Liverpool Thread | 2025/26 | Slot Out (p382)

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normskih said:
Beaten by a better team, nothing wrong in that. Dithering over Guehi and Semenyo might have been a key as to why things haven’t happened this season. Certainly Guehi in defence rather than Van Dijk would have made a huge difference.
Hope the injury to Ekitike isn’t as bad as first thought.
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Spot on, PSG were head and shoulders above in both legs. They had poise and the flair to show up all the deficencies.
You could say they got us at the right time, but then practically every week is the right time at present. So many players off form or injured, but that cannot be an excuse when any team in the PL plays continental opposition. The league is rich enough and clubs make huge amounts so there is little credence to clubs claiming they have too many injuries.
So much is down to inconsistency along with the dilly dally over Guehi & Semenyo. Only "Eccles Teacake" (superb) and Szoboszlai have played consistently well with flashes from the others and down right rank form for many others....most notably IMO, VVD.
Still, always try and take a positive, that Ekitike will get better soon, Isak may actually manage to find form and we creep into the top 5.
You look at that PSG team and you hold that to be the standards we should be aiming for.

man on the moon said:
Do you reckon Slot is for the chop at the end of the season mate. ?
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I have to say I am torn. Part of me thinks it is too fast and we dont want to go down the Chelsea route of sacking a manager for one bad season. That said, his odd selections and continued belief in the one trick pony that is Gakpo beggars belief.
As much as I may like the idea of Alonso coming in, that old ex player thing can never be guaranteed. Perhaps finding replacements for VVD & Gakpo would be a better move than giving Slot the chop.
 
johnevans said:
Whilst I'm not sure about the language, I agree with your sentiments, dear 'jrb'..(!!)

I stand to be corrected but I read that last evening's loss to PSG was their 17th out of 50 games played so far this season? That's 34% of their games in 2025-26 which have ended in defeat.

That's bad enough a statistic alone for the so-called 'dominant force' of the previous 2024-26 season. But when you consider the start they had to this term (five consecutive league wins from the off, with inevitable attendant media headlines wondering who could 'stop them doing it all over again' and 'are trebles/quadruples on' etc?) and take out those games, it now makes for 17 losses out of 45, a much worse loss percentage of approx. 38%.

Their drop-off since last year has been incredible. And their 'footballing business' decisions (actual transfer dealings, transfer hesitancy and contract extensions for the likes of Van Dijk and Salah) are looking both unwise as well as very, very costly.

It all reminds me of the similar situation that has been going on with the Red Filth over at The Swamp in recent years (eg Sanchez, Ronaldo, various second-rate managers and players and so on, all brought in and shipped out for top dollar costs to their balance sheet..)

Long may it continue, says I..!
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34% loss rate after numerous seasons of sharing the title with us.

Worst defence of title sharing ever.
 
Cellarite said:
It shows that people believe the shite that the likes of Carragher and Neville spout without thinking for themselves.

In a similar way, Neville has often claimed that United aren't a sacking club. What he means is that they didn't sack Baconface. Before he joined in 1986, they'd just sacked Ron Atkinson. Since Ferguson, they've sacked David Moyes, Louis van Gaal, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Jose Mourinho, Erik Ten Hag and Ruben Amorim. Six managers sacked in a 13 year period, but they're not a sacking club.
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The Old Trafford boardroom has seen more sacks than Bonnie Blue.

I'm going to start referring to the swamp as Sackville Street
 
Cellarite said:
It shows that people believe the shite that the likes of Carragher and Neville spout without thinking for themselves.

In a similar way, Neville has often claimed that United aren't a sacking club. What he means is that they didn't sack Baconface. Before he joined in 1986, they'd just sacked Ron Atkinson. Since Ferguson, they've sacked David Moyes, Louis van Gaal, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Jose Mourinho, Erik Ten Hag and Ruben Amorim. Six managers sacked in a 13 year period, but they're not a sacking club.
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And between Sir Matt and the BFR, they sacked Wilf McGuinness, Frank O'Farrell, Tubby Docherty and Dave Sexton.
 
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Maintainin said:
"And the armchair manager of the year award, goes to"

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Who is going to be stupid enough to pay £40 million for van Dijkhead?
Mickey van de Ven is on the verge of being relegated with Spurs. Why would you buy a player, whose current club has just gone down?
Caiceido rejected you once. Why would he want to move to Klanfield now?
 
johnevans said:
Whilst I'm not sure about the language, I agree with your sentiments, dear 'jrb'..(!!)

I stand to be corrected but I read that last evening's loss to PSG was their 17th out of 50 games played so far this season? That's 34% of their games in 2025-26 which have ended in defeat.

That's bad enough a statistic alone for the so-called 'dominant force' of the previous 2024-26 season. But when you consider the start they had to this term (five consecutive league wins from the off, with inevitable attendant media headlines wondering who could 'stop them doing it all over again' and 'are trebles/quadruples on' etc?) and take out those games, it now makes for 17 losses out of 45, a much worse loss percentage of approx. 38%.

Their drop-off since last year has been incredible. And their 'footballing business' decisions (actual transfer dealings, transfer hesitancy and contract extensions for the likes of Van Dijk and Salah) are looking both unwise as well as very, very costly.

It all reminds me of the similar situation that has been going on with the Red Filth over at The Swamp in recent years (eg Sanchez, Ronaldo, various second-rate managers and players and so on, all brought in and shipped out for top dollar costs to their balance sheet..)

Long may it continue, says I..!
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Its money laundering it keeps all the red tops going
 
Like I said in the match thread last night, the dippers can play some nice stuff but they have no end product at all, Wirtz is a great example of that, and defensively they're a shambles.
 
I think, since the season began, Slot has been trying to do too much at once and it's beginning to tell on him.How much say he had in the arrival of their signings I suppose we'll never know, but I get the impression the owners, drunk on the success of the title win and flushed with largesse, just did what Chelsea seem to do - throw money at it.
Like the old saying goes, 'All the gear, no idea.'

If they'd brought sensibly and strengthened the areas where it was most needed, and spent this season bedding the players in and securing CL football again, this campaign might not have been the disaster it so obviously has been for them.

I don't care one way or the other but their fall from grace cannot just be down to Slot's failures.
 
Vienna_70 said:
Mickey van de Ven is on the verge of being relegated with Spurs. Why would you buy a player, whose current club has just gone down?
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We bought Ake from a relegated Bournemouth, been a great buy. We got Ortega from a relegated team, got Ait-Nouri from a wolves side that barely survived last year. We did also buy Kalvin Phillips from a relegated side though in the interest of fairness.

Van de ven is a great player, they'll be plenty of interest from big sides for him, i'd love him here to give us potentially the quickest back line in existenece were it not for his inability to stay fitter than Stones.
 
Vienna_70 said:
Who is going to be stupid enough to pay £40 million for van Dijkhead?
Mickey van de Ven is on the verge of being relegated with Spurs. Why would you buy a player, whose current club has just gone down?
Caiceido rejected you once. Why would he want to move to Klanfield now?
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Caicedo is shit.

One of the most overrated players ever.
 
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LGWIO said:
Spot on, PSG were head and shoulders above in both legs. They had poise and the flair to show up all the deficencies.
You could say they got us at the right time, but then practically every week is the right time at present. So many players off form or injured, but that cannot be an excuse when any team in the PL plays continental opposition. The league is rich enough and clubs make huge amounts so there is little credence to clubs claiming they have too many injuries.
So much is down to inconsistency along with the dilly dally over Guehi & Semenyo. Only "Eccles Teacake" (superb) and Szoboszlai have played consistently well with flashes from the others and down right rank form for many others....most notably IMO, VVD.
Still, always try and take a positive, that Ekitike will get better soon, Isak may actually manage to find form and we creep into the top 5.
You look at that PSG team and you hold that to be the standards we should be aiming for.


I have to say I am torn. Part of me thinks it is too fast and we dont want to go down the Chelsea route of sacking a manager for one bad season. That said, his odd selections and continued belief in the one trick pony that is Gakpo beggars belief.
As much as I may like the idea of Alonso coming in, that old ex player thing can never be guaranteed. Perhaps finding replacements for VVD & Gakpo would be a better move than giving Slot the chop.
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Sack Slot now is the only way. They wont do it but that is the thing that HAVE to do.

Otherwise they are going to keep him, sack him early next season, then next season is lost too. Then Liverpool have to start the whole journey again getting a good set of players AND manager together.... How long did that take even Klopp?

Snooze and lose, tough decisions need to be made when you think about the consequences. Though I suspect FSG dont see it like that.
 
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