Liverpool banter 10

09 Apr 2026 07:43:07.
How is he still in a job after that? £450m spent to try and be more like PSG, only to end up with a worse side than last season, playing a worse 90 minutes against PSG than last season.

Opting to trial a back 5 in a quarter final?

The guy is clueless, the players are not playing for him any more.



We will finish trophyless and 11th with Slot at the helm. How he won the Premiership last season, I will never know because he is evidently clueless and lacking in the basic requirement for management: common sense.

His post-match interviews show a man totally out of his depth. He has to go. Now.

09 Apr 2026 07:53:50
The biggest Lie in football was Arne Slot's football is similar to Jurgan Klopps. 😂

09 Apr 2026 08:04:22
His sack is inevitable but they have left it wait too late.

Honestly, need to get back to pressing. Premier League top teams in general do as PSG are the level and we are hundred miles off them.

The best teams in Europe still press high.

Not sure what the Premier League top teams have thought that it's not the way to go. But they are wrong.

High workmanlike team press needed. The players get crucified for effort up top, but you can't press on your own. It must be a team effort and tactic.

{Ed025's Note - you pressed from the front Davey but what were the midfield doing mate?, they were not a unit at all and yes PSG are a very good team but they were afforded far too much space imo..

09 Apr 2026 08:18:40
In theory, I guess I can kind of understand what he was trying to do in terms of keeping the score down and then bringing it back to Anfield. It kind of worked at the beginning, but in the second half you can hardly say that it was worthwhile. PSG still generated a lot of chances, and the score was kept down thanks to bad finishing on their part. It's never the Liverpool way to be passive and let the other team have the ball for 90 minutes, though, so even if it's arguably (marginally) understandable from a logical perspective, it's totally unacceptable from a fan perspective.

Nobody really looked like they knew what they were doing a lot of the time. And how can you blame them when it's such a big shift in system.

We can only hope that Slot and the players have a master plan for the home leg, and keeping the score down to 1 or 2 was the intention in Paris. We were the team that came closest to matching PSG last year, and this year we look light years away from that.

09 Apr 2026 09:59:12
The only thing Arne Slot will be pressing is his trousers. We have bought duds: Frimpong, Hugo, Mama. They are not what we want at LFC.
We also have Gravenberch, Maca, Jones, Konate, VVD, Gomez, league winners and look like relegation haunted players. I know Reds will have a go over Hugo, but he is not what you need when you have a battle on your hands. He could not hold up his hands, never mind the ball last night. He has some lovely skills, but that is not what we want right now.

We want hard work right across the pitch. We are not getting it.
We were on the other side of a football lesson last night whereas it used to be us giving out the lessons. Slot and his coaches are Championship level, and they have got us playing at Championship level. FSG need to worry; they only have to look at Man Utd. They have been going backwards for years because they took their off the ball and I am afraid it could happen to us if we don't address the situation ASAP. YNWA

09 Apr 2026 10:33:06
It was one thing playing 5 at the back, but to have cbs following players all over the pitch was a disaster waiting to happen. Playing 5, with at least 1 cdm and pressing from higher up, might have worked. Slot seems to have tried to show how good he is, but has shown the opposite.

09 Apr 2026 08:43:02
Rarely do I say you are being too nice to us Ed025, but you really are.
To play a system you've never played before away from home brought some issues, perhaps can explain the disjointed nature. However, there was little to no press from the front 3 - Wirtz sort of tried Dom was anonymous and Ekitike was weak. Behind them was the same as before - grav and macca pulled around. The worst However was trying to track players man to man. its was a total mess, and embarrassing to our club.

Only Rafa could do that type of 1 off away performance, but klopp evolved us to having a new identity - Munich, Porto, Roma amongst other away wins seem a distant memory.
Players are definitely not without blame, some careers will inevitably end now but. Slot has to hold accountability. He is responsible for this rubbish show, and once he goes Henry should ensure Edwards and Hughes follow.
We are like the UK, being deliberately mismanaged to decline.

{Ed025's Note - i cant argue wit that Ben..

09 Apr 2026 09:00:56
Ed025 am not sure how good PSG actually are I just think with everyone else being so bad it makes them look better than they are.
A lot like us last season and Arsenal this season apart from I feel the league is even worse this season teams like Bournemouth Palace Brighton seem a lot worse than last year.

{Ed025's Note - they are a good side Grino, their movement is superb for me mate..

09 Apr 2026 09:32:21
Ed025's, are you new to this party or something? Surely, you jest. We don't press as a team. Sometimes, we don't even press at all. For me, that game was pure sabotage for Slot and I'll tell ya why. First, he plays a back 5, something he has never done at LFC. He then plays Szobo in the false 9 (rather than in a CM in place of a woeful Macca with no legs), he plays Ekitike (don't even get me started on him) on the left with Wirtz on the right.

Slot did all of this while leaving actual wide players (whatever it is we may think of them) like Salah, Gakpo, Chiesa and Rio on the bench.

All of the above is why (and this is just me, btw), I say Slot sabotaged the game, completely. He played a system and put in a line up to make sure the whole team drowned. Why? I think he felt embarrassed by what happened to him at the Etihad and how the players gave up (VVD's own words) and made him look like a clueless dolt.

That to me last night, was Slot getting revenge on the players for showing him up vs City. Again, my opinion.

{Ed025's Note - i thought the forwards pressed well Oli but the midfield was so pedestrian and did not press at all, it was all too slow for me mate and having seen PSG, Bayern and Madrid over the last couple of days it just shows you how poor the Premiership really is, on a side note England are still joint favourites for the world cup...will you be having a bet on them Oli?.. :)

09 Apr 2026 09:41:57
Completely agree Ed. That was the point I was trying to make. Pressing in 1s and 2s is ridiculous and it's all we ve been doing all season.

It's like the defence has one strategy, the midfield is playing another, and the forwards another.

It is such a mess on the coaching side it's unbelievable.

Yes, we a short some needed ingredients in the squad.
Yes, the players need to take personal responsibility for the performance.

But the plan is horrendous and the fitness levels are a joke.

We need a change so bad. We are in a champions league spot and we need the change to keep that spot.

Get a coherent plan across the full team and get a rocket into them. There is still so much to play for.

Can't take the importance of that champions league spot for granted. So important that we get that. And I don't think Slot can deliver it.

{Ed025's Note - i have given up on the CL for Liverpool Davey but still think you have a decent chance of top 5 mate but more because of how poor the league is now rather than on merit..

09 Apr 2026 13:34:54
Ed25, you must be trying to take the mick out of me on purpose with the England bit, lol. England ain't going nowhere fast in the WC, IMO but again, you never know.

@Davey, we have always played this way this season under Slot with a press here, a press there, but a full press? Nowhere, man. The plan, fitness etc? What plan, fitness, etc.? because I ain't seen it.

What I can't understand is why many of our fans suddenly have seen the light after City and PSG whereas these insipid perfs. have been on show all season long.

Surely, the City/PSG results cannot be what did it?

{Ed025's Note - i just know you are big England fan Oli, it is telling that you have a union jack flying in your back garden mate.. :)

09 Apr 2026 05:31:39
Slot could become a novelist after this. With blockbusters like How to destroy a football club or How to waste nearly half a billion pounds. He's had life experience. It certainly wouldn't be fiction.

09 Apr 2026 06:25:31
Slot has destroyed the team and Edwards, Hughes and Slot have destroyed the club.

- a back five at PSG is a disgrace.
- play Rio Ekitike Salah with Jones Szboz Macca ... Rio would have had Hakimi on toast, push them back .. PSG ain't great defensively .. b proactive.



- Slot made LFC believe they are inferior.
Made them submissive, mentally weak and defeatist.

- Forget the loss, it's the manner of it all which is pathetic - what player would want to return after the summer when you have this manager at the helm ... every element is awful.

09 Apr 2026 07:01:16
Edwards, Hughes, Slot are pure evil to the Liverpool spirit.

09 Apr 2026 07:37:45
That squad last night consisted of 10 players who have finished the season poorly in the last 3 seasons, including Klopp's last season.
I don't want Slot to stay, but Gomez, Konate, Robbo, Virgil, Jones, Macallister, Gravenberch, Szob, Gakpo and Salah capitulated under pressure every time. Them winning the league last yr makes no difference to my opinion. They are not good defensively when the pressure comes. Klopp's last season going for 4 trophies.

10 prem games to play. Atlanta 0 3 at home out of euros. Piss poor Utd team came from behind in extra time to beat us in the cup, failed to win any of our remaining 5 away games, including an out battled 2 0 Derby defeat by Everton.
Salah and Gakpo have failed to deliver this season compared to last season, but lets not put this down just to Slot. This team of players find it hard to defend when the pressure comes.

09 Apr 2026 07:47:09
Season ended in November.

09 Apr 2026 08:00:36
Get ready for the players to say they can't explain how it's going wrong, and whatever excuse Slot comes up with?

09 Apr 2026 07:59:08
Ed's some of the comments here are way over the top. Evil is what is being doing in a Lebanon currently.

{Ed025's Note - i agree with you Tom..

09 Apr 2026 08:13:33
Does anyone know what time the players intervention meeting is today please.

09 Apr 2026 08:22:34
They had to re-schedule the last one, JK, as MacAllister kept falling over during it and Konate's positional sense meant he went to the wrong room.

09 Apr 2026 09:09:52
I think Slot's time is up but at least he tried something different last night by going to a back 5, it didn't work but at least he tried something different. I thought Marma had a decent game and Gomez, Kerkez is looking promising, but I couldn't believe he went down with cramp after 60 odd mins, which typifies how the team is unfit.

You could see Ekitike also start walking at 65 mins. PSG looked light years ahead and reminded me of us 5 years or so ago, pressing monsters and recovering the ball back very quickly. Ahh well, onto Fulham.

09 Apr 2026 09:35:02
Postklopp, I thought Slot hung all those players out to dry with that back 5 formation. Also, notice that we were spamming free kicks from 60/70 yards from their goal into their bow, something we would have laughed at other teams who spent as much as we did, for doing.

09 Apr 2026 09:35:26
Hp calling Slot evil is very harsh, to say the least.

09 Apr 2026 10:03:24
Worzal69, you think Slot's time is up!!! Really, mate, where have you been all season, mate?
A bit late to the party there, mate lol.

09 Apr 2026 10:29:38
@Albeydered, Been saying it. It took City and PSG to get here? Man's been saying this since Sunderland in Nov.

Well, as LeBron said after he won his first NBA ring, "It's about damn time".

09 Apr 2026 00:14:50
One positive from tonight.

Last time we played back 5 we lost 3-0 to Palace.

We are improving!

09 Apr 2026 05:32:54
Got me thinking, we were 3 - 0 down to Barca after the first leg. We had Bobby and Mo missing, and nobody gave us a chance. But we'd seen what we could do on European Cup / Champions League matches on a Wednesday night at Anfield, so we had a chance.

2 - 0 down to PSG - midweek match at Anfield.....



For the first one, we had Jurgen, heavy metal football and belief. Next week, we have Arne and a bunch of players who would struggle against the top 6 teams in the Championship at the moment.

We might be in the top 6 in the PL and the last 8 of the CL, but we've fallen a long, long way.

09 Apr 2026 07:03:12
Wdw, then we have mentality monster manager in Klopp. This team is mentality strawberry, crumble easily.

09 Apr 2026 07:45:31
Mentality midges, squashed easily.

09 Apr 2026 09:12:39
We were unlucky to lose that Barca game 3-0 in the first leg. A draw would have been a fair result. We went into the 2nd leg at least thinking we had a chance, even without Mo & Bobby.

Yesterday, we were lucky it was only 2-0. We couldn't have complained if it ended 5 or 6.

09 Apr 2026 09:35:46
That back 5 and the positions some of the players held were a disgrace.

09 Apr 2026 10:09:06
Lamborini, mate, I think you are being kind with 5 or 6. I would have said 8 or 9, mate. It was men versus boys. They will score at Anfield. They are the best team in Europe, with Bayern 2nd, Arsenal 3rd.

09 Apr 2026 00:11:01
Hello fellow reds.

Just my opinion on the game tonight. It was demoralising as it looked like we wernt even trying to score. I know PSG are a great team but it's not like we have champiinship players!
It's also a joke how they had their previus game postponed and have no weekend game either, giving them a week off for both legs, as if they needed any more advantages over us, especially with their squad.

Also, just my opinion.

I know it looks likley to be Alonso as I dont see slot staying beyond the summer but the way Alonso plays football in not too disimilar to slots. I know this will cause division for people, but I would like the club to go for Diego Pablo Simeone as next manager, he will definetly light some fires and get the players going again, like Klopp in some ways, hes great at getting players to play beyond their limitations.

Thoughts fellow reds?

09 Apr 2026 00:54:44
Atletico Madrid's manager? No way, man, his football style is simply disgusting.

09 Apr 2026 04:47:34
Pubehead can do one with this anti football

09 Apr 2026 05:49:21
You can probably count on one hand the number of Liverpool fans who would agree with you on that appointment, there's no way in hell the club would even view him as an option, and he doesn't even speak English.

09 Apr 2026 06:35:54
Gujar. I am one of those Chewy mentioned, and I said as much before X-Mas.
I think he gets a lot of stick from fans that don't watch his football a lot, and base their opinions on how they have played against us, where he has set up more defensively. I don't think that's fair. He has taken an also ran team from Spain and had them consistently challenging at the highest levels of national and European football for a long time now. His teams can defend well, can play attacking football, but I think more than anything have grit, fight, determination and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win in absolute spades.

That's where I think the merit comes from for him, given we currently seem to have about as much spine as a cheese string.
I wouldn't be against it at all, but I do also think we should give the likes of Alonso priority.
A lot of talk right now about how even Gerrard would be an improvement. Not quite sure how people could say that in one breath but then say a proven winner wouldn't be suitable. Simeone for me has just as much credibility as an option than any other candidate, not that it will happen anyway, as Chewy says, I don't think he speaks the language and is in his element at Atletico.

09 Apr 2026 08:18:11
PSG played last Friday in the cup and beat Toulouse 3-1, so had 1 more day's rest.

You're correct, they don't have a game this weekend either, but to even things out, none of our players have actually technically tried to play a game of football in months.

09 Apr 2026 09:37:10
SlotSlitS***Shot, that wasn't anti-football. That was sabotage from the manager, imo.

09 Apr 2026 10:12:06
Gujar, are you Simeone's agent? I would not want him near Tranmere Rovers, never mind LFC.

09 Apr 2026 12:09:21
Oli, I was talking about Da Ego Simian, not Slot. I wouldn't call a Liverpool manager or coach names like Pubehead.

09 Apr 2026 12:50:00
For the last time, "style of play" is not the reason Slot should be sacked, nor should it be the determining factor in whether Xabi Alonso is our next manager.
Slot needs to go because he is wholly unsuited to being the Liverpool manager for a dozen reasons more important than style of play.

Our aimlessness directly stems from these reasons.
Simeone's aggressive, hardworking qualities would be a far better character fit than Slot, but there are other reasons he would end up failing, albeit far less disastrously than our current imposter of a manager.

09 Apr 2026 00:07:33
When Fergie left Manutd it's taken 13 years and counting of Transition and they still aren't anywhere near the heights of SAF. I hope to God we sort this mess out and learn from the mess Manutd made post Fergie. Klopp is loved by fans and players alike. He is a genius and is very hard to replace. Slot is not the answer.

09 Apr 2026 01:24:28
Fergie left bad team. Slot inherited good team. Can't compare both.

09 Apr 2026 06:34:49
We also won the title the season after he left, so that has to be the most dumb comparison?!

We've had 1 great year and 1 s*** year, let's not spiral ey?

Like the other poster said, Utd's squad was shot to pieces. We have the making of an exciting one that needs the right leader and few extra good signings.

09 Apr 2026 09:37:53
@Stg, please, compare what is actually comparable.

08 Apr 2026 23:52:13
Said we should have fired Slot a few days before the City game. More than half of the people on here basically said "what's the point now? Just wait till the season ends".

Well, considering we were still in the FA Cup, UCL and fighting for top 4. Now look at the ucking state of us. Smashed by City, PSG embarrassed us and I have no confidence against Fulham. Not getting top 4 will be a disaster.

People on here should have a word with themselves.

09 Apr 2026 05:59:10
Have a word with ya self, making up stories.
Like it or not, that was a great result and a good performance last night.
I still want Slot gone, I still question Virgil's captaincy. But I'm not fuming at the players like I was on Saturday. There was some fight and care in there.

And, top 4 doesn't matter, 5th is what we need.

09 Apr 2026 06:24:12
We will not get 5th place. Edwards and Hughes have blown it and will be shown the door in the summer along with Slot. They had plenty of time to react, but obviously did not think anyone else could do a better short term job. I disagree, but this mess we are in is because people who are paid vast amounts of money to take decisions didn't.

They chose the easy route. In my opinion, that is not leadership and not what the club needed. Slot should have been removed months ago, it was the right call. All that has happened is 3 people have had their reputations damaged unnecessarily out of either stubbornness or incompetence. That for me is such a shame, it didn't need to be like this.

09 Apr 2026 06:46:41
"Like it or not, that was a great result and a good performance last night."

That could well be one of the most depressing posts I've ever read on here.

If you honestly believe that, then our standards couldn't really fall much lower.

09 Apr 2026 07:13:02
It's okay mate I got told to lighten up after the City game because I said Slot is clueless. He is either very stupid or purposely sabotaging this club.

09 Apr 2026 07:27:53
Wassa, that PSG side is a phenom - starting to look as effective as Pep's best teams, Zidane's Real and our best Klopp side. Holding that to 2-0 ain't a bad effort. I've not had much good to say about our performances this season but that was solid.

{Ed025's Note - how was that solid?, you were very lucky not to 5 or 6 down and had 30% of the ball and not a shot on target mate..

09 Apr 2026 07:33:13
"Like it or not, that was a great result"?

Eds; any chance of getting a thumbs down button added to this site?

{Ed025's Note - some posts you just have to ignore and skip past so as not to give it any credence Red7, ...this is one of them mate..

09 Apr 2026 07:48:31
kjh2477 you're talking utter BS

09 Apr 2026 07:55:36
"Like it or not, that was a great result and a good performance last night."

Absolutely delusional. There was nothing great about the performance. No shots on target and less than 30% possession. They carved us open at will, and we looked devoid of any answers.

If you think next Tuesday is going to be any different, you're sorely mistaken. Slot has no answers to this, the team is disorganised and unfit. Last night was every bit as awful as Bodgers' attempt at damage limitation against Madrid.

09 Apr 2026 08:23:47
I must have watched a different game last night.

In fairness to kjh, the game he watched, Rushie, Barnes and King Kenny were our stand out performers.

09 Apr 2026 10:15:54
My glasses are tinted as red as it gets and even I can't say that was a good performance. In fact, I can't find any positives in going to Paris and rolling over to have our tummies tickled.

09 Apr 2026 09:41:02
@kjh2477, what that football are you on about? A great performance? You saw fight? Really, you saw that? With what eyes? Slot's?

Mate, you must be on Slot's payroll because that was the most insane take of the game I have heard. Jeez Louise, just stop.

08 Apr 2026 23:29:04.
Well that was a massive disappointment, the players are all over the shop! I have to say that the tactics were terrible.
We set up to press in a group when on the wings but had no one in the middle to break play up! I rate Grav but he is not a holder and should be playing with a defensive mid. Macca has dropped a huge level since last season and I believe our midfield is a huge problem!
Wirtz and Gomes are the only 2 players that can hold their head up a little, no support for Wirtz up top and you can see he is a world class player.


Last rant has to be Frimpong, he was awful and should be no where near this team! We need a RB and a holder next year if we want to improve.

09 Apr 2026 09:43:52
@Kiwi, why is it a massive disappointment? Once the back 5 (something Slot has never played), along with the players he put out (Wirtz on the right, Ekitike on the left and Szobo in the false 9), should have told you what was coming. Cos that is what all the above nonsense showed me from the off.



We played the way we always play as in, no press, no intensity, no bite, no thrust. I can keep going, hence why I don't get why this is disappointing. We've been seeing this rubbish all season, have we not?

08 Apr 2026 23:16:57
Arne sent that team not to get hammered, and on another day PSG could have scored 5. I remember Brenda doing something similar vs Real Madrid not long before he got the axe.
From losing on pens to them a year ago to surrendering this time around says it all about how far backwards Slot has taken us. 400 million pounds later.

I think this has to be the time to get some sort of bounce for the 2nd leg to perhaps save our season.


Give it to Stevie for the remaining games and bring in Xabi in the summer.
If Stevie can't turn it around with results then at least he could bring some energy and passion so we can enjoy the last games of the season.
It's massively clear that Slot has run out of ideas, has lost the dressing room and 90% of fans want him out.
Someone sack him please.

09 Apr 2026 00:09:35
What's the point now? Season is over. Should have been weeks back, and we could have ridden some of that momentum.

09 Apr 2026 00:15:35
There's still a chance to qualify for the Champions League if Slot is sacked.

09 Apr 2026 02:17:52
5-7 points if he stays. Won't be enough. Not sure what manager we could bring in, but I'd settle for Ron at this point.

09 Apr 2026 04:50:38
Ron Atkinson? Controversial.

09 Apr 2026 05:40:22
Lol. I had to look up if he's still singing along to Simple Minds.

09 Apr 2026 09:46:04
"Arne sent that team not to get hammered, and on another day PSG could have scored 5. I remember Brenda doing something similar vs Real Madrid not long before he got the axe."


This is exactly what I posted in a thread today.

For me, Slot sabotaged that game and put that team out to get slaughtered cos imo, he wanted them punished for showing him up to be a clueless knob for the world to see at the Etihad.

09 Apr 2026 10:10:28
I agree with all of that Redman apart the £400m bit. I do wish people would stop saying Slot spent £400m+ and made us worse.

That completely ignores the £300m+ of talent we lost in the summer which has to be taken into account if you're using money spent as a stick to beat him with.

You can spend £1bn on players but if you lose £900m it's not going to make you much better and will probably make you worse.

Bottom line, we lost some very good players in the summer but replaced them with some very good players. It was inevitable there would be a period of adjustment especially given the tragedy the team went through just before preseason started.

This now though is way beyond a period of adjustment. This is bordering on a capitulation. This squad is good enough to compete against the best in Europe but instead we go to PSG with no intention to compete and just try to keep the score down.

That is completely unacceptable in my eyes and not what Liverpool Football Club is, has been or will ever be about.

Slot has lost the fans and probably the players too so he has to go.

08 Apr 2026 23:06:28
No matter how good the opposition is.

UCL quarter final and that's the way we set up. Not remotely good enough, rubbish.

Cheers for the league title Arne but see you later.