the first 50.
No one really cared for that though last May as it brought home a record equalling 20th title.
The draws are roughly the same as the first 50 so sort of not in consideration. Even though a lot of this seasons draws have been the most frustrating games to watch for fans. But this 100 ratio thing is not interested in Coach/Team/Player performances.
So listed below is all defeats in the latter 50 - and then you could add which ones would be definitely expected to be victories as a benchmark from an ownerships perspective? - I’m only realistically seeing 4 matches. So is the difference therefore only 4? Hardly jumps out at you as a club in a crisis period. There are plenty of matches still to be played of course and the ratio could look far worse overall for Slot. But they aren’t even in contention as the metric is 50 vs 50 = 100
It’s sounding more like a club prepared media thing now to get in more perspective.
If Alonso doesn’t fancy the pressure that goes with the LFC job, then I would expect Slot is given an extension 
And it really is a long yawn of a read, so if you got this far then apologies.
This Season
Galatasary 1 - 0 Liverpool
Wolves 2 - 1 Liverpool
Liverpool 1 - 2 Man City
Bournemouth 3 - 2 Liverpool
Liverpool 1 - 4 PSV
Liverpool 0 - 3 Nottingham Forest
Man City 3 - 0 Liverpool
Liverpool 0 - 3 Crystal Palace
(Forget that Carabao game above as that was basically a test for players who don’t get starts this season. They didn’t set out to win it.)
Brentford 3 - 2 Liverpool
Liverpool 1 - 2 Man Utd
Chelsea 2 - 1 Liverpool
Galatasary 1 - 0 Liverpool
Crystal Palace 2 - 1 Liverpool
Crystal Palace 2 - 2 Liverpool (Shield Pens)
Last Season
Chelsea 2 - 1 Liverpool
Brighton 3 - 2 Liverpool
hold onto your hats…
big news incoming…
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