The squad is very imbalanced and also the team really look like theyre just going through the motions. i dont know what slot is telling them but him having to come out with a myriad of excuses every time is just sad. Hughes is just as much to blame for all this.
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I disagree. Having his shirt and number hanging up in the changing room or the fans singing his name at the 20 minute mark of every game cannot be easy for the squad to move through the different stages of grief.
Miss these 3 very very much.
Don’t know why Sky didn’t put Gakpo’s numbers up, maybe they were too embarrassed.
Leaving the emotion of Jota’s passing to one side, from a football perspective we undoubtedly miss his drive, directness, finishing, willingness to run in behind.
From that perspective alone he’s been badly missed.
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He was not remotely as lowly paid as keeps getting mentioned here, but we seemingly had no interest in putting him in our top echelon. We learned recently that the summer before City apparently made a tenative approach and I’d imagine that would have put $ in his eyes and then he saw that we were not going to come anywhere close to matching what he could get on the free market. This is was likely to be his last big contract and so I have no issue with him wanting to pursue that, especially when he didnt have to run away to some backwater to earn it.
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He was told he was going to have to make do with playing out of position again in favour of the big giraffe.
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The point here, at the risk of being repititive is that we do not know if it has impacted our season or not. None of us here know.
Your willingness to dismiss it completely is the key issue…
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Diaz earns around £12M a year at Bayern apparently.
i find it strange that we werent prepared to match that, given what he brought to the team at times
IMO there is more to his move than meets the eye
Its a lot of money to pay for a man about to enter his 30s for whom his hard running is a core trait. And one who was not always first choice last season. I get why we didnt want to extend him at that level, but I never liked the argument for why this summer was the best time to move him on given everything else.
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Not arguing, but they just look really disorganised to me, which is equally not a good look for Slot. Soft too.
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I miss 2 of them.
Feel free direct that to the person deciding how long is reasonable to get over the death of someone because that’s what’s out of order.
Or maybe, as I’ve suggested, everyone leaves his name out of the discussion around sacking the msnager full stop.
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Harsh on Diaz man, he was pivotal to our success too.
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I don’t see why there is a need to pile onto Slot while conceding that he probably isn’t the right choice going forward.
Sure, I do believe Jota’s death had an impact. And I also believe that we won the title last season because Slot got a lot out of Salah, Diaz and Gravenberch who pretty much had career years.
But that doesn’t mean Slot can turn this team around. Sometimes there just needs to be a change because there needs to be a reset in confidence, in spirits and in ideas.
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really?
cant see the error of your ways?
that desperate to win the internet?
Jotas death is not irrelevant to the discussion of LFC. his family, is.
cant draw the line between the two? i despair.
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We talking about players/management/fans using Jota’s death as an excuse/reason for the decline of the team. It has nothing to-do with the grief anyone is feeling, I take issue with the grief being used as a crutch. Is this too difficult for you to understand?
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Do you realise the argument is at cross purposes?
Your position. is valid as a continuing cause, but is perceived as denying it had any effect.
Whereas on balance, it did have an effect, which was to hasten our destabilisation as a team unit. From then it’s all about coping and recovery. A death happened, and to deny it didnt even have a destabilising impact, is quite misplaced.
Our poor form now, is not to me causally linked to this, its now more Slots incapability to repair it.
Truth is it actually was the start of a huge shit sandwich for the club as has been the entire season.
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Maybe we should stop this Jota discussion. Gets us nowhere except in kinda ugly places.
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Some info here https://www.thisisanfield.com/2025/07/liverpool-made-two-attempts-to-extend-luis-diazs-contract/
We weren’t willing to pay what was being asked and age was a factor in that too. Rather than try and keep him on the contract he was on, selling/allowing him to move on was in some ways a nice thing for the club to do. Accepting that it was his best time for a final big deal in his career and that offering him the same wasn’t something we felt we could do.
Stop guessing at how grief might affect someone and how long that may last. Be that to try and rationalise a poor season or moaning about others using it as an excuse. We can never know so all it’s doing is creating an argument around a tragic incident.
Pretty simple concept really but argue amongst yourselves if you wish, reminded why I’ve been giving the place a swerve.
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