What is that factor though? I know we have discussed change in football, the move towards moments in matches like set pieces etc.
But my honest belief is that in Klopp’s best seasons we blast that away, we play football and steamroll the rest.
No matter what factors reduce the points differential between top and bottom, our performance over the season isn’t good. We all accept that, we might differ on reasons or analysis of stats, but the reality is that this cannot continue into next season.
Yet it can’t be more than an opinion.
Right now, saying this is as relevant as saying with Shankly at the helm, this season we would have won the league title as well.
We can’t rewrite history. Klopp was burn out, hence why he quit and so this season and last he was not able to win the league.
His ego gets in the way and makes him answer things defensively.
Spot on. You could sense it in him. His energy was spent and he needed to rejuvenate himself for his own health and mental wellbeing. I still remember what happened to Houllier (Rest in peace, gaffer) with his emergency operation and how he came back but wasn’t ever the same again. You could say that Ged had high blood pressure but the pressure of the job definitely played a huge role.
Also after eight and a half years in charge, Jurgen’s voice didn’t have the effect on the squad that it used to. It happens to all managers unless you change your squad in a major way like Ferguson used to (plus Ferguson had in build advantages and sporadic challengers while we had the cheating Man City but that’s another discussion). And I’m sure the nature of how we unfairly missed out in 19/20 and 21/22 plus accumulation of injustices of the Ramos CL final the ridiculously unfair allowing of the second leg vs Atleti in 20/21, and the crowd trouble plus Thiago’s injury in the Paris CL final just wore him out.
Bloody hell it wore us all out!! Imagine how Jurgen felt inside!
I agree with you. We are poorly coached in terms of tactics and fitness (it seems that way at least) and that’s the bottom line.
This is something that I’ve wanted to address for a while.
From all the excuses laid out this one is by far the weakest. This team was good enough to win the league last year and the club’s analytics department is elite. Apparently though, we were surprised from the renewed emphasis on physicality and set pieces. How is that most of all the other clubs with worse squads and data analytics coped better though? How is it that over the course of a summer we went from one of the best teams in set pieces to one of the worst?
This feels like a coaching issue, masqueraded to pass as club wide failure.
We are also dropping points home and away even without European fixtures in the mid-week.
It is not like what he said that the European fixtures are causing our away form in the league to tank!
Dropping from 1st to 5th is enough to make it a shit season and need addressing.
But looking at the points total to try and show we should have been lower is a bit misleading. If we finish fifth, we’ve been the fifth best team. How many points it took to be fifth is a function of what else is going on around us.
The league has always had strength in depth. Bournemouth, Brentford, Fulham etc have been there punching above their weight and taking points off the big boys for a while. You could maybe argue that it’s a little stronger this season than last, although I think it’s marginal, but Arsenal and Man City have improved their points total by about 10 points while we are currently 25 points back on last season’s total with two games to play (and that includes that fact we couldn’t even be arsed showing up for the last 4 games of the season last year). Villa likely to finish on more-or-less the same total as last season. Why have those clubs managed this league strength so much better than we have? Why has our GD dropped by 33 goals while Man City and Arsenal’s has improved?
The strength in depth has always been there because of how rich this league is. What it currently lacks is quality at the top of the league. This would be more obvious if Arsenal hadn’t been handed a fucking cakewalk to the Champions League final.
And yes we have been shit and lucky to get away with it. The context isn’t that West Ham 25/26 are a bit stronger than Leicester 24/25, it is that the other two teams in the top 3 last season have improved and we got worse - a lot worse.
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That seems like niche knowledge 
…I bow to the expert :0)
Well, he needs to present a narrative to his future employers that it is not his training methods that is causing LFC’s league form to tank despite a heavy investment to the club in the summer.
All it matters to him is his career. From his words and actions, the fans and this club is all but a fleeting thing for him.
If he really wanted show his current employers and the fans that he is committed to the club way back in Oct 2025, he would have moved from Manchester to Liverpool and spend more bloody time at Kirkby rather than the Manchester Airport.
https://x.com/TheAthleticFC/status/2055192835284963664
Something else is also on my mind.
I’d also like to bring up the topic of nutrition. With Mona Nemmer, we lost a top specialist; it’s quite possible that a change in our nutritional focus (different routines, altered optimizations, etc.) could have contributed to our loss of energy.
I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that there have been some “relaxations” in this area as well, and that they are no longer as strict about it as before.
I think you’ve figured it out - didn’t he immediately make a 9.15am breakfast mandatory? The players with kids were woken up at 6am, already eaten some toast and had three cups of coffee before they come in to work and get force fed dutch pancakes. It all makes sense now!
Hang on, that tweet doesn’t actually engage what Slot said. It looks at the 19 games where we have dropped points, but Slot said AWAY games. Of the matches it lists, 7 are home games. Not sure why Slot would say those are not problematic, but he is lamenting an away record. It still isn’t ‘most’ or to use his word ‘mainly’ but only two of those post-Europe pratfalls were in fact at home, 4 of 10 away came after Europe.
*High fat cheese 
The way we’ve been playing i reckon the teams been fed those special muffins you can purchase in Amsterdam!
Hence me saying in Klopps best seasons
