20 Feb 2026 19:06:16
Ed001 did you see Slota press conference yesterday?
I see he said we will be better now than before as our fitness levels are better, I find that very strange thing to say because he is admitting the players have only just got up to speed.
I would think that his is job in preseason to get them there or at least 85/ 90 % there and the last bit in the first few games not half way through the season.


Hopefully we are now fully fit and as teams tire toward the end of the season maybe we can come on and push for champions league title.
I don't know if am just hoping things change for the last part of a very poor season that started full of hope with the players we signed.

{Ed001's Note - I don't watch pressers.}

1.) 20 Feb 2026
20 Feb 2026 20:20:37
I saw it. That part absolutely infuriated me. This just confirms all of our suspicions regarding the blatant lack of fitness in the squad. We've all seen most of the players struggle beyond 70 minutes. Some of us have been baffled, some of us suspicious, and some of us have made nonsense excuses about "saving energy for the latter half of the season". 7 months in and we're finally fit? For a Premier League manager to even suggest such a thing is a sackable offence in itself. How is that acceptable by any means? I swear, every other presser he says something that reveals another reason he's completely incapable.

Why has it taken 7 months to get a group of professional athletes match fit? There's only 1 reason, a massive oversight in terms of conditioning. I don't care whether it was completely accidental or some whacky plan to "avoid burnout". It's unacceptable. It's 2025 not 1925, we know exactly how fit you need to be, the metrics are all there. We were the number 1 team in terms of fitness under Klopp, all the stats are in the system, and there's absolutely no excuse. I don't care if he wins the Champions League, the incompetence is unbearable. Send him on the first plane back come June.

2.) 20 Feb 2026
20 Feb 2026 20:45:03
How can he think this is a good thing to say? We are at the end of February and we are just getting started. He's just given them another week off. It really beggars belief.

3.) 20 Feb 2026
20 Feb 2026 21:31:34
I'm not making excuses. I don't know the ins and outs of our training (I know it's been mentioned that the intensity isn't the same as it was under Klopp), but Jota's tragic passing had a massive impact on our pre-season, so to me it's fully understandable that our fitness would be affected.

I think another major factor that does fall on Slott is the fact we celebrated the title win too early; the trip to Ibiza, whilst the season was still being played, was the wrong choice and has had a really negative knock-on effect on the squad.

4.) 20 Feb 2026
20 Feb 2026 21:33:04
Pre-season was disrupted, though, and it wasn't Slot's fault.

5.) 20 Feb 2026
20 Feb 2026 21:43:21
It's incredible how we won those first 7 games with mostly late winners or comebacks, and then the lack of fitness and grief kicked in during September, disappeared for Real, Villa etc, only to kick in again during November with us having a disrupted pre-season. Beggars belief.

6.) 20 Feb 2026
20 Feb 2026 21:55:14
I don't understand why people find that so hard to grasp, Patrick and Ron. It's fairly obvious when a member of the squad tragically dies a few days before pre-season starts, you're not going to get people doing the bleep test on the first day back.

In fact, pre-season probably didn't start in earnest until a few weeks, or even a month, after they came back, if they even had a pre-season at all. How can Slot force grieving players into a full pre-season program? It's not excuses, it's just how it is.

7.) 20 Feb 2026
20 Feb 2026 22:41:30
I predict we're going to be fully fit just before we play the Champions League final.

8.) 20 Feb 2026
20 Feb 2026 23:26:28
I hope so, FM.

9.) 20 Feb 2026
20 Feb 2026 23:38:05
Exactly, JK.

10.) 21 Feb 2026
21 Feb 2026 06:00:13
Come on, even if preseason is compromised, it shouldn't take this long to get players fit.

11.) 21 Feb 2026
21 Feb 2026 06:04:44
Pretty strange for me to comment about this specifically, but the user named PatricksBurger could very well be causing a lot of confusion in the days to come. Would it be too much to ask for users to choose names that aren't so close to existing users?

12.) 21 Feb 2026
21 Feb 2026 07:22:20
It's one thing if you don't accept the grief piece on fitness issues, but to be so flippant about the effect Jota's death will have had on the squad is wild and in bad taste for me.

13.) 21 Feb 2026
21 Feb 2026 07:55:10
Absolutely not, Changingofthegvardiol. For me, what's bad taste is criticising a player by saying he isn't professional for years, that the injuries are because he plays on a PlayStation all day and night (unfounded accusations), and then tarnishing him by using his sad passing as an excuse for why players can't defend set-pieces, run, press, or pass the ball except on certain days or certain months.

Of course the players will be grieving. Anyone who knew him will be grieving, including all his international teammates, but for me, it's not an excuse when things don't go well. I actually passed the rumour on here last year, through a close friend of mine, that Diego had a potential collapsed lung and was playing through the pain barrier. But that didn't stop him getting pelters.

14.) 21 Feb 2026
21 Feb 2026 09:29:10
Sorry, Patrik, I can look to change the name. Mine wasn't based on yours, but I haven't posted in years, so I'm happy to look into changing it if you are more active on here, mate, to avoid confusion.

{Ed033's Note - Ideally, you log out of PatricksBurger and register a new username.

15.) 21 Feb 2026
21 Feb 2026 09:56:18
Patrik, you can't create another account just to agree with yourself. ? It's another Salah / Aoe moment. ?

16.) 21 Feb 2026
21 Feb 2026 12:03:19
Ah, sorry, PatricksBurger, I was assuming that you were a new user on here who was taking the p***. That was bad of me to assume. Looks like you had a moment of inspiration, making a play on Paddy's name before I did. JK, I wish I had the time to do that, mate. Never say never though; might do it in the future, haha.

17.) 21 Feb 2026
21 Feb 2026 13:45:41
{Ed001's Note - I don't watch pressers.}.

The same, Ed. I'd be pulling my scalp out if I had to listen to this manager say he essentially forfieted 70% of the season just to get us fit.

@Fatwallet, don't worry. Hopefully, those accusing others of making stuff up or putting words in Slot's mouth just to bash him will see the light that he is the one bringing all this upon himself. But I know they won't.

18.) 21 Feb 2026
21 Feb 2026 21:09:21
I'm PatrikBurgher!

19.) 22 Feb 2026
22 Feb 2026 11:01:15
Je suis PatrikBurgher!

20.) 22 Feb 2026
22 Feb 2026 12:35:11
I don't watch the dressers either, there is a poster on TikTok called Si LFC n he just shortens it to a minute or two.