03 Dec 2025 08:19:40
Ed001 is it true that Slot lives in Manchester? If so why?

{Ed001's Note - yes mate, he lives in Hale so that he can be nearer the airport to go back to Holland during the week.}

1.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 08:45:12
I only just found that out recently and I honestly thought that it was a joke. That's a sign of somebody not very committed. Like how can you get the feel of a club if you don't even live in the area ?‍♂️.

2.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 08:58:41
Needs must, Barry. I'm sure you would agree, family come first. Personally, I couldn't care less. How many of the players actually live in Liverpool.

3.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 09:12:37
I couldn't either Rome, bloke has to see his family. Nobody would put their job before their family in fairness.

4.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 09:23:44
we really digging to find something else to moan at Slot about? is Robbo not committed for living in Wimslow? embarrassing.

5.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 09:31:18
Flying back to the Netherlands during the week ed? I thought that was only during international breaks.

{Ed001's Note - nope. He stays there so he can go home as often as possible.}

6.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 09:49:46
He can live on the moon for all I care, as long as we are wining games of football.

7.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 09:56:34
Kloppers you find it ok that Slot lives in Manchester I actually don't and please don't call me or my questions embarrassing again.

8.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 10:04:38
Again, could align with Carra saying Slot is not long term. Certainly doesn't sound sustainable over many years, whether it's family doesn't want to relocate or Slot doesn't want to leave home?

9.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 10:18:20
Once the bloke leaves the training ground he's entitled to do what he wants, if he wants to put all that travelling on himself to see his family during his private life that's his right. Not every wife and kids are willing to uproot to another country.

10.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 10:35:29
Must only be an hour and a half or so, pretty straight forward really depending on where his home is in the Netherlands.

11.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 10:47:36
It’s not digging him out to state the obvious we need someone committed to the cause not if I get time. Maybe it’s not the job for him if he wants to live in Holland fair enough.

12.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 10:53:39
Hope he’s not turning into the Dutch Alan Partridge, living in a travel lodge.

13.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 10:56:57
If only Liverpool had an airport.

14.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 10:25:13
Ed001, do you believe this will be the reason he leaves due to being homesick?

{Ed001's Note - I think he will end up losing his job due to not being committed enough to it. It is hard to focus when you miss your family. I don't understand why he doesn't live in Liverpool and fly from JLA though, at least then he would get to know the vibe of the city properly. Even better, get his family over.}

15.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 12:13:38
Cut the guy some slack. Slot didn't have his family with him for majority of last season always coming home to an emty house except during int'l break. I didn't say that. He did in an interview last season. Was committment a problem last season then? Or are we just manufacturing outrage for no reason? Serious question, btw.

I lived far away from my immediate fam (in another thousands of miles away) for years and it was tough and really hard so I can emathize with Slot on this point.

IMO, Family is very important and I'm happy he has a chance to go see them, as often as possible esp. now with the issues he and the team has on the pitch. A great family support system is key and very important on life. Just my take.

{Ed001's Note - so move them over then. Or live in Liverpool at the very least. You are just making excuses. The players see a man buggering off to Holland all the time and then we wonder why they look half-arsed. They are following his example. Don't take a job if you are not going to do it properly, especially not on his salary.}

16.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 12:14:12
H'ON THE BARRY! . ????.

17.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 12:17:19
Family first and always.
I don’t care where he lives, if he turns up for work on time every day and puts in 100%, that’s all that matters.

18.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 12:29:55
I think quite a few players live out that way, it’s more Cheshire than Manchester in reality but technically falls within GM. I guess amongst other things for him it’s easier and more anonymous to fly from Manchester as there are more flights to Amsterdam than from Liverpool.

Let’s be honest though you can live in Liverpool area and be at Manchester Airport in 30-40 mins so I don’t think it’s necessary unless you’re flying everyday. It was said he was offered places in Freshfield, South Liverpool, and Wirral where most other players and staff live but he declined.

It doesn’t really matter if someone chooses to live elsewhere, but there’s always the optics when things aren’t going well about a connection with the place. For those who remember Stan Colymore, a slightly more extreme example, was that player who was a record buy but spent a lot of time on the M6, and never seemed settled. There’s been others too since then, it does give an impression of someone passing through.

People really liked Rafa and Jurgen because of their connections with the area, and the work their families did for local charities, even though they lived in very exclusive enclaves in Caldy and Freshfield. They were just thought of as extensions of Liverpool and people appreciated that. Houllier lived by Sefton Park if I remember rightly so it does mean something, even if the days of being truly local are well gone.

19.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 12:52:57
I repeat, I don't care where he lives. Nobody mentioned this last season. His kids are in the last years of school, and last year they were doing exams and he obviously wouldn't have wanted to disrupt that. Maybe they want to stay in the Netherlands (shock, horror) . Absolute tosh to blame this on players not performing. We won the kin league for gawd sake.

20.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 13:02:17
Or what Barry? your digging someone out for not living in Liverpool he lives 30 minutes away. you do realize a lot of the squad live that way and only a few live in Formby.

21.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 13:09:28
Travelling during the international breaks makes sense to me but I don't think it's sustainable in the long term to be doing it during the week.

22.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 13:21:45
His family mustnt want to move which is understandable, doesn't he have a couple of teenagers? And everyone buggers off somewhere after the work on the training ground is done, just with Slot its sometimes on a very short flight to Holland. Just out of curiousity how many times a week are we talking about?

23.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 13:24:41
No need to be so petulant Kloppers. I would never and have never called anyone embarrassing on this site. You're just being an ass for the sake of it.

24.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 13:36:47
In answer to the question do many live locally, the answer is yes many of them do. Coaches and back room staff do as well, you see them about and their children are in local schools around where I live.

It obviously shifts over time but over recent teams Matip, Firminho, Kuyt, Reina, Leiva, Skrtel, Alonso, Sterling for example all lived around Woolton, Cressington, Allerton and Mossley Hill areas for some of their time with the club. One of the directors had a place in Woolton village for a bit, before going back to the US, one of the directors has a place in West Derby for match days and weekends, but lives in Scotland during the week.

In the Brendan and Jurgen era lots including them lived in Blundellsands, Freshfield or Formby and still do, with a couple in Wirral and Ormskirk.

Some of the British players have always chosen to live a bit further out for whatever reason.

25.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 13:37:52
Yep half arsed.

26.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 14:25:53
???. I love it when there are fireworks on here; even for the most inconsequential thing. If fans want to have a say on where their team's manager lives, then fine. And if fans want their manager to be with their family, that's fine too. But can't we talk about it without getting all personal and twisting undergarments? ???.

27.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 15:04:43
You can’t even get from our house to the axa in 30 mins.

Ordinarily everyone would agree family before work but being a football manager is not an ordinary job. We know when the boss is not around our effort goes down a bit. I think he will lose his job in the summer he doesn’t seem bothered so why should we.

28.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 15:36:14
??????????? H'ON THE LOUTH! I'M WITH BARRY! ??????.

29.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 16:15:41
@Barry questioning someone’s commitment for the (apparent) crime of living 30 miles away from where he works is blowing things way, way out of proportion. If you read a bit more about it - which was publicised when Sot first took up the post, the family made the decision that his wife and children would stay in Holland as the children were approaching a critical time in their schooling.

It was . Is an expedient solution and wasn’t an issue until this week when some people found out (during which intervening period Slot won the PL) .

30.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 16:38:30
I think any Liverpool manager should be living in the Merseyside area at the very least . also think the players should aswel. remember people moaning about Stan Collymore because he refused to move from his hometown ( Stone i think it was ) . you've got to be committed and show it . imagine all the Manchester players n managers Living in Merseyside.

31.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 16:43:41
Here was me thinking he slept in the goalmouth between games.

32.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 18:18:49
Ed01, Im not making excuses for Slot on this point. Far from it. Nor have I said the reason he has been failing is due to him not having his fam with him. At no point did or have I ever said that.

All I did was state that family is very important and if he has to take time of to go see his fam then, that should be his right provided this is baked in with the system he works under, agreed by the club. If it is not then, that is another matter.

Now if he is indeed having commitment issues to LFC due to him missing his fam way too much then by all means, he should resign and sort such stuff out in private. Just my opinion.

33.) 03 Dec 2025
03 Dec 2025 23:40:06
Tbf if he does live in Hale that’s basically the posh part of Speke. Not technically classed as Liverpool but you can cross a road and be in Speke which is very much Liverpool and next to the airport.