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23 Apr 2026 23:20:26
I genuinely didn’t mean to sound condescending or whatever with earlier post folks!

By the sounds of it no 1 at LFC can say with absolute certainty what is going to happen beyond this season!

A lot of big teams will be in the market for the same managers so if Slot sees out his contract and things go badly then by Christmas there will be less attainable options!

A lot up in the air at the moment.

Will Champions League be enough for Slot to remain and is he even happy to stay?

If Alonso didn’t have links to LFC, Writz and Frimpong would he be a noticeable upgrade?

Iraola by all accounts is homesick and would doing well at Bournemouth translate to success at LFC?

Sebastian Hoeness is punching above his weight in Germany but would be a gamble!

When Rodgers was sacked Carlo and Jurgen were attainable! There doesn’t seem to be to be an obvious answer this time!

I am trying to illustrate that going down a rabbit hole about Slot in the absence of certainty could drive anyone insane LOL!

23 Apr 2026 13:32:33
According to El Correo - newspaper headquartered in Bilbao - Athletic Bilbao have an agreement in place with Edin Terzic, so Iraola won't be going there.

23 Apr 2026 18:36:13
Why would he want to join LFC with the complete mess that Clot has left, it took LFC 30 years to win their first PL, another major rebuild is on the cards, as Clot has utterly failed with his first rebuild attempt.

Iraola has rebuilt Bournemouth with meagre funds in three seasons, average home gates of 11, 000, a vastly under rated manager, which proves his managerial and coaching skills are second to none, he uses his football acumen to solve problems which is the best and cheapest.

We used to be in the top echelon of clubs, now we are in the race to the bottom under Clot.

23 Apr 2026 19:08:40
Stopped at why would he want to join LFC.

23 Apr 2026 20:18:28
Stopped when I saw it was written by 007

24 Apr 2026 09:22:20
Ed's please can you do something about this 007 bloke? He's going around all the pages calling Slot by the name "Clot" and it's just vitriol and abuse. He's not actually posting anything constructive or worthwhile debate.

He's just a troll calling our current manager names. It's unbecoming of a Liverpool supporter. I don't wish to tell you how to run your site, but posters like that offer nothing of any value and will just drive way good posters.

{Ed001's Note - if you think that is a problem, you really are soft. Hardly abusive is it? You wouldn't last 5 minutes in a Liverpool household if you think calling him Clot is abusive. You need to go watch some clips of Paul Smith and then you will get some idea of what a family dinner is like, then you will realise that it is not vitriol, it is teasing.}

24 Apr 2026 11:16:34
Ed001, I meant his whole posts in terms of the vitriol and abuse, not just that one word (that's just childish more than anything; similar to when people used to call Hodgson, "Woy"). He's just going over the top with the slating and posting the same thing over and over again.

I'm all for banter and I'm glad some of my group chats will never see the light of day, trust me. But it's not really banter what he's doing because for a start, Slot's not even on these pages! He's just posting overly negative waffle over and over again and calling people stupid names.

{Ed001's Note - you don't like what he has to say, so ignore him. It is not difficult to scroll past.}

23 Apr 2026 09:41:43
I see the Rafael Leao links are back in the online media today. I really want to believe we'll be shopping at the level of Leao, Barcola, Diomande and Olise. If we added 2 wingers of that caliber we'd be some team next season. Isak would also have a field day next season with that kind of service.

23 Apr 2026 10:52:47
Never really been that impressed with Leao on the few times i've seen him play 90 mins.Bit of a show pony.People won't agree but i'd rather have Gakpo.More end product.

23 Apr 2026 11:12:30
Only one of those will give you the pressing ability we need right now. Diomande.

23 Apr 2026 13:28:09
FPF, Diomande is 100% my first choice. He's exceptionally gifted and hard working.

23 Apr 2026 14:51:06
Whenever I have watched leao he's looked decent when he's got the ball, but without he's looked lazy. Doesn't look the type of player to bust a gut to help lb out if he got caught out of position. But i don't watch ac week in, week out so i could be wrong

23 Apr 2026 15:02:43
This is one of the occasions where I agree with you FM regarding both Leao and Gakpo.

23 Apr 2026 09:21:26
Looking at where Wirtz plays for Germany, and they always have him on the left in a 4231. Occasionally on the left in a 433 and the left 10 in the odd occasion it's a 3421. So with that in mind do we see a 4231 going forward with Wirtz on the left with Dom in the middle?

23 Apr 2026 10:54:31
I'd rather him in the 10 with Dom behind.Would rather pace on the wing.Always thought Wirtz was a strange buy when we had Dom.

23 Apr 2026 11:08:31
I wouldn't worry about that positions when team sheets are announced, e.g against Ghan I think Gnabry was central, but he was out further right on the heat map and average position than Havertz. Woltemade was also the deepest player of the front 4 against solvakia if i remember but he was the striker.

He might be listed left side, but he's probably the more central one, a lot of front 3/4 players play a lot more fluid today than 20 years ago

23 Apr 2026 13:05:22
@FM, I think Wirtz was signed with the expectation of being our main man for the next decade. He has not fulfilled up to the hype this season, but you can see he is class, and hopefully next season onwards we can truly see his best.

I think Dom should be an 8 anyway, but we need to build our team around the attacking talents of Wirtz and Isak now.

23 Apr 2026 17:06:24
Hopefully Kop

23 Apr 2026 00:44:37
This new manager talk is starting to get a bit tiresome. We are left with the following:-
Slot stays for the last year of his contract. At the end of it all three of Slot, Hughes and Edwards leave.

Slot goes and is replaced by someone new. Contradictory reports of it being Alonso or now Hoeness.

Iraola is liked but wants to return home.

Could it be a lot of disinformation is being put out to find or plug the leaks? For me no matter who's in charge next season, we must get recruitment spot on and the players need a look in the mirror and put a shift in next year.

23 Apr 2026 12:14:04
Most ITK's seem to agree that talks with Alonso have staled but are not unrecoverable, and that Hoeness is likely the prime candidate IF Slot is going and the Alonso deal can't be done. That's my understanding anyway.

22 Apr 2026 22:24:57
All hope is not lost. We can still, theoretically, win the league.

{Ed025's Note - hmmm..theoretically i could have a 3 way with Emilia Fox and Carol Vorderman.. :)

23 Apr 2026 00:25:26
The ditties on Carol these days, and arse, walking round looking like Iggy Azalea from the neck down. Hadn't seen her for years, couldn't believe what I was looking at.

23 Apr 2026 09:39:32
Sadly looking more Carol Alien nowadays.

23 Apr 2026 11:11:11
Come on lads, you still would though ha

22 Apr 2026 17:54:50
Club re-iterating what I have been saying for months. Alonso is just not the right guy for us. Glad this chapter is over.

I like slot in the fact that he has been not been affected by all the crap published and said about him in media and has instilled enough confidence in powers that run the club to back him at least publicly unlike some other clubs.


Now he just needs to change his tactics to get these playing to their best potential.

22 Apr 2026 18:43:47
But he won't change. He hasn't since March last year when we'd already won the league. If we hadn't fluked those first 4/5 wins we'd be looking at the middle to bottom of the table. Simply not good enough. 5th place is not guaranteed and we're 20 odd points off the top.

It's not a blip. It's a huge mistake to keep him. He's stubborn and the football is boring and he alienates players. I don't like it. Thanks for the league title now move on.

22 Apr 2026 19:38:20
Cafu, why should he change now? He's fundamentally changed the way the team plays, which started last February and we've gotten steadily worse ever since. The tactics seem non existent, the style of play is horrendous, you could drive a bus through the holes in our midfield every game, the slow style doesn't fit the players & he's changed the training to such a extent that the players are not fit enough to press or run for 90 mins which is why we've struggled increasingly badly the longer the game goes.


Have there been any signs things are improving? What are you seeing the rest of us can't? We can't blame new players & transitioning this season because we were awful at last 3 months of last year by which time Slot had instilled his methods & klopps was being phased out.
We've gone from being extremely good to watch to being one of the worst.
If he stays worrying times indeed - think it'll be a Rodgers and he'll be out by Christmas but then all the best options will be gone

23 Apr 2026 00:38:34
If the Alonso deal is not getting done it has absolutely nothing to do with the club "thinking he's not the right man for the job". that's complete and utter nonsense mate, we wanted him when Klopp left, he was first choice over Slot, and he's first choice now. The most obvious issue putting a stop to the deal would be the lack of control he would have over the direction the club wants to take the team in regards to transfers & contracts under the current model.

A few on here felt from day 1 that Hughes/Edwards might need sacking to bring in Alonso, and as I said before there's no way FSG aare going to sack everybody in one fell swoop, even if they wanted to, the optics of that are just way to negative. If they could bring Xabi in under the current model they would, no doubt, the club has no issue with Alonso, it's Alonso that has issue with the club, if he's not coming in, it's by his own design.

22 Apr 2026 17:44:57
See Chelsea have sacked another manager. How many is that now in last 5 years?

22 Apr 2026 18:43:25
8, I think.

23 Apr 2026 06:49:21
Do they need to pay off his 6 year contract? Of so the culture of rewarding failure is staggering.
6 years football manager salary for 3 months work and not even doing well. Madness.

{Ed001's Note - no, just a small (in football terms) pay off.}

22 Apr 2026 11:26:12
What’s the perfect summer, lads, with ins and outs?

Mine goes -
Outs -
Gomez - 8-10m
Robbo - Free
Endo - 6-8m
Elliot - 25-30m
Macalister - 50-60m
Gakpo - 50-60m
Bajetic - 15m
Salah - Free
Chiesa - 15-20m
TOTAL - Around the 160m mark.

Ins -
Diomande - 70m plus add ons.


Joao Gomez - 30m
Djed Spence - 25m
Adam Wharton - 65m plus add ons
Endrick - Loan with a buy clause (80+?)
Cheap Striker for cover 20m max?
TOTAL - Around the 240m mark with the loan fee.

Should have some cash to spend and we will be saving money on wages of a few we have let go.

22 Apr 2026 13:00:36
Gakpos not going anywhere with Ekitike out for a year.

22 Apr 2026 13:04:53
Djed Spence??

DJED SPENCE!?!?!?!?

22 Apr 2026 15:14:43
Why does everyone seem to be so intent on selling Baj? He hasn't played in 2 years, no body is going to pay 15mn for him. On the other hand, if he can recover properly, he might actually be a very useful Endo replacement, and someone by virtue of his qualities on the ball, Slot might trust a lot more.

22 Apr 2026 15:51:44
Risser (GK), A.Gray (RB/DM), A.Wharton (CM), L.Camara (DM/CM), Y.Diomande(RW/LW), B.Toure (LW, LWB).

Plus adding some more young players from M.Mane, S.Mayulu, J.Monga, D.Banjaqui, A.Bouaddi and C.Yirenki - subject to cost.

22 Apr 2026 17:17:00
DJED SPENCE!!!

22 Apr 2026 17:24:52
You a fan of FM26 by any chance FPF? ?

22 Apr 2026 19:12:32
Never played it before, Chaningofthegvardiol.

I am simply looking at how many players will be left after this set of directors have shipped out everyone.

Mo, Alisson, Robbo, Macca, Curtis, Chiesa and possibly Gomez leaving while Bradley, Ekitike have long term injuries from a squad is already thin.

22 Apr 2026 19:50:27
DJed Spence? No thanks.

As for Endrick he should not even be in the conversation given how he was actively trying to injure our players a couple of years back for Madrid.