Liverpool Discussion posts 2

05 Jun 2026 01:13:52
Watched Netherland - Algerie last night. I saw a Dutch team playing more or less identical as last season's Liverpool. The same dross with endless sessions of Dutch defenders playing slowball on their own half. It's the Dutch way of football. 2 managers under United and Slot have proofed the pudding, at least in the Premier League. Algerie won that game.

I'm over the moon that the club saw the madness and chose Mr. Andoni Iraola. The club is turning back to the culture style that Jurgen left us. There is not written in the stars that Iraola will manage great success from the start. He might almost certainly need time. It's gonna be a revolution for a lot of the players, and the World Cup won't make it easier for him to prepare for the coming season.



However, I'm almost convinced that we will see a team trying to play exiting footy. And results will evolve to the better with some time.

Been picking up on Iraola stuff on the internet, and I really like this guy. A very active and forceful Trainer, and that kind of guy hit me more than a sleek camera-talker. He wantet himself a two year contract, that for me shows result ambitions, an puts pressure on his own performance. He is aware of the importance of learning the city and bonding with the fans.

Now, let us embrace him and his ideas. He's gonna give it all he's got. He said it himself. He wanted a big club, it's time for him to win something!

05 Jun 2026 07:58:00
Agree with everything you have said, Tuktuk. I think he will get the best out of the players we have, including those in the development squads, and, with a few additions, we can look forward to progressive football and better performances and results.

In time, trophies will follow.

05 Jun 2026 08:22:03
I think you're right, Tuktuk, but if you watched the CL final, you'd have seen arguably the best footballing team in Europe play exactly the same way we did last season too.

That's because they played against a well drilled defensive team who got 11 men behind the ball and closed all the spaces. That's how the Premier League is now. It's hard to play good, attacking football when the opposition won't let you and just falls over under minimal contact every time they get the ball and choreograph set pieces with tactical fouls to gain an advantage.



I think the referees have a huge responsibility this season, and, moving forward, to stamp it out. They have to stop the tactical blocking, grabbing and fouling and not give fouls every time someone falls over under contact. They need to not allow teams to slow the game down and take an age over every restart.

Until that happens, this is the football we will see.

05 Jun 2026 08:59:27
First thing is the players will be fitter and not get out run every game, so performances will improve, add the change in style and hopefully we win more. At least it'll be worth watching.

05 Jun 2026 09:26:35
Even against a low block, if you have attacking players making runs for the likes of Wirtz to find you can still create chances. Movement in attack moves the defence around and creates spaces. Last season we had none of that - virtually no movement off the ball and players were just walking around or standing waiting for the ball.

That is why we could create nothing against poor teams who sat back. I'm pretty certain that Iraola won't put up with any of that walking around nonsense.

05 Jun 2026 13:22:31
If we move the ball quick enough we can beat the low block.

Klopp had the low block ... and just think how many chances we missed in his last season ... Nunez, for example, could have missed more decent chances in one game than what we created in a month of Slot ball.

05 Jun 2026 00:47:05
I see Arsenal and ManU are apparently trying to get Bouaddi. I was seriously hoping we would go for him. Lille apparently asking for 70mil but given his trajectory so far, he will be worth every penny. Aggressive MF, good on the ball, has clearly worked on his right foot in the last year as it is miles better than it was (suggesting he is not resting on his laurels but seeking to improve).

Passing improving. Looks like he has the pace and power to cope with PL.

04 Jun 2026 22:34:43
I don't know if this has been talked about already, I assume it has. But does anyone else think our new home shirt is bad?

It's honestly the first one I haven't liked in a long while. It looks like an old bedsheet I used to have as a kid.

05 Jun 2026 07:32:23
It's awful. It looks like the team have shorts from one kit shirt from another. Bin it now. Or make the red deeper. That's not Shankley red !!

05 Jun 2026 09:28:44
I don't mind the shirt, but I don't like the fact that it is a different red to the shorts.

05 Jun 2026 16:04:00
Yeah, they completely missed the mark with that kit. Thing is, that's actually the way it was on the original, but they should have taken some creative license and improved it. Same shade of red and run the pattern through the shorts and socks would have looked 10x times better.

04 Jun 2026 19:49:45
We got him. Iraola is the Liverpool manager.

04 Jun 2026 19:40:40
Confirmed Iraola is the new coach on BBC and The Times.

Robbo called it weeks ago.

04 Jun 2026 16:09:34
Is Yan Diomande really worth the hype and shelling out crazy money for???

04 Jun 2026 17:45:24
Leipzig paid £15m last summer. Now demanding £100m.

04 Jun 2026 18:50:32
Nobody is forcing us to pay it, Keegan's. We can say no. Also the 15m last year is irrelevant, that was last year.

04 Jun 2026 19:15:38
Scary, not many big money signings from Germany do great in prem. We've still got fingers crossed for Wirtz atm.

04 Jun 2026 22:05:28
Haaland, Kompany, De Bruyne, Havertz, Auba, Heung Min, and Bobby all done pretty well.

04 Jun 2026 06:46:20
I think my favourite potential player signings for an Iraola team this summer are as follows:

RB- Palestra
CB- Lacroix or Zabaryni
DM- Sangare.
Mid- Scott.
RW- Rayan.
LW- Barcola.
FW- Not sure as options are poor but Lewandowski (2yr deal) is not discounted.

Thiago and Milner to join the BR staff with Tommy Elphick and the Pau De La Torre bloke (Fitness).



Isak given a full pre-season and starting place from Match #1 as I still believe he can shine.

No room for Elliott, Jones, Gakpo or MacAllister in the squad sell, sell, sell, sell.
Keep Allisson one more season and give as much game time to Pesci as possible.

04 Jun 2026 08:08:10
Barcola looks like a lw version of Frimpong to me, yosser, swerve him.

04 Jun 2026 02:12:35
A quick post about Ibrahima Konate. He's recently come out and said that he has struggled with depression.

I myself suffer with anxiety and other such issues. I am also a firm believer in carrying on and stepping out of that front door every day. This is my life and I have to help myself.



It seems to me that Ibou, last season, gave as much of himself as he possibly could. We all remember him returning quickly and scoring after his father died.

Money, status, etc. doesn't change how we feel, it can effect everyone.

I guess all I want to say is that it's better to be kind if we can.

04 Jun 2026 07:05:48
We've all been critical of Ibou, but yes, I feel like most fans have forgotten what YNWA stands for. Once a Red, always a Red. Konate had an unbelievably tough year on and especially off the field. But he showed up every week, yes he was far from perfect, but without him last season it would have been even worse due to the lack of centre half options.

Not devastated to see him leave as the damage is probably irreparable at this stage, but am disappointed he's gone for free and some of the comments on Liverpool pages make me question some.

We expect undivided loyalty from players, but as soon as their performances drop, the abuse some receive is way too personal.

Thanks for the time, Ibou, thanks for the trophies, and best of luck in the new role. Although Madrid is an awful move, I still wish him well, until he faces the Reds again!

04 Jun 2026 08:22:22
Terrible year for the lad alright. Just glad he sorted them bonuses out at Madrid at the end of it.

04 Jun 2026 09:53:41
Read the room, Florian.

04 Jun 2026 10:19:16
Been a horrible year for the lad. Something about this whole Real move smells fishy. Two things can be true at once, BeKind.

04 Jun 2026 10:28:23
Agreed, but time and place, buddy.

04 Jun 2026 11:03:52
No two things don’t always have to be true, especially when it comes to mental health. He may have simply wanted to get a fresh start away from a place he associates sadness with, which, now he’s mentioned his mental state, I completely understand.

04 Jun 2026 11:20:56
Ok, lads. Maybe that's what should have been said by everyone on here since January when his father passed away.

04 Jun 2026 12:51:15
Contracts, by their very nature, are run down over a multi-year period rather than being a knee-jerk, last-minute decision. I've no doubt the move to RM has been in the works for some time, and will probably pre-date the more recent challenges the player faced.

It seems the club did make an offer, but it's said the fine details on image rights and bonuses were never finalised, which is often a strategy used by either side to drag out a negotiation.



The thing is, it's probably in the best interests of the player for a change of scenery. The majority of the fans have lost faith in his ability, which can be difficult to retrieve. Time to move on. I wish him well, unless he plays against us.

04 Jun 2026 12:58:05
I've all the sympathy in the world for personal issues. As soon as I heard about his father, I said on here that he gets a pass for poor performances this season, but none of this has anything to do with the fact that he intentionally led the club to believe he would re-sign just so he could run his contract down without being dropped, something that's been going on for over 2 years now.

For that, he deserves whatever criticism he gets.

04 Jun 2026 13:22:44
Yeah seems like YNWA means you'll never win alone cos all the fans come crawling out to sing when we're winning.

04 Jun 2026 16:11:02
Chewy, how do you know he led the club up the garden path? You think that the club is naive to carry on negotiations knowing he wasn't going to sign. Scurrilous accusations are too often on this forum!

04 Jun 2026 17:21:09
We've been in negotiations since late 2023, and now he's off to Real, just like Trent, who did the exact same thing. You'd have to be thick as 2 planks to think it's all coincidence.

Your statement contradicts itself. The club never 'knows' someone is going to sign. They can only presume that the player wants to, based on the fact that they are willing to negotiate.

It's an assumption, there's no guarantee, no possibility of the club gauging the player's actual intent. The club cannot read minds. We all know players will gladly partake in the process to stay the repercussions of formally denying an extension.

03 Jun 2026 22:05:23
Just saw interview by the regular Dutch national team TV journalist after the match with Virgil. As he had not spoken to Virgil yet about sacking of Slot, he asked Virgil when he knew about it and if club spoke with him. Slot knew it only Saturday morning and Virgil got the info from social media and 'said' he was surprised, same as Slot.

Isn't it strange the journo asked? Well, nowadays people benefit to spread such news early, as first. It is the world we live in. He only spoke to the club later in the afternoon after it was already public.

03 Jun 2026 23:58:05
There's no reason a player should know the manager is getting sacked before the manager, or any reason the club would want to speak to a player on the matter; even if a player heard rumours, they would never admit it to the press.

Not at the time, anyway. The manager gets sacked, then club makes an announcement, and everybody finds out.

No idea why the journo said "isn't it strange". I suppose he was just fishing.

04 Jun 2026 02:02:55
I think all the playing staff should know before the likes of club journalists and social media. Leaks can't be stopped, but the club captain should not be finding out through social media.

04 Jun 2026 13:04:26
Considering the efforts to plug leaks, I think it's expected. The club wants to release a statement immediately upon termination, but if they wait to tell all the players and staff, it would certainly get leaked.