Liverpool banter 8

06 Dec 2025 20:25:54
If you can't defend, you will concede goals. We can't defend.
From Konate lying down in the penalty area, to Jones allowing a player to cut inside and shoot in the penalty area, to Gravenberch's half hearted attempt on their corner.
We just don't have players that are defensively minded enough. If we had a team full of technicians it wouldn't be so bad but we don't so we need to compete.


We need some new players and a change of identity. Sacking Slot now leaves a new manager with the same problem but I can't see a load of new signings in January especially when we spent so much in the summer.
They were nearly all attacking players though 🤷.

06 Dec 2025 20:32:16
Slot is the problem.

06 Dec 2025 19:34:55
Remember the time everyone was lording Slot for hooking Quansah off at half time in his first game.

What about Konate stinking it up after 15 games?!?!

He has either lost his own backbone or someone has filleted him.

06 Dec 2025 20:36:23
For me he needs replacing but he isn't helped by poor leadership from his captain. Although his persistence to stick with favourites doesn't help.

06 Dec 2025 20:38:18
Whatsup, Slot didn't give away the penalty.

{Ed001's Note - but he did pick the man who constantly makes those kind of imbecilic decisions.}

06 Dec 2025 19:41:44
Konate has been rubbish for nearly two dozen games.

06 Dec 2025 21:06:20
Well for starters Gomez has to be fit to replace him which he hasn't been for half the season. And secondly even when fit Gomez is even worse than Konate. The real pity is Leoni got injured.

{Ed001's Note - Gomez is not worse than Konate, stop talking crap in your deluded attempts to defend the shambolic mess Slot is making of the season.}

06 Dec 2025 21:06:23
It's all on Slot and the coaches. The tactics, formations and instructions are what the players are working to.
The lack of intensity, players out of position, players keeping their place every game no matter how crap they are.
We have 2 of the top scorers last season on the bench and he can't find a way to get them in the team or play a way to get any creativity out of all the attacking players at his disposal.
We have no pressing and our midfield is bypassed with either one pass or a quick one two.
The defence is fragile and looks like conceding multiple times a game.


At least with some intensity and desire, a lot of these issues go away. The passing is faster, movement quicker, defensive interceptions are faster.
I don't know if he is just missing his family and wants to go home or if last season has given him such a big head that he thinks whatever he does will work.
I don't like us losing, but at least go out with a fight and a bit of passion where you can see the players have given their all.
I am numb to the performances and results which is a bad sign. Shows that there doesn't appear to be any sign of a way out of this mess with this manager.

06 Dec 2025 20:20:52
Ed1 what do you think it’s going to take for the grown ups to realise the man they’re paying millions too isn’t going to improve and need sacked? This is beyond gross misconduct now surely lol.

{Ed001's Note - probably when the stats tell them so.}

06 Dec 2025 20:25:47
Hopefully that’s now then! I liked Arne still do for his honesty but he just looks like he doesn’t care and has lost not only himself but the team, he just seems to be totally unmotivated after last year, no hunger for repeat success.

06 Dec 2025 20:31:41
Only stat that matters is 4 wins in 15, I really wish it hadn't come to this but I see no other option then a change in management.

06 Dec 2025 20:40:08
Liverpool EMBARASSING Football Club.

Sunderland promoted from EFL last season and we gained one point at Anfield!

Leeds last seasons EFL winners versus last seasons premier league winners, one point gained!

Two Draws? Two points from Six possible, who is the Charlatan?

Any Sloth or Lenny Henry?

06 Dec 2025 20:54:01
Stats ed?!

How bad they got to get?!

Is this season a reset or a running period, because calender year have been awful .

February this started . February!

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

06 Dec 2025 21:54:09
Guys, I live a long way from home and haven’t been to a live game in 10 years, but watch almost all LFC matches on TV and get the frustration with how things have been for a while now.
I know a number of fans of all of our major competitors really well and nobody is happy with how their team is performing this season (bar the really nervous gooner) .

All have a couple of players that they pick on for persistent poor performances, just as we do, and all (bar the blue Manc) really want a change of manager.
Why are all these teams’ supporters feeling the same way at the same time, I wonder? Could there be something else at play?

06 Dec 2025 20:14:41
This reminds me of the old days when Liverpool were always chasing Utd, waiting for a slip up only for us not to take advantage. Eventually you run out of games to catch up.
We are in dire straits right now, so fragile that any team now fancies their chances to score. Too many individual errors, players not winning their own battles. We are a shadow of the team from last season and if we are to get anything out of this season, be it CL or top 4 then the club needs to pull the trigger on Slot and get someone in to try and salvage what’s left but make no mistake, it won’t be a walk in the park to pick this team up.

Too many underperforming players and not even in the squad to cover. Hopefully we get some help in the January window.

06 Dec 2025 20:11:19
If slot stays, we can kiss champions league football next season goodbye, top 4 in epl goodbye and basically winning any trophies goodbye. We need to say goodbye to slot.

06 Dec 2025 20:09:37
There's a lot to be learned from this season going forward. It's tough atm but Gone will be the days of first team players allowed to run down their contracts for Madrid.
Squad players who simply aren't good enough won't be in and out of the team for years. Centre backs costing us points nearly every week for months, that will never happen again.
There's a lot of errors happening on and off the pitch where I truly can't see it ever replicated again.

It isn't acceptable to invest soo much to have this kind of season. We bought top players and I expect lessons to be learned from the complete mess we're witnessing on the pitch. It's not all on slot BTW.
Hughes did inherit contractual problems. However this squad was in need of more recruitment than they probably expected.
This team is certainly not where it should be. Guehi and seymenyo will go straight into that 11.

06 Dec 2025 20:34:51
Over 200m on Wirtz and Isak wasn't needed imo. Should of got 4 players for that. 2cbs and 2midfielders.

{Ed001's Note - but we needed 2 strikers. And we did try and sign both Bournemouth centre-backs and Guehi as well. The money wasn't the issue, Slot didn't see midfield as the priority this summer. He just wanted a Wirtz type to unlock packed defences.}

06 Dec 2025 20:07:36
Do you think Konate is being played to keep him sweet, in the hope he signs a new contract? Because it'll cost a place at the top table, and Slot his job .
Bench him and let him go . We have to have better, somewhere, even in the u16s, for a month!

06 Dec 2025 20:21:03
The boy doesn’t deserve a contract, let him sod off to PSG for me. Hopefully they bid in Jan.

06 Dec 2025 20:34:52
A lot of posters on here were upset when we were looking at buying a Konate replacement in the summer.

{Ed001's Note - very true, I got a lot of abuse for saying he could be upgraded upon easily and was told in no uncertain terms that he was top class.....}

06 Dec 2025 20:45:11
I definitely think any existing contract offer should not only be withdrawn, but also burnt just in case. Has been nothing but a liability all season.

06 Dec 2025 21:21:47
Ed1 you were right about Konate and I for one am eating humble pie. The man is a mess and becoming worse each game, maybe Madrid not going for him has made him want to play worse so more suitors stop chasing his signature….

06 Dec 2025 16:56:19
Hi Ed1 I hope your well?
Do you think Salah will leave in Jan with maybe semenyo his replacement?
What’s your thoughts on semenyo as a player!
Let’s hope for 3 points today.

{Ed001's Note - no. Semenyo is very good and would complement Isak/Ekitike well.}

06 Dec 2025 17:09:26
Thanks Ed have a great wknd.

{Ed001's Note - just need a win for that!}

06 Dec 2025 17:22:57
I’m hoping for a good win (my boss is a Leeds fan and he’ll be even more annoying if they beat us! )

06 Dec 2025 19:32:58
Slot out now we are shocking cannot defend at all surely he has too go now not sure why FSG are wasting time he won’t turn it around.

06 Dec 2025 19:39:54
Fat chance lad, with slot at the helm there is no chance, I’m sick of watching this football, he has made them all confused and playing like scared cats, and don’t get me started on konate, I’d rather play Nallo instead.

06 Dec 2025 19:00:21
Any poster that wants Slot to stay is just trolling. That was plain awful game management. I don’t blame the players for just despairing.

06 Dec 2025 20:28:01
Semeno would want his head examined for coming to lfc.

06 Dec 2025 20:37:11
Well I can assure you that Semeno will not be playing for Liverpool either in January or next August.

06 Dec 2025 20:42:53
Awful game management?
He brought on Gomez and Endo. There is a lack of defensive options in the squad. We don't have enough to start let alone bring on to see a game out.
Twice.

06 Dec 2025 16:23:05
I think the biggest takeaway from Villa winning at Arsenal is that we are beginning to see some daylight between us and what is currently the top 3. Lose today and it's 8 points. So we really are getting to a situation where top 4 is no longer the goal but 4th or 5th spot is.

7 points from our last 9 matches w little to no sign of improvement is relegation form not top 4 form. I don't see us getting anything at Leeds today. I can't listen to any more excuses the latest being deflected goals etc when we also scored w a deflected goal.

Super negative post but it's time for a change. I think we lose today by at least 2 goals and get run over by a team who wants it more than we do. Sticking my neck out here for major criticism and this post might age really poorly, but win or lose we are not on the right track w this manager.

06 Dec 2025 17:09:26
What we have seen today is Everton put away a poor Forest team, and City demolish Sunderland. That puts our two recent performances against them into context.

Tonight will be a measure of whether the slight improvements we've seen lately are being sustained or not. A loss would be a big psychological setback back, but a win and we’re into fifth with two home matches coming up.

06 Dec 2025 17:26:35
Even City lost their next two games after beating us and look vulnerable to anyone willing to have a go. We should be seeing big improvements not subtle ones. Enjoy the match.

06 Dec 2025 19:48:47
We gained another point on the top 4. 🙄.

06 Dec 2025 14:52:12
Well done Villa, have we an interest in Unai Emery Ed as a replacement for Slot if he's pumped.

06 Dec 2025 15:43:56
I hope not, Mcgov.

06 Dec 2025 15:59:54
Emery suits villa. There's clearly noone that's a great match that's available otherwise I do think slot would be gone. Unless it's loss after loss after loss slot will be manager until the end of the season.
Again I'd like to see us go for naggelsman. Enrique I don't believe is attainable next summer so naggelsman for me after the world cup.

Alonso I see nothing special about atall. His personality is as flat as his football.
Glasner is I'm hoping click bait. There's no others worth mentioning.
If fans want great football again, naggelsman is our man. We'll have the players too to sustain real challenges on all fronts.

06 Dec 2025 16:03:36
Maybe we could go for Moyes.

06 Dec 2025 17:01:43
Funny you say you see nothing special about Alonso because I see nothing special about Nagglesman, Bruce.

06 Dec 2025 17:19:39
I don't see anything special about either of them TBH.

06 Dec 2025 18:22:04
Pochettino.

06 Dec 2025 19:35:11
NOchettino.

06 Dec 2025 19:44:18
Fields
His football is exciting and suits us. He's an interesting character aswell. Nagelsmann is a top choice for me. Enrique would be my no 1 but I think there's no chance atall when a man's happy in Paris with his family.

06 Dec 2025 20:20:56
Sounds like the German version of Brodgers that mate.

06 Dec 2025 20:20:56
Hmmm, we need a manager, what about the guy that just won the champions league? I bet you guys put someone into your fantasy football the week after he scores a hattrick.

06 Dec 2025 14:44:44
Would you take Unai Emery as manager ed1?

{Ed001's Note - no.}

06 Dec 2025 16:00:31
He suits villa. Naggelsman after the world cup suits us.

06 Dec 2025 16:07:05
please no.

06 Dec 2025 16:24:52
I concur Ed.

He is a good manager don't get me wrong but I think he is at his level of club. Failed at both "big" clubs he was at previously, plus his footy is boring.

06 Dec 2025 16:25:15
I would take him over Slot no question. Don't know much about him or his playing style etc but they are winning and the form team in the league the last 2 months. Ironically we are the only team to beat them in that run and I'm amazed that Slot hasn't let us all know that in his weekly drivel fest.

06 Dec 2025 17:03:22
You think Villas football is boring?

06 Dec 2025 17:21:37
The fields
What two big clubs did he fail at?

06 Dec 2025 17:53:28
Boring may of been an exaggeration Irish, its not Palace or Citeh but more Arsenal or Chelski. He failed at Arsenal and he failed at PSG imo mate.

06 Dec 2025 18:27:26
Wasn’t it Arsenal and PSG.

06 Dec 2025 18:36:47
PSG and Arsenal.

06 Dec 2025 20:02:09
I don’t think he failed at PSG, he just didn’t win the CL but then only one coach has at that club. He won the 4 domestic trophies in his second season before he left.

06 Dec 2025 14:27:26
Would like to see Dom and gravenberch as the two in midfield and Wirtz as the attacking mid. Salah back on the right. Ekitike to start aswell.

06 Dec 2025 15:10:56
Whatever formation of players you want to see in a position it won’t happen
You know that.

06 Dec 2025 16:29:03
Team has been announced. Mo on the bench with Gomez, Robbo and Isak.

06 Dec 2025 16:30:00
I don't think it matter who plays where. I'm sorry but I don't have any fatih in this manager to get us on the edge of our seats and actually play to our considerable strengths and put fear into our opponents. We used to be everyone's weekly cup final now teams are coming to Anfield and expecting at least a point.

06 Dec 2025 10:52:16
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Matchday 14 - Quick Round Up

06 Dec 2025 12:19:01
Nice one Ed1, cheers mate.

{Ed001's Note - very welcome Salah.}