Liverpool banter 5

20 Oct 2025 06:36:32
For me . I want the whole coaching and staff to change

It's clear there's nothing going on behind the scenes that's making the team BETTER . With now even more quality
We look worse and worse

And in don't even recognise the way we play or what their trying to do .

Look how long United have stuck with Amorim . it's clear lfc will stick with slot and he is going to continue this deluded belief . we are unlucky and by the next two weeks
Liverpool will be out of the league race . and falling down the league table in Europe and trying to qualify to get to the second round


I don't think slot is the type to change ideas.

20 Oct 2025 07:56:35
Great idea redrebel. Sack them! Sack them all! It’s the only way!

And cancel Christmas.

20 Oct 2025 08:30:17
Xmas we can keep

I am just convinced if we don’t the season
Will collapse by December
Out of two major trophies

Sometimes in life u have to make the big calls.

20 Oct 2025 09:55:49
Big calls like sacking Nuno and signing Ange?
Big calls like having 10 managers in 10 years?

I tend to agree about the risk that Slot is stubborn and won’t change his ways. But that’s not a reason for pen pushers to make a change.

Jumping ship is for losers.

20 Oct 2025 11:07:11
Faith, you ain't never lied.

20 Oct 2025 00:41:04
Ed1, what do you think? Is it time to panic yet? That's four losses in a row, and it's not like we were playing good football either. I do think there are players who don't deserve to be in the starting lineup right now, but they keep getting selected.

{Ed001's Note - it is worrying that Slot seems to pick some players no matter how they perform, while others can't get a game when they are key every time they come on. He has to stop trying to get players fit by starting them and get them fit in training. And why drop a player in form for one who is not even close to half fitness? It is time that he addresses the issues or someone needs to have a serious talk with him.

Also, if you are going to pick players, at least play them to their strengths and stop playing like Trent is in the team, he is gone. We no longer have teams dropping 5 yards deeper and allowing us to control the play when we have the ball.

And what is this about with Macca just standing on their defensive line? We are just emptying midfield and wondering why every opponent can get at our backline easily. The midfield is offering no protection at all. Macca is too slow to get back, it is an imbecilic tactic to play him as almost a striker.}

20 Oct 2025 07:57:19
I had a distinct sense of dread when I saw the starting lineup an hour before the game with Macca and Isak starting, Ed, I mean if we all know that it isn't going to turn out well, it's flabbergasting that Slot can persist with doing this even when the likes of Ekitike, Chiesa and Jones all showing good form recently. Ekitike looked very good next to Mbappe for France in the break as well, so it is genuinely perplexing.

Emptying midfield is a massive problem for us in the build up, Grav now has loads of space to operate in with the opposition not looking to press him and the other team dropping into a low block, but Dom and Macca are all the way up the field with everybody else, you have to wonder what it is that we're trying to do with our ball progression.

{Ed001's Note - it is something the Rangers fans used to call 'the horseshoe' when GVB tried it in Scotland as their manager. They were frustrated by it then and said it never worked and just led to slow, boring, sideways football. It is a nonsense idea. Movement is the key to unsettling defences, even if only used to distract them for a second. When we did have movement, we created chances. But sending them all to stand up in a line up the top is just idiotic. Rodgers used to do something similar.}

20 Oct 2025 08:42:44
The biggest flaw with this system is all our ball playing players are pushed way to high and all easily marked by the opposition, if you look at recent games it’s our CBs who are expected to play penetrative passes which is just crazy. We no longer smoother our opponents we make it so easy by emptying our midfield, we can’t press once the opponent turns over possession because once the 1st pass makes it out our whole team are on the turn and chasing back. If you watch our last 10 games all our opponents have to do is play a long ball into the channels and we are carved open. Carragher pointed this out to Slot in interview way back before the season started and he had no answers and it seems he is yet to come up with a solution.

20 Oct 2025 09:38:35
You think the appointment of GvB hasn't work so far? Also, is Konate keep being selected because we don't have someone capable of replacing him right now? I wouldn't mind putting Gomez in and see how he perform.

20 Oct 2025 09:52:21
Play any combination of defenders you like, but if the midfield offers no protection we’ll still be a soft touch. As it is, any opponent will fancy their chances of us gifting them easy chances.

20 Oct 2025 09:59:05
Ed1 - the situation is really baffling and I wonder how in sync Slot is with Hughes.

Like we’ve signed two attacking wingbacks - Frimpong we’re not playing and we’d sooner play Szoboslai ahead of him so he can invert into midfield like Trent.

And the Kerkez were playing deeper and narrow so most of his runs are inside the LW.

It’s strange.

{Ed001's Note - it is very odd. Clearly not fully in sync as the recruitment has not matched the style of play from the beginning. In fact the recruitment is patchwork anyway, a keeper who is woefully unsuited, a full back who is not even a full back etc etc. The signings are great individual players but not a cohesive group of players who match up as a unit. It seems a bit uncoordinated.}

20 Oct 2025 11:12:55
Ed, I don't know if you saw it re: the Horseshoe. In the first half, Kerkez had the ball and Grav came over to show for a pass. Right behind him, there was the centre circle with a huge doughnut hole (or horseshoe) the size of you guessed it, the centre circle. I almost had to go wash my face to make sure I was seeing the same thing.

So it seems like the other midfielders just go stand on the oppo. 's defensive line when we are building and leave that doughnut hole in midfield. And yet we are surprised that we are awful when out of possession and in transition and get attacked and scored on with no pressure on the ball.

{Ed001's Note - my parents are staying and ended up going out on the balcony to watch the diwali fireworks rather than listen to my rants about that. 🤣🤣

19 Oct 2025 21:49:34
Ed01 I would really appreciate your words of wisdom right now. What’s going on?

{Ed001's Note - I don't think the choice of coach was correct, to be honest. Heitinga being replaced by GVB has brought a style of play that is not working. We brought in players for a completely different way of playing and then wondering why they are struggling to adapt. This is on Slot, he has to stop worrying about a potential burnout and just get the players back to a higher intensity.}

20 Oct 2025 10:47:02
Great response Ed.

{Ed001's Note - thanks mate.}

20 Oct 2025 07:39:01
{Ed's Note - LFC-S MANGO has posted a new article entitled, Is Liverpool FC In A Crisis?

20 Oct 2025 03:07:44
Wow some massive comments/ statements on here, look yesterday was utter crap, but if Gakpo had a bit more luck he would have scored a hat trick minimum. Salah looks poor at the moment and I have to say, I think we are watching the end of VVD amazing service at the club, he is not what he was. Couple that with the left back being new and still learning and the right back being young and possibly not prem level, we are not firing but the club will fix it.
Ekitike, Isak and Wirtz will all come good you will see.

{Ed078's Note - agree with the first half of your post and hope you're right about the second half.

20 Oct 2025 05:05:39
Hitting the post isn’t bad luck, the goals don’t move. Hitting the post is still not a shot on target. Gakpo is an average footballer.

20 Oct 2025 05:50:58
It’s actually harder to hit the goal post than the goal.

20 Oct 2025 06:15:16
We’ll get smacked up on Wednesday aswel. You’ll sit down an hour before kick off look at the team sheet and think, we’re in for a long night here.

Game will kick off, no passes will stick, ball skidding off players feet, Salah touch awful.

Defenders will spread nerves around the team, concede. All sat there waiting for 75 minutes when he makes changes and our game finally starts. Then we’ll lose anyway. It’s boring.

20 Oct 2025 06:36:19
He is very far from being an average footballer, he was our most dangerous player yesterday by some distance (which is not to say that he played well, that's just an objective fact) . That's what made it worse that he missed two absolute sitters and a handful of half chances, and it's hard to say whether the one on one or the header was the more egregious miss. He simply has to score at least one of those, given the game state.

What I don't really understand, though, is why it is always Gakpo holding the width and Kerkez underlapping. Whether Kerkez makes a run inside or outside doesn't seem to do anything anyway, everybody knows the ball isn't going to him, I'm wondering why we bought the best flying left back in the league when he is reduced to being such a non-factor in the opposing third.

20 Oct 2025 06:41:47
If United had a bit more luck they might have scored 4 . Yes Gakpo missed an absolute sitter and we did deserve something out of the game but let’s not try and sugar coat our midfield and defensive frailties.
Loosing 4 in a row is not a good look, first time in 11 years. Any PL could score against us I think, given how bad we are.

20 Oct 2025 07:05:40
Gakpo 2 shots that hit the post where unlucky, 2 excellent hits that beat the keeper all ends up and neither chance was in anyway easy.
His header at end was bad miss, should've hit target at the very least.
Not sure why gakpo being criticised he looked our best chance of a goal all day.

20 Oct 2025 07:06:03
Times like this is when you have to remind yourselves of 3nil down to Milan and 3nil down to Barcelona.

Whem have we ever done things easy. It WILL get better. Dropping 9 sports on the spin stings hard but that's the nature of the game and despite performances being pants all those losses were marginal and not trouncings. We will improve and hopefully soon and whem we do improve goals will flow.

We cannot turn into forest fans or united fans and be calling for the managers head. That is totally ridiculous.

Next couple weeks will hurt even if we win all games because I for one HATE losing to rat faced brigade.

BUT

YNWA.

20 Oct 2025 07:24:23
I don't think Virgil is over at all. His form is a symptom of the chaos around him. Kerkez looks lost next to him and doesn't communicate. Konate heads the ball to the opposition every time and only does his defensive job 1 game out of every 4. Bradley gets 0 cover from his winger. The midfield has absolutely no structure and teams run through us over and over and Ali our saviour isn't behind him. Id like to see him corale the team a bit more but you can't make a judgement on him based on this calamity.

20 Oct 2025 07:52:33
I hope you’re right but everyone is always quick to criticise Konate when he makes a mistake or plays badly. But VVD was much worse yesterday. Unfortunately Kerkez looks lost in a Liverpool shirt. None of this is helped by the our forwards can’t finish a bag of crisps at the moment. Not sure what Ekitike has done but the fact he was always the first one pulled off or can’t make our starting line up when he’s easily been our best attacking player this season is a joke.

20 Oct 2025 11:15:23
Gakpo is not the reason we have been playing awful as a team. Those issues lie elsewhere, Im afraid.

20 Oct 2025 02:08:04
Everyone on here is quick to call for the managers head after a few bad results. Easily forgetting what happened last year, when no one thought it possible we won the league. Give the manager time and support the him. Hitting the post and missing easy chances is not the managers fault. Utds first goal was a very bad mistake by the ref. After that its catch up. A few players need to get their act together ASAP. Salah, Gakpo, Kerkez, Bradley and Isak have all been well below par this season. One good game and it all clicks we will be a force again
We are only 4 points off top. Support the team YNWA

Thanks.

20 Oct 2025 03:02:52
No, it’s not just the last 4 games. Liverpool have been poor since PSG away.
Slot isn’t doing his job properly, and that is quite clear - we defend APPALLINGLY, have few attacking patterns of play, and can’t attack nor defend set-pieces. And those are just a few issues.
Slot has panicked and is reverting into picking his favourites at the expense of better, more in-form players in sheer hope rather than strategy. He’s also starting to sound increasingly silly in his press conferences, very reminiscent of the man that was there before Jurgen.

20 Oct 2025 06:16:26
I thought it was completely possible to win the League last season, especially how we preformed the previous season with the same player.