Liverpool banter 4

10 Dec 2025 05:00:36
A couple of positives from last night. We didn't concede and Allison match fit making the top class saves again. Couple of negatives. Isak was dead on his feet after 20 minutes and the team not scoring from open play. But a wins a win. Hopefully not another false dawn.

10 Dec 2025 05:28:45
We beat a team that hasn’t lost at home in the champions league in 3.5 years and people are complaining that we didn’t score from open play?

10 Dec 2025 05:34:19
Endo agree on the Allison. Since returning his performances have kind of gone under the radar and he had conceded 9 goals in 4 games.

Last night his performance was back to his usual high standards and when he is on top form he’s a massive asset.

10 Dec 2025 06:52:27
Some posters will only be happy if we lose every game. They are not fans. I want Slot to turn this around, despite the poor football and average results. Can he? Possibly. We need a couple of good buys. Last night could be something of a fresh start.

The noise was fantastic, and I’m glad I made the effort and saw a great result in a wonderful city. I retired as a multimillionaire at 48, and nights like that are better than money. What support! I make friends wherever I go in support of the club.

10 Dec 2025 08:00:48
Wow, congrats on your early retirement SaulGravy. You're really living the dream of everyone one on here.

But I don't think posters are happy if we had lost. I believe that everyone wants the best for the team. If Slot can turn this around then that's great. However, based on what has happened since the start of October, most of us are getting increasingly disillusioned with him. We want the team to do well, with or without Slot. And recent evidence suggests that it would most likely have to be without him.

10 Dec 2025 08:52:10
Thank you, Dracred. You are a credit to the site. I was lucky to have a very good start in life and to ride the dotcom boom through university old boys. I hope everyone here is happy.


Slot may have just faced a perfect storm - a medley of unfortunate circumstances such as Guehi not coming, Jota, Leoni being injured. He’ll prove his mettle and ride out the storm for a top three finish. That said, it depends on January.

10 Dec 2025 11:20:39
The most recent evidence is 4 undefeated (2 wins,2 draws) . A win on Saturday then surely we have to stop caring about losing to Palace or Chelsea over 2 months ago.

10 Dec 2025 12:45:00
Have you done a lot of fishing since you retired @ItSaul?

10 Dec 2025 01:33:16
Well, I think that performance and result answers the pre-game doubts, or hopes, that Slot has lost the dressing room.

One match doesn’t make a swallow or however that saying goes lol

But if it were the other way around, then the Slot out brigade would be in full voice.

Kudos to Slot and the players. Given everything going on, that was a performance to be proud of.

10 Dec 2025 05:29:35
Unbeaten in 4 games, it doesn’t look like the players have given up on the manager to me.

10 Dec 2025 05:36:28
Can only go one game at a time.

Is this a corner turned or like Villa and Real another false dawn.

Brighton on Saturday will tell us more.

10 Dec 2025 06:03:52
That’s a bit of a cop out @JK. The way it’s phrased - let’s wait and see - gives everybody an ‘out’ after the match. So my question to everybody - put your money were your mouth is … will it be win, lose or draw? I’ll get the ball rolling - a win to the Redmen.

10 Dec 2025 06:17:01
WDW not really sure how that’s a cop out. I’ve not predicted the Brighton result I’ve simply said we don’t know if it’s a Corner turned or false dawn.

Personally I think we’re going to continue on this win some, draw some lose some unexpected games form for as long as Slot is at the helm.

I can see us drawing Saturday.


Where’s your money. Corner turned or false dawn?

10 Dec 2025 06:52:15
Hope so JK. I'm currently in the Slot out camp but will that sway if he goes on a winning run without Salah in the team and starts to remove the supposed 'problem' players from the dressing room? Will it transpire that Slot is battling with a dressing room issue and may hey come out of it in a job and with more respect than he had after the end of last season?
If that happens a lot of questions will come about regarding the ITK's predictions that he is a dead man walking basically? Didn't think the season would go this way but it would be a nice problem to wrestle with.

10 Dec 2025 06:54:21
3-0 to us. I think Wirtz is starting to click, Jones is outplaying Mac, the diamond formation gives us compactness, and Jogo and Jesus Saves will help with the clean sheet.

10 Dec 2025 09:14:53
I think we’ll lose against Brighton. We did better last night, but it still wasn’t much better, it was dire to watch and I only got the second half. We got the win, brilliant, but it was a flukey one. Rewind a year and we’d have smashed them despite their current form. They didn’t play well either, and we were gifted the win.

I don’t think much will change until Slot’s gone. We’re not scoring goals for fun like we’re used to. Expect more losses and draws, with the odd win every now and then. That's my guess, hopefully we can turn a corner but I don't see it one bit, there's no sign of it.

10 Dec 2025 09:39:48
Everyone hopes we go on a winning run, playing great football . but in reality is it just hope or do we believe it, we have played so poorly this year n we don't look half the team we were last year n that is down to the manager .

if he can somehow come up with a working formula then great if not he going to lose his job . we haven't lost in 4, but we played Sunderland, West ham n in Europe the slower game suits us . but letz hope this is the real corner turned.

10 Dec 2025 11:24:35
A lot of things are down to willpower and attitude of mind. You saw plenty of attitude and pain left out on that San Siro pitch. Cathartic.

10 Dec 2025 11:26:51
Starting to look like more wins and draws with the odd loss though Salah. Which would basically put us in the same situation as other top teams. Three of our last 4 have also been away from Anfield. Look we can only take it one game at a time but a win vs a good Brighton team this weekend would really add to the momentum.

10 Dec 2025 12:48:12
@Jk, sorry if it sounded like I was having a go, it wasn’t the intention, just more a case of seeing where we think we are now, before the Brighton game. I think we have turned the corner, which means everyone should have a few shillings on Brighton at the weekend.

10 Dec 2025 13:09:00
WDW i hope so.

A win on sat would be just what the doctor ordered.

10 Dec 2025 14:40:25
FM, if we beat Brighton I’ll feel a lot more positive, but it still doesn’t take away what’s happened during this bad patch. That run has genuinely derailed a lot for us, and for me it’s not something that can just be brushed aside or forgiven because of the odd result, unless of course we go ahead and win the league lol. It’s been damaging, not only in terms of points dropped, but in confidence, momentum, and the standards we’ve always held ourselves to.

Slot, for me is a temporary figure and it’s clear he needs to be moved on sooner rather than later. The longer this goes on, the more it feels like we’re drifting without a plan. A club of our size shouldn’t be stumbling around hoping things click - we should be setting the tempo, dictating the direction, and demanding better.

All opinions differ, mate. I’m not saying you’re wrong. I just can’t ignore the bigger picture. One win won’t rewrite months of decline, and until real change happens, I’ll stay sceptical.

11 Dec 2025 00:56:05
That 22/ 23 season we beat manU 7-0 we followed that up with 2 defeats and 2 draws in the league.

over the course of the season, I expect us to make top 4 with lots more ups and downs along the way.

10 Dec 2025 00:21:27
Sorry but I think some of the comments on here regarding Mo are a disgrace, he's easily been one of the clubs best ever players, he's delivered the same numbers year in year out, season upon season and all of a sudden he's tossed on the scrapheap?
Have any of you considered how we might have looked in previous years without him?
He's had his say and he clearly had his own reasons, was it naughty? Absolutely, but can anyone on here say with any certainty that there are zero problems behind the scenes? I doubt it,
And let's not be throwing him away after that performance tonight and a dreadful watch against Leeds also, we were hardly inspiring, nice result and very welcome? Course it was, but good performance? It was slow, boring and ponderous yet again, we barely created a thing up front.


Can anybody say a 100% that a new manager couldn't come in and change these tactics and all of a sudden Mo's firing again? The tactics are currently awful.
I'm over the moon with wins but anyone whose excited watching this clearly likes watching paint dry too.

10 Dec 2025 01:17:31
It's ludicrous to say in an interview that you don't have to fight for your place because you have earned it already. Cannot say that and expect no backlash. I'm gutted about it really but he has been performing quite poorly since March. Hope the situation can be resolved and he can start playing well again.

10 Dec 2025 01:31:50
He’s not all of a sudden tossed on the scrap heap. He tossed himself on the scrap heap.

10 Dec 2025 01:40:22
To misquote George Orwell, ‘All football fan opinions are equal, but some are more equal than others’.

10 Dec 2025 01:44:00
It is all a bit boring. The only way you get away with this kind of slow, high possession stuff is by what I think they call winning, but we’re not doing it much so I think we’re all a bit grumpy.

Mo, it’s all gone a bit handbags for my liking. Sad really.

Some of these new signings. We can’t be a high press monster machine with Isak up front. Watching him try to join the high press is like watching a sofa try to run a marathon—you’re mostly just waiting for someone to take it off the pitch. Which is what is happening. I hardly hear his name. Good player, absolutely yes, but a pressing monster? No, more like a traffic cone with a Liverpool jersey—part of the scenery, but not actually helping anyone much. I just don’t know how it’s all meant to fit together!

Then you throw in Wirtz, who has an incredible first touch, can skip around like an elf from LOTR, I think great vision but unfortunately most prem players are 16’ so he gets walloped off the ball and every other Liverpool player is playing Call-of-Duty or Carsh Bandicoot (if your Konate), so that’s no use either.

All I can say is, it could be worse, I could be Slot! And like him, I wouldn’t have a clue what to do! I do like him though, so let’s be at least nice, he’s trying his best.

10 Dec 2025 01:51:24
I don’t think Mo Salah should be starting games for Liverpool based on what he did a year or two years ago. He’s started 12 league games this season and scored 4 goals, virtually every Liverpool supporter was calling for him to be dropped and since he got dropped we’ve been unbeaten.
Not one person would complaining about it if he had kept his mouth shut but because he said something the fan boys that care more about their favourite player than the actual club are having a hissy fit.


Also, anyone expecting a free flowing attacking display against Inter away doesn’t know the slightest thing about European football.

10 Dec 2025 03:55:09
You can’t say that, Rum Lad. Mention Salah in a good way and some folks here go into meltdown mode instantly. I can already guess who’ll pop up first. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

10 Dec 2025 05:20:29
Virtually every Liverpool supporter was calling for him to be dropped?

Did you speak to all 500 mill plus then?

10 Dec 2025 05:32:42
There's a lot of misquotes about Salah's statement tbh. He never said he didn't need to fight for his place in the team. He said he didn't need to fight for his position. There is a subtle difference between the two since position could also mean him being a senior member and leader of the team, and that he should be respected as such. And I believe this is what he was referring to when he made that statement.

It does feel like the club wanted rid of Mo and went behind his back to approach other clubs and try to generate interest in him. And I stand by what my initial thoughts were that Salah being benched wasn't for footballing reasons or poor form. It was a power play by the club in them trying to create a reason why he needs to go, that he is the cause of the team's poor form. And it has worked with fans now saying that we're 4 games unbeaten since he was dropped even though our performance in each game was poor. Salah was right to be upset with the club for going behind his back with all this.

I don't think the club are squeaky clean in all this. They treated Mo poorly. If they had done the same to any other club legend like Gerrard or Dalglish, I think the reaction by the fans would be very different. But at the same time, Mo should not have put out that statement. That was a poor reaction by him.

Either way, I don't think Mo has a way back into the team now. That statement has well and truly burned bridges between him and the club.

10 Dec 2025 06:08:41
Google it.

10 Dec 2025 06:56:38
Mo is, along with Barnesy, King Kenny and Stevie, in the alltime XI, but I cannot abide his comments, even if he thought they would out into effect some change for the greater good. It’s time to send him off to do great works in the wider world.

10 Dec 2025 08:00:13
haha hissy fits. 8 days a week.

10 Dec 2025 09:46:48
" It was a power play by the club in them trying to create a reason why he needs to go, that he is the cause of the team's poor form. And it has worked with fans now saying that we're 4 games unbeaten since he was dropped even though our performance in each game was poor. Salah was right to be upset with the club for going behind his back with all this. "

And this Dracred, is what we call in the U. S Legal system, "Bad Facts". Notice that of all the people going after Mo, calling him every name but a child of God, I am yet to see a soul address. Why is that? Cos these facts are damning on the club's part, end of.

People can say Salah did it in public which shows poor taste however, that was a reaction to the initial reprehensible action of the club behind his back. Why is that part not being scrutinized publicly? Exactly.

The club wanted to stab Mo in the back on the down low by forcing him out BUT didn't have the balls to come, sit down with him and his reps. and hash it out like honourable gentlemen/ women.

Mo prolly found out that this is the reason he is being benched and scapegoated (which was till going on during the Inter game, btw) and then, went nuclear. Why do you think it didn't take long for the anti-Mo hit pieces to start flying off the printing machines?

This is all media propaganda to shield the club from it's own dirty hands, cowardice and lack of respect for a club legend and PL icon by scapegoating him for all our woes while forcing him out, which I find pathetic. And sadly, many of the fans ate the cheese cos of course, they will. That's the goal. Carra came out to do his schtick for a reason, too.

Sorry, propaganda doesn't work on me. Never has. Never will.

{Ed025's Note - where do you get this "the club was trying to force him out"Oli?, is this not propaganda?, its all guess work that is being paraded as fact, if you want to post tripe and speculation then please present it as that..

10 Dec 2025 11:31:12
The Salah situation can still be worked out if he apologises, unfortunately i just cannot see him doing that.

{Ed025's Note - nor me FM..

10 Dec 2025 11:36:38
Ahhhh it all makes sense.

Edwards and Hughes gave Salah a huge contract extension and then made Slot change his tactics so Salah played poorly all because they wanted him out of the club.

Makes sense.

{Ed025's Note - lets give Oli some credit for piecing it all together, is he the new Columbo?...lets wait and see.. :)

10 Dec 2025 14:18:11
Ed25, I am asking actual questions that seem inconvenient for some to answer, based on the actual news Ed01 has posted about this saga. This was in the works since October, per Ed01. I am open to being corrected by Ed01 but I read all this in read that part in red ink on this forum.

This is where I draw my conclusions and ask the questions I asked esp. cos I am yet to read where the club did the right thing as in, brought Salah in, hashed it out and then all of a sudden, Salah blew up and went to the media to throw his toys out the pram. Also and except I missed it, I am yet to see anyone from the club challenge Salah's words saying "Someone is trying to get me out of this club" BUT we do know that the club decided to force him out without his knowledge. What's up with that?

That's not propaganda. These are pertinent questions that it seems many of us ask BUT get no response.

Now if you have more accurate information then, I am happy to be educated. Always a pleasure hearing from you, Ed25.

{Ed025's Note - im the same as you (and everyone else) Oli in that i dont know the exact truth...and who would?, Salah, his agent and probably Edwards will but the rest are guessing mate, people are posting stuff to suit their own agenda without knowing the real facts and now its become a blame game..

10 Dec 2025 14:34:21
Ron, Salah has been benched before under Klopp time and again and he didn't nor ever cried about being benched. So why now? I don't believe for a second that Salah threw a strop cos he got benched.

Ed01 said getting Salah out the club was being worked on since October (Ed01 pls, correct me) so if they wanted to sell him then why in da hell did they give him a new deal? Is anyone asking that?

So you're telling me Edwards and Hughes just woke up in the morning saying, "Oh, we screwed up so now, we have top get him out", yeah? If that is the case then how is that level of incompetence Salah's fault? I got a lot more where all these questions came from, btw.

Listen people are free to not question anything you're being told BUT if something smells stinky and things don't add up? I will question it something ain't smelling right here esp. behind closed doors from the club itself.

{Ed025's Note - you see thats where the problems start Oli, you are regurgitating second hand information, you are relying on other peoples information being correct mate and that is not always the case im afraid, they may have told you in good faith but only a very small number know the exact truth..

11 Dec 2025 01:00:03
after a season where we heard endlessly that the club should have either signed trent two years ago so we could sell him for a fee or sell him the previous summer for a fee before we lost him for free, it is therefore only a good thing that we extended Mo with the benefit we have the option to sell him and get some money back.

11 Dec 2025 12:21:59
Every footballer who ever they are will end up on the scrapheap MO is no different he is a commodity of the club .
Father time makes sure of that Red Rum
But on the happy side MO won't ever have to claim universal credit to live on so stop worrying about MO mate .
YNWA.

10 Dec 2025 00:06:47
A very good result today. Wasn't it Inters first loss at the San Siro in Europe since 2022? Good interviews afterwards aswell as happy faces. More compact and solid display but we must get the win against Brighton and get back up the table. More positive mentally and with Mo away from the weekend less distractions in the media.

10 Dec 2025 06:57:23
We could easily win the next five or six and be sitting pretty vs. Arsenal. YNWA 👌.

10 Dec 2025 08:10:32
It’s not so much the words he (Mo) spoke, there was no need to go to the press. It just causes drama and a week of headlines.

Those conversations should be behind closed doors, not in the press.

10 Dec 2025 11:33:14
One game at a time Saul😆😆dont jinx us.

09 Dec 2025 23:26:30
I would use our lack of forward options as the chance to roll the dice and try something different. I would go Robbo left back, Kerkez left mid and Wirtz and Ekitike up front in a 4-4-2 (picture Mike Bassett screaming).

Szob right side and Grav/Mc (or CJ) centre. Don’t hold hope for Arne being willing to change formation mind and I am just a 54 year old long retired amateur footballer who’s never played football manager so I know nothing.

09 Dec 2025 23:38:43
What about Isak?
Are we throwing him under a bus? 😂.

09 Dec 2025 23:56:23
There really is no set formation of any kind that is going to solve our problems.

The result today was fantastic. We did limit them to very few chances, something Slot mentions every time I hear him these days. But this is where we are at. He has to start get something right and defensively seems a logical place to start. It's not fully right yet by any stretch of the imagination but we do seem to be conceding less chances. At least against the attacking mights of Sunderland and West Ham. Even Inter are not overly known for chance creation.

Hopefully we can get the defence working soon enough because work on the attack can't come soon enough. It is horrific at the moment. It's like we are spending 100 percent of training time defending and leaving the attack to whatever comes out on the day.

Its also incredibly boring to watch right now.

Slots style is very slow and boring when the attack is not slick like it is right now.

He is a game by game for me now and this was a good result and very solid but incredibly boring performance. Don't love it. It is what it is.

10 Dec 2025 01:05:46
I mean Slot has literally changed formation for the last two games with a 442 diamond. But again, no formation will change anything if they keep being instructed to not press and pass sideways.

10 Dec 2025 06:08:42
@Rigsby, with Isak’s general level of fitness we should, perhaps, throw him under a Zimmer frame.

For those the politically correct and those currently suffering from a general lack of good humour 😉😉.

10 Dec 2025 06:58:13
Isak would need a ramp to get anywhere near a bus.

09 Dec 2025 23:02:01
Lets put some respect down for CJ, who is growing up and putting a proper shift in.

09 Dec 2025 23:13:35
Jones always puts a shift in. Effort is one thing that cannot be denied with him. His main problem is that he slows down the play too much and dallies on the ball when a pass was on. He does have his moments though when he moves the ball on quickly and when it happens, he is brilliant.

09 Dec 2025 23:15:47
He didn't get where he is today without growing up and putting a proper shift in.

09 Dec 2025 23:24:07
🙂👏👏 @Rigsby.

09 Dec 2025 23:54:24
I think he’s slows it down when there’s nothing on.

09 Dec 2025 23:57:04
He stood up for the club today, on and off the pitch. He spoke very well before the match and then backed it up on the pitch.

He should be ahead of Macca in the pecking order imo, have thought so all season. He's the closest thing we have to Gravenberch with his movement.

10 Dec 2025 05:26:13
Thought Jones had a good game tonight. Overplayed it once in the middle where he picked up a Knock and yellow but apart from that was one of the better performers.

10 Dec 2025 06:58:47
Needs a haircut though.

10 Dec 2025 09:59:15
ItsSaulGravy, why? You ahve anything against people wearing a 'fro, lol?


CJ was outstanding last night and credit to him. The Inter players tried to rough him up and they all ended up in knots to the point of backing off of him whenever he was on the ball. Great perf. from him and a few others had good/ solid performances, as well.

Onto Brighton.

10 Dec 2025 11:36:13
Glad Jones is getting credit today, usually only gets mentioned on the site when he's made a mistake.

{Ed025's Note - he had a good game FM, i never thought i would ever hear myself saying that mate.. :)

10 Dec 2025 14:38:12
Ed25, Jones has been having good to great games since 2020 when he got integrated in the first team so you either ignored them or fell asleep whle they were happening or just watched them with your eyes wide shut.

In fact, CJ's coming out party was against you lot in the FA Cup where he ran your starting 11 into the mud and scored a banger of a winner with the MOTM to boot.

It's okay. You already bit the dust with Gini, Bobbie and Origi. You'll eventually get there with CJ.

{Ed025's Note - i think hes awful Oli, im sure a lot wont agree with me but i think he is very slow and negative mate, i want him to do well because hes a local lad and i like that, but i just cant take to him and that may say more about me as much as anything, he cant live his life on a speculative hoof against Everton though but like everything its just an opinion..

09 Dec 2025 22:35:51
Thats a pen all day in Europe, if the Italians had a chance to claim it, they'd be all over the ref demanding it . better performance tonight.

09 Dec 2025 22:45:30
Some Liverpool supporters will be devastated tonight.

09 Dec 2025 22:49:44
One of the few decisions that ref got correct.

09 Dec 2025 23:02:32
Too upset to post about a great win Thunderbird.

09 Dec 2025 22:52:57
Correct Darwin.

09 Dec 2025 22:53:41
Ref was quite poor, I was surprised we got the pen as I thought they went to great lengths to disallow a fairly legitimate goal so it felt a bit stacked against us . That’s VAR all over though, different country same old .

09 Dec 2025 22:56:52
I’m baffled as to why all the ‘experts’ are calling the penalty controversial. I’m not sure how much more blatant a shirt pull could be. It’s a penalty all day long.

09 Dec 2025 23:00:26
Evened out the cancelled goal decision in the first half really. We are due a bit of luck tbh.

09 Dec 2025 23:08:31
With a lot of help from VAR, Darwins.

09 Dec 2025 23:15:45
I thought we were lucky with the pen but it made up for the incorrect decision for Konate goal.
A much better performance from us all round tonight and there looked a togetherness. One thing I will say is wirtz looks loads better these last few games and looks like he mite have bulked out a bit.

09 Dec 2025 23:22:23
The penalty was no softer than the one we gave away at Galatasary. You win some you lose some.

09 Dec 2025 23:27:39
It was said that it would take a bit of time for the new players to integrate. Slot said he was signed for the next 5 years not the first month or so when he joined.

Personally, I like the 4-3-3 we look more solid and, I’ll say again, Konate looks a lot more solid with Joe playing RB.

09 Dec 2025 23:50:52
Thought the ref was shocking on almost every decision to be honest.

10 Dec 2025 00:22:29
Thunderbird. how on earth do you think that.

10 Dec 2025 01:05:19
You could be right Longthing. I remember reading somewhere that Wirtz has put on a lot of lean muscle since he joined us to cope with the physicality of the league. Not sure if it's true but he does look stronger now then when he first came in.

10 Dec 2025 02:44:40
Who's upset with a win?

Only thing I'm upset about is how boring we were. The result can only make that bitter watch slightly more palatable.

I just don't understand how Slot has us so slow and toothless in attack and so fragile at the back. We've got a long way to go.

10 Dec 2025 06:11:44
@Kim and @Salah both intimated last week that a loss would be useful in getting rid of Slot.

10 Dec 2025 10:01:10
Thunderbird 2, that's the way it is in Europe. They call that stuff tight. Inter have Bastoni to blame for being too clever for his own good. Not the ref who was pathetic on both sides, btw.

10 Dec 2025 11:40:52
WDW does that mean we have to play a CB outside him from now on for him to perform? i don't mind the solidness Gomez has helped give but i'd prefer a Bradley type at RB all day long.

09 Dec 2025 22:04:59
2 wins and 2 draws from 4 games and a great result tonight. Can we just have some positivity tonight?

09 Dec 2025 22:08:29
For sure Flo but why do we FINALLY start Hugo and Isak together and bench the playmaker for the playactor? I can get behind Slot when the decision making makes sense. It never does.

09 Dec 2025 22:11:14
@Florian, I said it the other day, the win against West Ham and the draw against Sunderland weren’t bad performances.

Tonight was a good result and wasn’t a fluke.

The social media lead storm aside the past couple of weeks have been encouraging.

09 Dec 2025 22:15:10
Because hadn’t Wirtz started the last 3 games in a row and had only just come back from injury two weeks ago….

09 Dec 2025 22:17:50
Not in the slightest. Hate to be negative, but we just play some horrible slow football. It’s not how we play.

People were saying “oh it’s the San Siro, against Inter”. Rubbish, we have been playing like that for a while.

09 Dec 2025 22:19:43
Agree Red

Perfect game for Wirtz to start -
Positives - if we were riding high in the prem we all would say that was a perfect European away performance

Negatives - is there friction betweem Issac and Ekitike? Just nothing in their body language that suggests they get along?

09 Dec 2025 22:19:50
Tightened up aswell over the 4 games besides the mental 20 mins on Saturday. Subs did well tonight. Oh a good win is food for the soul.

09 Dec 2025 22:20:05
Suits me, Flo.
Good European performance, that. We got a bit of luck with the penalty but we'll take it; especially after the disallowed goal.

How did it not make sense, Flyer? We won and kept a clean sheet. We had more midfielders and defenders out there for a change.
And we'll never know what you'd have done differently would have made sense.
Enjoy the win, mate.

09 Dec 2025 22:28:00
Cherish the result. We've beaten a top team in their back yard. Keeps our CL hopes alive.

09 Dec 2025 22:29:29
No Salah last 4 games, unbeaten. It's been quite clear the two wingers and CON-ate have been the biggest problems.

The suggested all season Diamond System 4-4-2 was the biggest winner and the future.

Regarding Souness calling us LFC fans muppets, there was only ever one muppet when you were LFC manager Graeme!

09 Dec 2025 22:41:01
007, Souness said Liverpool fans who wanted Slot sacked were muppets. Just to clarify.

09 Dec 2025 23:03:08
Good result probably unexpected if being honest, no matter what side of the fence we sit on we all have to support the team.

09 Dec 2025 22:56:11
And a clean sheet, against a team that has won 4 of their first 5 games in the CL.

It’s a bloody good result and a better performance.

We’re not dominating games, but that would be unrealistic. Take the positives, work on the negatives.

09 Dec 2025 22:56:32
And for once I totally agree with Souness. Slot masterminded that victory and the players were right behind him. Without individual errors we would have won the last 4 games. Give the guy time to make a post Klopp team. And ignore all those who think every manager under the sun is being contacted.

09 Dec 2025 22:57:52
Regards to us playing "horrible football", I'm not bothered so long as we win. I've said on here many times, football under the legend Bob Paisley was boring to watch, but we didn't care because we conquered all before us. If you also want entertaining, that's your prerogative. It's great if you can have both but, to me, the important thing is winning.

09 Dec 2025 23:24:09
Correct, Rome.
Watching Liverpool is the entertainment. The result is the most important thing and watching and not knowing is my entertainment.
If I'm a neutral then I want wide open and frantic three all draws.

09 Dec 2025 23:59:31
Different back then Rome with passing it back to the keeper but we played some great footy under Sir Bob.

10 Dec 2025 01:08:36
Why can't we be entertaining and still win though Rigsby? Those things aren't mutually exclusive. The peak Klopp years were a joy to watch and we won our fair share too. Even in his later years where we slowed down we still played decent football. Slot ball is even slower compared to that.

Granted I wasn't complaining last year when we won the league but this year is just way slower with players taking two or three additional touches before passing the ball back to the CBs. We are unbeaten in four which is nice but performances have not hit the heights we know our players are capable of.

10 Dec 2025 02:48:06
I'm shocked at people so starved for any positives they rewrite the recent past.

Good result today, but we looked terrible again and there's no improvements beyond the result to point to for me.

10 Dec 2025 03:12:42
Rigsby, you're correct. Thx for straightening me out. Lots of positives.

10 Dec 2025 06:21:24
The best football we’ve played in years was for about 3 or 4 months leading up to, and just after winning the World Club Cup just before Christmas 2019. We seemed to play matches about every couple of days and not only did we beat all comers (except the League Cup match against Villa when we played our u-12’s because the senior squad had gone to the WCC), we played the best football we’d played in about 30 years.

My own opinion is that if you play great football you’ll win things and both style and winning can, and should, co-exist.

10 Dec 2025 11:46:54
Wdw we also had a set 11 basically the same team every week for the past two years up to that Christmas of 2019.I would argue a much better team than today. A far better team than ANYTHING in this league at the moment.

09 Dec 2025 19:08:23
What did people think of Carragher monologue last night on MNF? Whilst I agree that it would always be preferred for Salah to keep everything behind closed doors no matter the cause but seriously carragher sounded like a right twat!

09 Dec 2025 19:22:13
I agreed with every word of it.

09 Dec 2025 19:23:57
Calling Salah a disgrace after his spitting incident doesn't sit well at all. At the end of the day it's just football, gobbing at someone whilst driving is an actual disgrace.

09 Dec 2025 19:28:29
I so despise the guy. He is a shameless bugger. He will do anything sky producers tell him to rile up the audience. Salah's comments were far from being a disgrace. People are making too much of this idea of nothing is bigger than the club. Well the people of Liverpool, the supporters are bigger than the club which is nothing but a corporate house.

09 Dec 2025 19:28:55
I only listened to it right the way through once Dow-ney, but the main points of his monologue I actually thought were pretty spot on. I don't normally agree with what he has to say, but unlike many on here to seem to just hate him for the sake of it, I took his points as a separate notion and on this occasion I think he was pretty measured and accurate with his statements, with exception to the "If you throw my club under the bus I'll go for you" comment.

That was a bit childish.

09 Dec 2025 19:35:14
He's a twat Dow-ney. He's only saying something to get him more clicks or whatever. Him and his boyfriend Rat Boy Neville are the worst pundits ever.

09 Dec 2025 19:41:30
I see he didn’t mention Stevie G flirting with Chelsea all those years ago.

09 Dec 2025 19:50:14
Whilst I don’t agree Salah shouldn’t have spoken to the press. The things Carra said were personal and despicable;

- Salah abandoned Trent for eight seasons. I bet he didn’t say that last season when he was breaking records last season.
- Salah was a Chelsea reject before Liverpool. Carra needs to step out of Bootle. Forget Salah averaged a goal nearly every two games for Roma, was excellent for Fiorentina and Basel too.
- “I’ve never criticised Salah on the pitch” even his colleague said, “you said last week his legs had gone”.
The general bitter tone he had was disgusting like he hated him. To cap it off today he responds to Salah’s pic on X and says “I’ve never wanted to win a game more”. Again like it was personal. This spitting tosser should be struck off. Again no nuance to Hughes, Edwards and Slot’s ineptitude.

09 Dec 2025 19:56:18
I think it sounded overly rehearsed like he is some sort of ambassador, his little notes were cringe and his points about national
Team and being a failure at Chelsea were very low. Did Carragher forget that Mo was clearly playing well to get his move to Liverpool and has been a phenomenon from day one. Mo is where he is because of Mo’s desire, commitment and professionalism and yes Liverpool platformed him and paid him well but Liverpool didn't make Mo and Slot certainly didn’t.

It was a complete hit piece on a Liverpool player from a former player and that is the real disgrace. Maybe Jamie might put a bit more scrutiny on a manager who has lost the confidence of his star man, overseen the worst record of over 50 years and spend almost half a billion on world beaters that he has now made into laughing stocks!

09 Dec 2025 20:03:36
A more ignorant, amateur and incompetent clown in the whole world of media, past and present, would be impossible to find. How he is employed by ANYBODY is just beyond my comprehension. A total Buffoon of the highest order.

09 Dec 2025 20:55:48
Agreed with every word except the bit where he’s trying to make a claim about Mo being a failure at Chelsea. That was a bit petty.

09 Dec 2025 21:09:38
He was spot on for me. Gerrard did flirt with Chelsea and Trent left for Madrid. Coutinho had a phantom injury and Suarez bit someone but none of them came out in the press criticising their employers.

Salah was out of order. End of story.

09 Dec 2025 21:35:58
Him and Neville are two of the worst creatures to have ever walked the planet hence why they’re so pally now.

09 Dec 2025 22:07:13
Listening to anything the gobber has to say is like a chiropractor taking advice from Quasimodo. All about the fame and money nothing more.

09 Dec 2025 22:07:17
Carragher is a nob. Simple.

09 Dec 2025 22:17:24
They say that “people who can, do and that people who can’t, teach’. I think that these days you could add ‘and people who can’t teach, sit on social media’

Carragher is just doing a job. It’s neither here nor there if he’s actually any good or if he is right or wrong. His bosses seem happy with him talking without thinking and I guess there are enough people watching him to ensure his contract keeps getting renewed. Threads like this (and yes, I know I’m contributing) would seem to prove the point.

09 Dec 2025 22:58:02
If you watch those types of programmes, expect irrational and emotion-inducing takes.
It’s what they’re paid for.

I don’t watch them, I don’t listen to them on the radio. Life is too short.

09 Dec 2025 18:53:11
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new podcast entitled, Ed1 Allez Allez Allez 4 Podcast

09 Dec 2025 19:11:10
Ed1, sound that mate. Completely agree with you, it’s all gone a bit too far and people are quickly forgetting just how much he’s done for the club over the years. A real shame. He’ll always be a legend for me, no matter what. I’d love to think there’s a way back for him, but I doubt it now.

And as we all know, the media are absolutely poisonous, always looking to escalate situations and make them worse than they ever needed to be.

Totally agree on Carragher as well. He’s just a gobsh*te stirring things up for conversation like the rest of them. If it wasn’t plastered all over the media, I wouldn’t even know about it, because I tend to ignore anything he and the others come out with.

{Ed001's Note - yeah I only know about it from reading about it on here and then having to look it up to see what people were on about. I just don't take any notice of pundits myself.}

09 Dec 2025 19:52:58
Is that you Ed001 on that podcast, For me all these pundits have short memories, Carragher, Rooney, Wio etc . all done far worse than most ppl.

{Ed001's Note - yes mate.}

09 Dec 2025 21:38:11
ED001.thought you'd be suntanned out like Omar Sharif living out there.

{Ed001's Note - my nan's fantasy man was Omar Sharif. You don't really go out in the sunlight for most of the year here, it is too hot.}

10 Dec 2025 00:29:43
ED001.you know in the late 80s I was working on a big house in South Kensington, a Rolls Royce pulls up next door n one of the lads shouting its Omar Sharif . we all ran down n it was, he either lived there or his friend did (cant remember now ) but he gave us all a wave n drove off.

{Ed001's Note - good job me nan never found out or she might have made me grandad happy by leaving him and she would have hated to make me grandad happy!}

10 Dec 2025 14:52:52
Stromsgodset, Omar Sharif was a stud and a half, my G. Ain't mad at your nan's checking for him. Not in the least bit.


Ed01, is that you? You look awesome.

{Ed001's Note - hey no flirting Oli, Ed77 will get jealous, he is the only one posters are allowed to flirt with.}

09 Dec 2025 18:36:05
I think tonight will be a massive gauge as to whether Slot has the dressing room or not.

I just think we will see it in the performance, if he’s not got the players backing I can’t see him being here in January 2026.

How could it go so wrong, something must be happening behind the scenes, but what?

{Ed025's Note - thats ayone,s guess Johno..

09 Dec 2025 19:13:17
We'll be lucky if we get a draw tonight - that Inter team are looking very good this season. The leagues gone, I'd like to see us go all the way in the CL but we have Slot as our manager. Enough said.

09 Dec 2025 19:58:43
Salah, I think this season is finished for us already.

I am staggered by how much has gone wrong and how little Slot has done to remedy that!

09 Dec 2025 20:56:46
First half down, players look alright to me.

09 Dec 2025 21:43:31
@conslfc, not sure that the season is over just yet. I think the squad we have could grow together as the season goes on. At the very least I’m optimistic that the team might show us how well they are capable of playing.

If you put all the social media chatter, the overwhelming majority of which is people adding 2 + 2 and getting about 37, the club has two basic problems;

1. Getting the head coach to devise a system that best suits the squad we have.
2. What to do with Mo Salah.

On the first point it seems that the club are, at least publicly, making a show of backing Slot. On the second one, despite the clubs using their social media outlets to send out a message that they want Salah to stay, I suspect that they might be open to moving him on.

Of course, the chatter will persist until the club changes it’s stance or Slot devises a way of enabling the team to play well and win regularly.

As I said at the beginning, I’m a glass half full person and I think there are good things to come before the season ends.

09 Dec 2025 16:51:49
I can't believe Salah is getting so much stick, yes he hasn't been playing well but that can be said about the entire team. Ekitike and Szob plus Chiesa are the only ones worthy of praise and it seems Slot is doing his best to put the breaks on Ekitike's form, I still can't understand the logic behind Chiesa? He's been brilliant and can play on the left or right up top, I fell asleep the other day once more abd awoke to Chiesa clearing a ball off the goal line. The guy always puts a shift in and has to be an improvement on Gakpo.

What is going on at the club. Yes we rode our luck last season but also played some great attacking footy, we looked dangerous on the counter attack. Was the rot setting in then. Football is a funny old game and Slot seems to have coached the decency out of our entire squad and makes the most strange decisions. What puzzles me more is he refuses to actually change anything.

Come in Ed's what's going on in your opinions and what will resolve it, we could get any defenders in and Slot's dog system (doom and gloom) will get them playing awfully, not excusing Konate and the last game for the pen was insanity. I don't see things improving under Slot.

Can I back out of the sportsman's bet with Ed025! I take full responsibility for our awful form as I should never gamble.

A little wait for our next one, be lucky to finish in the top 4 Ynwa 🏆.

{Ed025's Note - no welching on the bet SM, or i will see you in court mate.. :)

09 Dec 2025 18:43:18
As suggested on here there might be more to the story than meets the eye, if not then a player who isn't playing well and gets dropped shouldn't really be publicly moaning to the media. If however we have been trying to move him on behind the scenes and he has got wind of it after signing a new deal you can understand the frustration.


I don't think we could currently put a starting 11 together of players playing well at the minute.

09 Dec 2025 19:07:40
Think there is far more going on behind the scenes than we can realize. Yes Mo shouldn't be going public with a sulk but he's also been a fantastic star for the club,

Have to agree with the 11 players comment.

Hope we show good intent tonight against inter.

09 Dec 2025 19:27:23
Yeah me too, it's about time we put in a performance win, lose or draw.
Undoubtedly he has been a star, if he would have said that he'll knuckle down and work his way back into the team then great, the fact he feels like a scapegoat suggests other things are going off.

If he does get a move away im sure we will get more details.

09 Dec 2025 19:44:46
People really are doing some mental gymnastics to justify what Salah did. When Ronaldo did something similar at Manchester United we were laughing our heads off at how petulant he was.

09 Dec 2025 20:44:42
For me it's not about justifying anything, far more going on than Salah throwing his toys out the pram. Forget united and Ronaldo and focus on problems far closer to home.