Hopefully he makes a decision in the summer to relieve the Head Coach of his duties.
People will stay behind to say farewell to Mo and Robbo. If those 2 weren’t going I doubt there’d be more than a couple of thousand stay behind.
Maybe Alisson too, let’s see. (I think he still has plenty to offer and I hope he doesn’t go to Juventus, but that’s a clear possibility).
Beyond the players, my suspicion is Slot is a goner, and he will say goodbye to the fans on the last day, hopefully with CL qualification in the bag.
At that point it will be easy to be magnanimous as a fan. Ok a bad season, but he leaves with our gratitude as a title winning manager, and we can look ahead with renewed hope.
If he stays in the job, buckle up! It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
(And for that reason, I really can’t see FSG inviting all that trouble, when it is so avoidable).
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It is impossible now, surely for anyone to think Slot could turn this around give 5 years, let alone next.The things he doesn’t seem to grasp have been there for a year now, and he still doesn’t have a clue!
I refused to watch the post match tonight, because I knew it would be excuses, then we get the gem who thought we could lose from 2-2!
The way we fold a lot lately, it was almost certain.Plenty have done it.
To me he has given up,and should be put out of his misery.
Might help to dispel our unhappiness as well!
Look,bro, they literally served up two goals for us.
Our first came from a mispass from Amad that caught Szobo in the middle alone with him facing the entire backpedalling manure defence. He finished with aplomb.
Our second came from Lemmens fucking up his pass.
We had the luck and we still fucked it up.
What more can you say?
I think Jamie carragher actually has it right for a change. What we are seeing is the way Slot wants the team to play. He wants the slow, possession-based, typically Dutch style of play that we are seeing.
Slot’s problem seems to be that he’s just not very good at getting his team to play the way he wants them to in an effective manner. He wants to be a Guardiola but he’s nowhere near that level.
https://www.thisisanfield.com/2026/05/jamie-carragher-slot-klopp-liverpool-identity-worry/
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But there seems no style, we are supposed to be possession based? But then start evrygame by going long.
And don’t start me on our supposed defensive plan or lack of.
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It has been a nightmare season on many accounts, but it’s in difficult times that you can see if the guy at the helm has what it takes to bring us back and even improve us by learning from what went wrong. With Klopp, we had tough times to go through as well, but there was never the shadow of a doubt that we’d come back strong. Slot on the other hand? Nah, I can’t see it.
I should add that I don’t write this while angry because of the defeat at OT. We had no genuine striker on the pitch, it was always going to be difficult. But Slot shows absolutely no sign of having a clue about how to address the ongoing problems. If he’s allowed to stay, there is every chance that we’ll continue in the same vein next season.
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Losing at Old Trafford is always painful.
Its the manner in which we lost that is causing me the most annoyance.
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It is looking more likely now that Slot has massively lucked out with a well trained squad that just needed a slightly more conservative approach after going up by a goal coupled with the residual effect of superior physical conditioning by Klopp’s team…
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I think we can only get worst. We are just rinsing and repeating at the moment and that can not bode well.
We have too many players doing the same thing all the time and they are not suited to it or not in a position where that should be done. It’s atrocious coaching imo.
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Starting to become more and more undeniable now. That conditioning started wearing off my sidle part of second half of last season which is why we saw these alarming drop off in running stats which would leave the team vulnerable to the opposition. At home against Wolves being an example. And if you ally to that Slot’s reluctance to use more than 14-15 players it’s a recipe for disaster. And then the club made it worse by selling Diaz, Nunez and not properly replacing them with players that could genuinely challenge for starting spots. So our pool of serviceable players got even smaller. He was hardly using Quansah or Elliott so them leaving didn’t make much difference but he then doesn’t even bother to use kids from the academy. Never mind Chiesa or Endo.
And all the while the fitness levels keep dropping. We were the fittest team in the league. Look at us now.
Now it totally makes sense to me why Macca has looked so shit. He’s more of a skilled footballer than an athlete. So if he isn’t honed in the athletic part by intense training, he isn’t the footballer we bought that could run the show any more.
Everything that we see on the pitch is a reflection of what’s happening in training. The lack of fight, of urgency, of fitness, of physicality, of organisation speaks volumes about what is being done at Kirkby.
That’s not even the worst part. We now have a team of handsomely paid footballers who’ve become accustomed to slacking off, to taking it easy and ultimately to losing. It doesn’t matter how badly they perform or how poor the results are, the players still know that they’ll get light sessions and days off in the middle of the week. Slot has made losing easy to stomach and under him standards haven’t just slipped; they are a distant memory.
Klopp’s hard-working culture that Slot was rightly praising when he first came in is a thing of the past now, and the longer this is allowed to go on, the more long-term the consequences will be.
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Football is a physical contact sport in the end. For technique to flourish, you need Stamina, Strength and Pace to go with it…I wonder what led Slot to think that you don’t need to be at 100% physically strong to compete in the PL and UCL…
You might get away with it at a lower intensity in the Dutch League but there is a fucking reason why Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV didn’t even make it to the knock-out phase playoffs (with Feyenoord being fucked in the 3rd qualifying round by Fenerbahçe) in the UCL while Bodo/Glimt, Qarabag and Olympiacos made it despite other leagues giving top money to the Dutch League with eye watering amounts.
It would strongly suggest that Slot brought over that same philosophy into the PL and lucked out with Klopp’s well-conditioned squad in his debut season, only to find out right now that it all boiled down to his predecessor’s physical conditioning.
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This was highlighted in the most recent interview with Salah
and the last 40 secs of this video…
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Amusingly enough, as wretched as this season is, statistically this is still the runner-up in recent years of least successful seasons across all comps:
25/26: P53 W28 D7 L18 = 1.72ppg
22/23: P51 W25 D12 L14 = 1.71ppg
As always in this thread if you are doing anything other than doom-posting, it’s important to attach a disclaimer to avoid being considered a Slot sympathiser:
This isn’t at all meant to downplay how poor the manager and team have been this season.
I do think it’s important to provide context to the season and particularly from the post I’m replying to, the on-field diarrhea we are seeing isn’t in fact unprecedented in modern Liverpool history: it actually happened only 3 years ago and under arguably our best manager ever. And then 2 years again before that under the same manager.
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We still have 3 more league matches to go! Please don’t jinx us!
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A lot of supporters disagree with Gerrard as interim/caretaker for the rest of the season. Might be undertandable to be fair.
The season is shit, and the only saving grace is Top Five. And at the moment, thats not guaranteed.
So.
Sack him now. Today.
Appoint Virgil as player/manager for remainder of games.
The players might respond.
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