Perhaps it is just as simple as he and/or his wife and/or his family wanting to live in the SE. It often is and is something fans rarely consider…and is almost never reported or acknowledged by those involved.
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If Alonso turns us down I’ll be dissapointed but I can handle that.
If we dont attempt to sign him because we’re keeping slot, that’ll do my head in.
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This is the thing. We don’t even know if the club made an attempt to get him. By the looks of it, we haven’t and are content with Slot for next season… 
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Alonso forcing Liverpool’s hand. The clock is ticking.
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Chelsea may want a quick deal but if Xabi has any interest in the Liverpool job it’s simply not in his interests to move anywhere before we’ve clarified our position on Slot… which looks unlikely to happen until after the Brentford game.
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I do not believe that that they have not already fully communicated to Alonso what their intentions are for next season and especially if they were ever seriously considering employing him.
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Looking like you may be right,but whoever takes that decision is certainly in a massive minority.
Where this leaves the club and fans doesn’t bear thinking about.
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Looks like he is off to Chelsea. Announcement imminent now as reported by many journos now and he will be given hand in transfers as well
Hughes and Edwards have well and truly shafted this club big time. People need to stop reverring them as Godly figure here.
If he was the best manager available right now,he should have been sealed and signed already. They dilly dallied on Guehi, Semenyo and now truly shafted us when it was clear as day Xabi was holding out for us…before Chelsea deal.
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If FSG had any long-term interest in this club (apart from getting paid), after what we’ve seen this season, they would be running through walls to get Alonso.
This increasingly looks like building a sale portfolio.
But Xabi would also make a immediate sale easier as he looks a much ‘sexier’ choice. FSG - who I don’t think are looking to walk away - are not going to extract a higher price by saving ~5-10m pounds on removing Slot while having the club languishing in mid table with players pushing to leave.
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Possibly, but I think the more striking observation would be, mostly new owners want their own people in, so a risk Alonso would also be looked at coming with a pay-off liability. I think we’re easily more sellable without a manager, say by summer 27.
It’s just a theory though isn’t it.
Several things for me don’t make a lot of sense in it and still don’t. I can’t think of an example where a selling club hasn’t at least made it somewhat clear in some form.
It seems to fall on the fact that Slot evidently has lost the plot and yet no one seems to think he should be sacked within the club.
Also I’m pretty sure there was talk we weren’t keen on Alonso last time so not sure why he was suddenly our number 1 choice.
I’m not sold on the idea but I do think it’s worth keeping an eye on Iraola news as it’s odd that no substantial links have yet been made on his next destination.
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There were a few months between Klopp leaving and Hughes joining announcements. Alonso took himself out of the running, announcing he was staying at Leverkusen in that period so whatever our analysis of him was wouldnt have featured in Hughes search. There have since been stories that he wouldnt have rated better than Slot anyway, but you always have to question the purpose of such stories and what they are trying to spin
If we pass on Alonso to retain Slot, that seems like a terrible decision. The arse has fallen out of it under Slot, and there’s no evidence he can turn it around.
If we pass on Alonso because we prefer another manager to replace Slot, we will get the reset we need and then let’s see what happens.
The Iraola shout is interesting.
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You think so?
I was given the opposite impression, FSG are here for the next decade at least. The way they were spending on transfers.
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Im just suspicious it could evolve this way for next summer.
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Not quite that, rather that an evidently incapable manager isnt being replaced. That Henry is 76yrs old, and seems increasingly less involved. Also, that buying up lots of new players, young and on decent contracts, are also simultaneously attractive assets. As is also a manageress club, in the context of next summer when Slots deal would be up. That would actually be a peak LFC sale portfolio. Of course it’s a theory, and we aren’t there yet, but it could go this way from here.
He’s not been that involved for years.
He comes twice a season and I believe has come once this.
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Involvement isn’t just attending games. But he remains 76 <77. It’s sort of a late retiring age.
Agreement in principle for Xabi Alonso at Chelsea
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