Liverpool other posts 4

25 Mar 2026 14:46:08
Jamie O Hara. ?? That's some comment that ??.

25 Mar 2026 14:42:30
How confident are we in Alonso? Watched the Leverkusen system and it was OK but he got battered by us and we also defeated his Madrid.

So yea hanging my head out but it will a 2-3 year build with Alonso before we see trophies.

25 Mar 2026 17:40:38
I can see the fans being really happy to build for 2-3 years before we see trophies.

25 Mar 2026 18:15:34
So very true... Might as well stick with Slot then.
Better the devil you know and all that...

25 Mar 2026 18:30:14
So we should only employ a manager that Liverpool have never beaten? That's going to be a short shortlist.

25 Mar 2026 18:52:48
Gtf 2 - 3 yr rebuild? Start that palaver, and we be doing what Utd have done for last 10+ years. Should and need to challenge next season.

25 Mar 2026 19:00:02
Spot on, JLC. In Slot we trust!

To get the fk out of dodge!

Cafu, how much did you watch Leverkusen when Alonso was in charge? stop acting like you knew how they played when it's pretty obvious you haven't got a clue.

25 Mar 2026 21:02:42
Right or wrong, Cafu, thanks for starting a conversation! Most on here, don't they just sit n snipe at those that do! It's much easier for them that way, but keep up the good work.

25 Mar 2026 23:07:22
As long as he doesn't take us back to the worst football we've seen since the Hodgson era, Florian.

25 Mar 2026 23:14:34
It won a league, Rabbity, in fairness. And, as much as people want a different style, I can assure you they'll want trophies with it.

25 Mar 2026 23:37:54
I'm not just talking about style, Florian. I'm talking about its effectiveness too. 1.58 points per game this season. Only Souness and Hodgson are worse in the Premier League era.

Last season wasn't quite this style. It was more of a transition from Klopp to this. This style is completely useless.

25 Mar 2026 06:47:23
Morning Eds, surprised Akliouche is not being more strongly linked as Mo's replacement. A wand of a left foot, speed and technique, and the best player on the pitch during the PSG tie. They obviously want him too, but at 24, he's the right age and with two years left on his contract, should not be overpriced like Diomonde.

25 Mar 2026 10:15:47
I am intrigued by these links to Aklioche and Olise, but I honestly just think that in the Premier League pace is more important for a wide man. Salah and Mane were terrifying in full flight. Hazard and Pedro at Chelsea too. Sane and Sterling were the same at City. Giggs and Ronaldo at United ruined defences. Mahrez and Sterling at City won everything. Robben and Duff at Chelsea were lethal. Now we're seeing Doku and Semenyo at City, and Saka and Martinelli at Arsenal causing teams no end of trouble. Aklioche and Olise are not particularly fast, relative to other wingers, and I just don't think that will get the best out of Isak or Ekitike in the Premier League. I know there's been the odd Pires or Beckham who buck that trend and didn't need pace to be brilliant in the Prem, but it is quite rare as opposed to how many wingers have succeeded just by being able to go past 1 or 2 defenders in an instant.

Look at how much trouble this season Minteh, Gordon, Yilmaz, Doku, Semenyo, Ouattara, Matheus Mane etc have caused us as a team. None of them are as good as Olise on paper, and yet if we get past PSG by some miracle I'm more worried about the prospect of Luis Diaz or Vini Jr than I am about Olise or Rodrygo.

Purely and simply, because blistering pace is undefendable if that player has a good day.

I really want Yan Diomande as a priority, and as unpopular as this will be, someone like Gordon, Minteh, Ouattara or Yilmaz would be my choice for the opposite flank. Just a horribly aggressive and terrifyingly quick housery master. I think if we put some genuine and terrifying pace either side of Isak/Ekitike, we'll see just how good they are and our strikers will bag the goals we need. The system is more important than the individual. Isak shone at Newcastle because he had Gordon and Murphy either side of him, who were just quick wingers who beat their man and whipped it across. Did we pay £125m on Isak to not build the team around him? Olise will do what Salah has been doing this season. He'll cut back and float crosses into the box. That's fine if you are Harry Kane and thrive off backing into big CB's, but that's not fine if you're Isak, who weighs 10stone wet through and needs to get a run on big CB's.

25 Mar 2026 10:55:39
Agree on the pace and power. Would bring out the best in Wirtz. And if they're also hardworking like Gordon or Diomande, it would help balance out Hugo and Ekitike, not exactly been pressing monsters.

25 Mar 2026 11:04:49
I'm 100% with you on Diomande. For me, it is a no-brainer. Fantastic player who has already said that he wants to play for us.

They are still young and need to continue to develop, but in a couple of years, Rio and Diomande along with Wirtz, Isak & Ekitike would be a truly scary forward line.

25 Mar 2026 12:18:22
You can't replace Salah. You have to get the best of what's available and adapt a bit. If we are getting a new manager, the shape and style of okay will be changing anyway (thankfully).

25 Mar 2026 13:06:46
Gordon gets such bad reviews on here, but the guy is aggressive, fast, gets goals and assists. So what if he goes down rather easily, so does the entire Arsenal team, most of City and almost every forward and winger in Europe with the exception of Mo. I think he'd be miles better than Gakpo at LW, nite and day, imo.

25 Mar 2026 13:12:29
Only bloke who could replace Salah's numbers in this league is Mbappe for me. We don't need Salah numbers from our wingers going forward. Next season we'll have a guy in the middle who will absolutely hoover up chances in Isak. Ten to 15 goals from our wingers will be ok.

25 Mar 2026 13:42:55
Florian, we don't always agree on the managerial stuff, but I completely agree with you here. In recent years the likes of Salah, Mane, Son and Sterling have really warped the expectations of what wingers should do in terms of goal output.

When you see players like Doku, Savinho, Saka, Trossard, Martinelli etc driving their sides up the table it should be enough for people to realise that wingers don't have to score shed loads of goals to be effective in a well balanced team. A quick and direct winger who commits players creates space for others and drives the team up the pitch into areas where things can drop kindly for you. They make things happen. We had a little bit of a golden era for goalscoring wingers in the last decade, and we were lucky enough to have 2 of the very best in our team for a long time.

It now has to be about how we get the most out of our strikers though, because Mbuemo and Semenyo were the next best goalscoring natural wingers to crop up and they've now gone to our rivals and are therefore completely unobtainable. The next best available if people want a proper winger who also scores goals is Jarrod Bowen but he is 29 years old, not a sexy name and not a long term solution. So I doubt people will be happy if we sign him.

I honestly think Diomande and Gordon/Yilmaz would be boss for us at RW and LW. Wirtz in AM with Isak at CF, and Ekitike able to rotate with all 4 of them, seeing as he can play every attacking role. That just feels more balanced to me as an attacking unit.

25 Mar 2026 14:10:29
That's a good attacking unit, MK. With Rio and hopefully young Josh Abe pushing through, getting more minutes.

25 Mar 2026 17:32:06
I think Gordon is a fantastic player. Just my opinion. He'd be a great fit for Liverpool.

25 Mar 2026 17:35:31
Gordon for me. Red Scouse, home grown, aggressive, works hard and back, things most are not.

25 Mar 2026 18:06:25
Gordon looks bang average to me, Stewart Downing vibes, a lot of money for very little player. Prefer someone like Diomande who looks like he could become a real star.

26 Mar 2026 11:35:19
100% MK. I'm worried about the strong Olise links... he's not the type of winger we need at all, completely agree we need pace and power on the wings.

24 Mar 2026 22:03:41
Farewell Mo, hopefully a bit of motivation for him to find the old Mo a few more times before the season is out.

Reading that we’ve mutually agreed to terminate his contract at season’s end.

Amazing ending for the club who apparently only buy cheap to sell for a profit.

24 Mar 2026 21:23:50
I read somewhere Mo only missed 9 games in 9 seasons in the Prem. If correct, that has to be a record that will never be bettered, especially for a winger, and given that modern-day players are so much softer and injury-prone, the best ability is availability.

25 Mar 2026 04:49:18
I think he's missed more just due to AFCON over the years.
Maybe missed 9 games due to injury... now that's remarkable if true.

24 Mar 2026 21:02:15
Born in the late 90s I've seen some great players in my time - Gerrard, Alonso, Owen, Torres and Suarez and seen us win trophies

But with Salah, I saw us win everything that there was to win.

He helped give me a taste of what it must of been like to be a red in the 70s and 80s and what my dad experienced.

Thank you Mo, while I breath your name will never be forgotten.

24 Mar 2026 20:44:39
So just a thought, did FSG not pursue a multi club senario because they intended to sack Edwards and didn't want him in charge of that multi club ownership senario.

24 Mar 2026 22:38:26
Hopefully.

24 Mar 2026 23:14:46
Multi-club is a stupid idea that has enormous costs, risks and, in practice, very little benefit. You still have to pay an official market price for sister club players. It's also a lot simpler to find a handful of clubs you trust to loan players to.



A good scouting and loan system is much more sensible than multi-club ownership so it would be better for FSG to put their energy into improving that.

24 Mar 2026 20:33:59
Favourite Salah goal ?? Man City. The dribble.

25 Mar 2026 17:05:53
Salah not only had pace, he could find a pass out of nothing, score goals from all angles and his movement had defenders falling over themselves. We need a similar player, who that is, I don't know...

{Ed025's Note - ilman Ndiaye?..

24 Mar 2026 20:32:09
Ok, so this is me thinking out loud and talking rubbish again, but I'm trying to find a positive form this! So none of us knows what goes on behind the scenes, but maybe the up above s feel mo (as much as we love him) ha been sniping behind slots back (n he's right too), but they don't want a repeat when Alonso takes over in the summer if he doesn't think he's first choice? I just hope it doesn't mean slot is staying.

24 Mar 2026 22:50:42
Clearly, Mo is not a fan of Slotball. That's been evident for most of the season. He's leaving because he wants out, not because higher-ups want him gone. Obviously, they would rather get a fee for him, and if it was their choice it certainly wouldn't go down like this. He wants to leave of his own accord and I believe he wants that fact to be very apparent, hence the early reveal. He doesn't like how Slot does things, it's ruined his impeccable form and he probably feels he's accomplished enough and too old now to have to worry about bouncing back, considering his high standards.

Mo would have no more idea who the next manager is going to be right now than we do, because the owners don't even know yet. I would imagine that this is something he decided long before now and has likely been in the works for several months. I certainly wouldn't be taking it as an indication of who the next manager might be.

25 Mar 2026 14:23:35
Mo knows that it is only gonna get harder for him to keep his place in the starting line-up. He doesn't want to be a squad player coming on from the bench, and why should he, when he still has more than enough to be a hero for a new team in a league where he will get a bit more time on the ball. He's earned the chance to leave on his terms rather than fade out via the substitutes bench.



Klopp said something along the lines of that he had never had any trouble with Salah other than when he didn't pick him or when he substituted him. The guy wants to play every minute, and to do that he unfortunately needs to move on. He's more than paid the club back for what they shelled out for him. He will forever be part of the club's history, and I wish him well.