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

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Ban-jani said:
Even if we go with that, they were immense in those 3 years and Klopp spent fuck all in comparison to everyone else.

We defeated him overall, it’s ok to dish out a bit of respect to a great side.
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The football they played was like pinball round the edge of the oppositions box. The high press as well where they’d get it back and launch it deep into the channel for Salah and Mane to get after. That game in January 2019 where Sane scored the winner was one of the best games I’ve seen of two very good sides going at each other.
 
Ban-jani said:
They think we benefited from VAR. The truth is neither benefited to the tune we’ve seen Arsenal benefit this season.

They challenged us in 2019, won it in 2020, challenged us in 2022 and were not far off again in 2024. I make it 4 seasons they were challengers.

United weren’t even close to being a threat, have they actually finished within 10 points of us in that time until this season?

We had two 90+ point finishes, that went down to the last day against Liverpool.
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Liverpool benefited from VAR to the same extent Arsenal did last season in 2020 to gift them the league.
The first year of VAR referees were completely gripped with indecision on the pitch and were only giving decisions if a player flopped to the ground dramatically, VAR would then review it and decide that there was 'contact' and back up the decision of the on-field ref. This state of affairs suited teams who used diving and 'initiating contact' and so Liverpool, who were known divers, benefitted the most.
How can we forget the Liverpool - City game with Oliver in charge where the refereeing was so bad and so one-sided that rival fans were claiming the VAR was broken in that game. We saw Rodri get dragged to the ground by his neck from behind with the pundits saying "he's gone down a bit easily" meanwhile a hand would brush against Salah, Mane, Firmino, Jota, Szoboszlai, Alexander-Arnold, etc, etc and we'd hear "well, there's contact so he's entitled to go down".
Both Liverpool and Arsenal have taken advantage of the referees uncertainty and poor decision making skills in the VAR era, sure Liverpool were capable of playing decent football unlike Arsenal, but both manipulated referees by cheating to get results, they just did it in different ways.
There's a reason fans of all clubs have been posting LiVARpool and VARsenal memes everywhere since it came in with barely any Varchester City equivalents, and it isn't just because of the ease with the names.
Honestly, I think that's the biggest reason for Liverpool's drop off under Slot, in the few games of theirs I've seen there has been nowhere near the amount of diving and playacting as there was under Klopp and they've lost the points that a Salah dive would have 'earned' them in previous seasons.
 
Ban-jani said:
Even if we go with that, they were immense in those 3 years and Klopp spent fuck all in comparison to everyone else.

We defeated him overall, it’s ok to dish out a bit of respect to a great side.
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You gotta be trolling with that comment. Could have been lifted straight from RAWK
 
mcfc136 said:
Alonso was there for the taking not even a month ago. Baffled as to why they didn't sack slot earlier and bring him in.
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Totally agree, That said there is that thing of it not always working out for ex players. Iraola would certainly be my choice. Sad to see Slot go, but the football he played last season was so poor.
That said, I am very wary about dropping a manager due to the style of football. West Ham fans complained about Moyes and look what has happened to them.
The grass aint always greener!
 
What the fuck is Liverpool doing ?

wouldn't they do it faster to get Alonso? They also signed 2 standout performers from his Leverkusen team

They are now getting Iraola?
 
Absolutely gutted if they get iraola. I'd take him right now in a heartbeat.
Think he'll be so much better than Alonso, who was INCREDIBLY lucky in his leverkusen winning season.
 
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