Liverpool banter 9

29 Nov 2025 17:10:55
Just watched the Sunderland v Bournemouth match, what a game . it had everything, goals, tackles, passion, yellow n red cards, proper English game . all the players giving everything . atmosphere sounded fantastic.

29 Nov 2025 17:34:18
What football should be like mate. If ariola set us up to play like that, with the players we have. Be a huge step towards getting to top. Does he really want to come and are we really wanting him Ed?

{Ed001's Note - we haven't approached him to know.}

29 Nov 2025 17:09:09
I have to say I think lfc can count their lucky stars they don’t face Sunderland and instead West Ham

They look really impressive and I wouldn’t have fancied our chances.

29 Nov 2025 17:39:32
Don't we play them next week?
But I assume you meant that we are away at West Ham and not away to Sunderland.

29 Nov 2025 18:03:46
Don't count them for too long RR.

29 Nov 2025 17:23:34
What have we become when some are counting their lucky stars we aren't playing Sunderland, what a mess.

29 Nov 2025 17:34:37
Personally I wish we were playing Sunderland tomorrow, they’d be absolutely knackered playing 2 games in 2 days.

29 Nov 2025 17:50:01
Thunderbird- they’d still run all over us given our approach to games.

29 Nov 2025 18:37:56
Might still be fitter than konate, salah and macca so far this season thunderbird.

30 Nov 2025 06:38:39
It doesn't matter which way round the West Ham and Sunderland fixtures are RR, we will lose them both, guaranteed!

Who on this forum truly believes otherwise? That's how bad things are right now.

We are becoming a laughing stock with our double transfer busting players hardly getting a look in.

{Ed025's Note - things can change very quickly in football KBL..

29 Nov 2025 17:03:36
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new podcast entitled, Allez, Allez, Allez Liverpool Podcast

30 Nov 2025 00:30:48
Barry! Nice one, mate, good to see you on this.

I’d love to see Dalglish come in as interim as well. I just adore the man. It’d be brilliant to see what he’d do, and I’m certain he’d love every second of it. I’m sure he’d jump at the chance.

And honestly, I think we’ll lose tomorrow as well. Some might slate me for saying it but I don’t care. I don’t think I’ve ever hoped for a loss before but I am now. If we win, Slot gets another stay of execution and we drag this mess out even longer. He’s not the man for this job and we can’t keep delaying the inevitable. If losing tomorrow means he’s finally gone, then as a one-off… I’ll take it.

30 Nov 2025 18:02:43
Hoping we lose so that a 74 year old can come in to manage us?
Come on, Salah; that is madness.

29 Nov 2025 16:21:45
Just wondering who is everyone’s first choice if Slot was to get sacked?

I keep seeing Iraola getting mentioned. However I would fancy Glasner for next season, that’s if we manage to get an interim for the time being.

29 Nov 2025 16:48:06
Glasner's style of play would put Anfield to sleep. Iraola's style is much more aligned.

29 Nov 2025 17:04:32
Big Ron?

29 Nov 2025 17:10:14
Don't think it's if but when he gets sacked. Can't see them beating west ham so he should be gone Monday. Iraola to replace him.

29 Nov 2025 17:15:29
I have liked Iraola for a while but defensively they are worse than us in the PL this season. Crystal Palace are the second best defensively behind only Arsenal. I would favour Glasner over Iraola at this time. Plays good attacking football and keeps them tight at the back.

{Ed001's Note - Glasner does not play good football.}

29 Nov 2025 17:29:50
Fabregas.

29 Nov 2025 17:42:14
Please not Glasner - just don’t think he’s the right fit for us

If we were going for a full on appointment mid season I’d go Iraola - if it’s an interim mid season then I’d exhaust every possibility of Enrique for next season - just my opinion.

29 Nov 2025 17:49:32
I want Slot to stay, but I am surprised no one has mentioned Silva as a potential replacement. He is certainly used to digging his teams out of a losing streak. I am not saying he would be ideal, but he should be in the conversation if people are suggesting Glasner.

29 Nov 2025 17:56:35
That’s an interesting shout RR!

Getting good reviews - I’ve always liked how he comes over when he’s on the tele box.

29 Nov 2025 17:06:40
Well BR i'm just thinking Iraola does not make us defensively sound.

29 Nov 2025 17:13:30
Really interested why people don't want Glasner. Is it simply because he plays a back 3?

Personally I think he plays the system that suites the players. With better class of player surly he would play a more attractive game. I personal think his record at Frankfurt? And Palace is a lesson in how to cut your cloth! Meaning he knows first and foremost how to set up a team. I'm not saying in anyway I want him, but I do think he would do better than what we have right now.

I honestly think Irriolla is not ready to be lfc manager. At least another 3 years yet. Very good potential for future.

My personal preference would be PSG guy lovely attacking footie. Or Alonso. 🙏if only I had a lamp to rub YNWA.

29 Nov 2025 17:05:40
Well Ed all I saw of them was playing us off the park twice recently so was going by that.

{Ed001's Note - they did it by sitting back and being organised defensively, not by playing attacking footie. They are boring, but very good.}

29 Nov 2025 22:12:01
Luis Enrique…. Turned the egos of PSG into a team… would love to see what he could do with this squad.

29 Nov 2025 23:08:35
Of all managers around my pick would be to get the best version of Slot. Seeing as he seems reluctant to return to what he was doing well last year, I would want Alonso to reunited him with Wirtz, Frimpong and have a historic connection with the club and fans.

I also like that he isn't afraid to play with a back 3, something I have always wanted us to try. Other than that anyone who gets is playing fast aggressive footy again. If that's the chap from Bournemouth then so be it.

30 Nov 2025 00:46:55
Chrisymate - We don't have three good CB's to play three at the back. We don't have one good CB at the moment. Yes Virgil, that includes you.

30 Nov 2025 09:01:44
it's a sucky question tbh.

But to answer, out of those options I'd go for Iraola.

We're also kinda completely disregarding that none of them are available currently. That sounds like bad news to me.

29 Nov 2025 15:15:23
What are we waiting on here? A final result to put a nail in the coffin in challenging atall for the league, with the players we have?
To go out of the champions league a lot sooner than expected and have financial strangulation for the following season/ seasons. If slots kept on and it severely damages us, Hughes and Edwards should be going to.


"we're Liverpool, we don't sack managers this early". Hence why we were left behind for years.
Slot hasn't a clue how to fix this. This is only prolonging the pain. A few decent results, then the final nail on the coffin to this dross and a season completely wrote off. The football is appalling. Forget individual mistakes. This football belongs in the bin.

29 Nov 2025 16:27:31
Batman, I've said a few times on here, we're backing him for the time being, at least. Suck if up, because he's going no where.

29 Nov 2025 17:11:41
Maybe you should suck it up because the sack is coming for him.

29 Nov 2025 17:20:39
Batman7

Agreed 😊

Too many people on here are rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.

£450 million.

These are NOT bad players. They prove it when they play for their respective countries.
Then they return to Liverpool and look like they are Spavined.!
There you go an Aintree expression. Spavined.!

29 Nov 2025 17:21:47
Season not written off. Second placed City barely managed to scrape past a woeful Leeds side after losing their last two since beating us.

If some thought the league was "weak" last year I would argue there is only one consistent side this season. We win tomorrow we're 4 points off second and potentially 8 points off the top.

In another month that can obviously change. Not advocating for Slot far from it but I believe in the players that we have and we can turn this around. I think we will see a change in manager and maybe we don't turn it around until then. I'm sure Hughes has a plan rain or shine.

29 Nov 2025 17:30:52
Really good article by the always thoughtful journalist Jonathan Northcroft in the Times today. He makes a really interesting point about how managerial sackings have accelerated since the launch of the iPhone. Ie social media has made everyone less patient, and trigger-happy.
He also pointed out how many more PMs we have had since the iphone launch in 2007, compared to the preceding 20 years.


There are, of course, more complex factors behind it all, but I do think we would all benefit from decision makers slowing down and taking stock before being forced into knee jerk decisions.

29 Nov 2025 17:34:32
We are currently 14th. Why should we suck it up?

29 Nov 2025 17:53:34
Attention spans are shorter, hence peoples tolerance for dross is less. Slot has been churning out atrocious football for sometime now.

Aside from the tribal and communal elements of being a football fan, we are here to be entertained.

Slot is welded to his one narrow vision of how the game should be played, and is more focused on that than working out how to get out of this aweful slump.

29 Nov 2025 17:22:00
Beg Tets, why should you, me and everyone else suck it up? Because, as it stands, Slot is being backed. THAT, is why we have to suck it up.

29 Nov 2025 17:23:21
🤣🤣🤣🤣 it's all Apples fault.

Behave knee Jerk reaction. Our poor play and results have Sweet FA to do with anything but the manager. We went from one of the best personality's in football to one of the worst. He now has to inspire a team who frankly don't trust him.

29 Nov 2025 17:38:59
Monstersouness he's lost 9 out of the last 12. I don't care what phone you have that calls for sacking.

29 Nov 2025 17:50:54
Knee jerk reactions towards slot? Have you witnessed the absolute rubbish performances we've had since winning league. Don't think it would matter if we signed the best players in the world, he'd just destroy their confidence straight away. Well out of his depth. Won the league last year playing klopps players and style. Credit where credit is due he did swap things early on in games when it wasn't working to great effect.

Captain chaos and jota saved his bacon several times. Which manager changes a title winning sides set up, just to create his own legacy and sets in motion the destruction of such a successful style. Not for me sorry. And from day 1 I said his time will come this season, however the players brought in, I could see a build of a great team but he's destroyed all that with his slow boring no press team. Get him out.

29 Nov 2025 20:37:25
Rome1977. We will see exactly how long he is backed. Start seeing LFC as a multi billion dollar business and not as a faith-powered passion project, and you may find out very soon that Slot is not really being backed at all.

29 Nov 2025 21:17:30
I'm not blind as to know we can't keep on losing, and after Wednesday I'd shifted towards a change. All I'm saying is, it's mid season and I don't believe our hierarchy are trigger happy. All this tosh about appointing Gerrard as an interim, which has been said on here, just isn't going to happen. There is no obvious solution at this moment to our plight.

29 Nov 2025 23:06:07
There's one glaringly simple solution. Sack Slot. Appoint Iraola.

30 Nov 2025 09:04:22
we weren't left behind for years because of something to do with not sacking managers early.

we were left behind because we got caught on our heels as football commercialized and then we just didn't plan ahead very well. There is way more nuance to that obviously lol but this isn't the same as back then.

back to the OP. what are we waiting for? I think that assumes the end goal is to win something next year.

If the end goal is more along the lines of winning lots of things over the next 5-6 years, then perhaps what happens this year is of less importance to the big picture. Need to be heading in a direction tho and I guess for many fans that doesn't seem clear what the direciton is.

29 Nov 2025 15:10:22
Reading on these posts about a relegation fight coming if we don’t start to get things moving in the right direction .
I’ve said myself that I’ve a feeling if issues aren’t addressed things could get a bit squeaky bum time and I’m also old enough to see Utd go down when although they weren’t a great side in 74 they certainly weren’t a relegation quality team - the same of spurs in 77 when they definitely weren’t a relagation quality team!
A few more losses in the next 7 when we said after the madrid game we could possibly pick up a lot of points up until Xmas will put us in a relegation scrap!
Once the malaise starts to go through a club it’s difficult to turn it around.

29 Nov 2025 15:24:48
We have no idea what's going on behind the scenes. If carra is right which he has been before then Slot is as good as gone as soon as a replacement is sorted

Fingers crossed we see a reaction Sunday and 3 points.

29 Nov 2025 17:10:12
Let’s all chant YNWA and then bury our heads in the sand. In Slot we trust!

29 Nov 2025 17:24:02
If it's true that Slot has his marching orders no matter what happens tomorrow, then it shows just how little faith the club have in his coaching staff. I don't remember a manager still in the job knowing he's getting the tin tack.

30 Nov 2025 09:05:06
Imagine Slot being as good as gone as soon as a replacement is sorted. That scenario would end the season sooner than just backing Slot to the end of the season.

29 Nov 2025 14:27:34
Interesting discussion points lately, a repeating topic seems to be that there are very few great managers out there.
My question is was Slot a great manager when we signed him? From memory only ED002 seemed to know who he was, he had no premier league experience, didn't deal with superstars, had no success in top European competition.

Yet managers like Iraola are being knocked for not having some of these attributes.

29 Nov 2025 15:29:06
I think the difference is the expectation, when Slot came in i don't think anyone thought we would do what we did last season whereas Ireaola is been painted in some posts as the guy to steer the ship back to the top without any history yet of winning anything.


I do think he is a top manager, he comes across well gets the best out of his players and Bournemouth are always good to watch.

29 Nov 2025 16:11:45
All about agendas Mcgov.
Short memories and all of that. it's just about moaning for the sake of moaning

Whats the definition of a great manager anyway?

Is winning domestic leagues enough? Does the manager have to had win a European competition?
Must the manager have won multiple titles in multiple leagues?

Mourinho has won it all. is he still a great manager? Would we be happy with him right now?

What might actually be the deciding factor. is the style of man management at the end of the day.
A manager who can get the best out of a collective of players, with varying "star status", and get the best out of individuals at the same time, is probably the most highly sought after manager in the modern game.

29 Nov 2025 17:22:27
It’s a very different situation. Klopp retired, and Slot was headhunted to replace him. This time, fans are calling for a title winning manager to be replaced mid-season - and I don’t see a perfect replacement out there.
It’s a huge risk; it means ripping up all our plans, and potentially bringing in someone who has a 5 year transition plan.
Pep had a worse run last season, but eventually dug in.
When bad runs like this happen, it’s all about trying to seize back the initiative, but sometimes the downward momentum is impossible for the manager to turn around.


I really hope Slot can do it - but he needs Frimpong and Wirtz fit asap to start instead of Mo and Gakpo.
Sadly, there is little he can do about Konate - who I fear tends to coast when there is no competition for his place, and there are misgivings about Gomez’s fitness and rustiness.

29 Nov 2025 17:30:36
You’re right, there are precious few great managers out there.

Slot was a gamble
Iraola would be a gamble
Glasner would be a gamble.

No-one wanted Slot, most wanted Amorim once Alonso ruled us out, most assumed Amorim was already signed up and started analysing his teams and formation.

Slot worked out for 1 season. Maybe Iraola will, we don’t know.

29 Nov 2025 17:58:06
Ron, of the newcomers, some will elevate themselves to greatness, Alonso being one I believe, whilst others will just be middle of the road journeymen.

If I was a betting man, Id back Iraola to rise through the ranks and be in the Elite category one day.

29 Nov 2025 18:08:54
No one can tell how well being a decent coach in a farmers league will translate onto the big stage . Iraola has more Prem experience and has shown that his system and style lives on, even when a rake of his best players are sold.

Slot may make a good living as a mid-table manager in Germany or in a softer league but seems so so lost here and now.

29 Nov 2025 18:49:35
We all said the same about Amorim, the truth is - we know F-k all.

29 Nov 2025 13:52:32
I'm looking forward to tomorrow's fixtures whatever they may bring. There's going to be some focus on our game for sure! I was out for a few scoops yesterday evening. Our local is a Gunners hotbed! It was mighty craic taking the verbals but I suppose I'd be the very same myself if the shoe was on the other foot! But they're concerned about heading to The Bridge tomorrow.

It'll be a right match!

29 Nov 2025 15:40:20
Fancy the gunners for this Shanks, best team in the league by far mate.

29 Nov 2025 15:43:51
Shankly I've had that many giving me stick and asking me what's gone wrong with us I felt last week I was the bloody manger!

29 Nov 2025 17:00:02
You could throw your hat in the ring Digger! 💥.

29 Nov 2025 17:04:24
My only remaining hope for this season is that Arsenal find a way to screw it up. I don’t want Arteta winning a damn thing he’s a such a hateful guy.

30 Nov 2025 11:02:50
Well Wassa I'm not a fan of MA either but it should be their year. It won't be ours anyway! If he doesn't do it this year with all at his disposal and the erratic nature of his nearest rivals then he never will.

I think I may just have to put up with my Gooners mates crowing for a bit! They're the best team in the PL this season. so far.

29 Nov 2025 13:49:45
Just a weird one .
Do the players have any idea of what's going on or even . (potentially)

So if they knew that defeat tomorrow would mean curtains for Slot . will they just roll over pretty much as thay have done.

I am dreading Sunderland and even Leeds. would dread even playing wolves at the moment .

I see king Kenny has been touted for taking the reins . surely he would be as a background? He would need someone to front up for all the media work he was short n sweet last time he was in charge. before Brenda . can't imagine he has gone on too many media training days in the last 15 years!

29 Nov 2025 17:31:57
I HATE the idea of Kenny taking over.

Leave the legend alone, he’s given enough.

29 Nov 2025 17:59:15
💯 Ron.

29 Nov 2025 13:03:40
So a question to ask for anyone to answer. When signing Wirtz it was said he chose us due to the project Slot had planned and how it would include Wirtz as a major part of it. What was this project? Is this dire football we’ve been watching the project?

29 Nov 2025 13:09:28
I still have high high hopes for Wirtz and I'm sure he'll give any new manager his full commitment.

29 Nov 2025 13:33:33
Correct Davey, the guy is top class 👌.

29 Nov 2025 13:35:19
Isak and Wirtz have been bought for the long-term to replace Salah's superhuman G/ A.

The forward line permutations wouldn't be talking points had we balanced the summer out with some defensive minded players.

The foundation is missing!

29 Nov 2025 13:45:27
We have been worse wothout him.

29 Nov 2025 13:56:41
To be fair, the same problems that apparently slot can't see might not have registered with a young German who's never played in England. Perhaps the idea was great on paper to him but he failed to take into account the fitness requirements and the need for some physicality in the EPL.

I'm fully convinced Wirtz will be a star for us for years to come, I'm not fully convinced that will be under slot.

29 Nov 2025 13:58:17
I agree Fly, the 'plan' was life without Salah. The problem is Salah is still here in the short term and the balance is completely off, but hasn't allowed any of it the chance to gel. And Slot wasn't able, or willing to stick our highest earner on the bench.

I'd imagine the plan is building the team around Wirtz long term, I'm just hoping this period of awful tactics isn't putting a spanner in that and maybe allowing Wirtz to question if Liverpool is the place for him.

29 Nov 2025 14:51:51
People are very quick to forget the quality of players we have. I'm still delighted with how the summer went - sure we needed a CB but I'm very happy with the players we got, we'll soon see them shine but Slot has to go first.

29 Nov 2025 14:57:12
I think slot told him about his future plans for visiting ibiza.

29 Nov 2025 15:00:20
For me Wirtz will only be top class when he proves it at Liverpool and you can add Isak to that as well. It means nothing to me that they’ve done quite well at lesser clubs. They have both proved nothing yet.

29 Nov 2025 15:20:05
Like Ranieri, the stars aligned for Slot, never to repeat.

A great coach will find a way to make all of our world class attackers work - a defender should be bamboozled on which to mark.

Iraola would improve movement, systems and interplay in a short while IMO.

Slot will go down as a pub quiz question following an anomalous season, in my opinion.

29 Nov 2025 18:34:48
Johnny Bellwhiff I brought up how will any manager find space for all the attackers the moment we signed them. When I seen the first few pre season games it was an obvious problem. All running into the same spaces. Trying to include everyone in perfect quick passing moves.

No structure in the format. I said it on here. Everybody was just soooo excited with the signings. The Isak saga and so on. I'm totally convinced letting Diaz go and loosing Jota have had a massive effect.

29 Nov 2025 18:56:21
Fully agree salah. Best window I've ever seen by us, showed real intent to keep on top. who could of guessed slot was going to ruin it all. We just need an attack minded manager to get the joy back for me. And keep grav back.

30 Nov 2025 09:07:26
Just saying, but all this will look pretty stupid when it all clicks.
I appreciate that doesn't look likely but at the same time, this is what the project is about.
you still have to work through the journey to get towards the end goal.
No one said it'll just be an easy walk to the end.

29 Nov 2025 10:58:21{Ed's Note - MK Scouser has posted a new article entitled, Liverpool's Collapse Under Slot Can't Be Brushed Aside

29 Nov 2025 11:18:14
I agree with that mk but the thing with slot is he's set on the same formation and tactics that are clearly not working and the fact with the low intensity training, every other team looks miles fitter than us, then I don't think the players look like they want to play for him anymore.

29 Nov 2025 11:51:12
I actually thought the Newcastle game was our worst performance by far (even though we somehow won ) we got absolutely battered the whole game n they had 10 men for a large part of it.

29 Nov 2025 13:02:48
Fair and reasonable points made.

29 Nov 2025 13:44:24
Is it underlying fitness levels or is it their belief, hunger, aggression and focus? Really difficult to tell given how bad they all are.

Didn't Graeme Souness famously call Wenger's later sides a team of son-in-laws?

29 Nov 2025 14:19:33
Strom, that’s the other issue. Aside from the defeats, a lot of our wins haven’t even been convincing.

We’ve actually conceded more goals in all competitions than any other Premier League side (34 conceded) . It’s truly abysmal.

Thanks Eds for posting.

29 Nov 2025 15:32:25
You're right there MK . this season has been abysmal. down to the both the management, who decided this is how we're going to play n doesn't seem to realise that its not working at all, the players have to take responsibility aswel, they must know they're not playing well n are hiding in games except Slob.

29 Nov 2025 15:52:46
We’ve been terrible most games. The Real one aside, first half Athletico and first half Everton I thought we went after them and played well. Every other game we were abysmal. Newcastle was bad but Galatasaray was the nail in the coffin with Slot for me. They are a very poor side and we made them look fantastic.

29 Nov 2025 00:35:27


funky061 has written an article entitled, Pressure Builds For Arne Slot At Liverpool FC

29 Nov 2025 01:25:08
This is the most charitable way of looking at it really, and fair play you want to give Slot benefit of the doubt. I would not agree with everything you’ve said, namely that we won the league “in style” - I thought we were pretty mediocre from last January but just ground out results - and that we’ve been unlucky this season. We have played abysmally this season, bar maybe 2-3 games? It is not good enough, and not merely a “luck” issue.

There are very simple things that he is getting wrong, so simple that it raises serious questions over his ability to perform. Why does the team look leggy and devoid of fitness? If nothing else they should be able to be relentless none stop for 90 minutes - they struggle to do so for longer than 5 minutes. Ekitike has looked far, far more impactful than Isak, yet Isak starts every game, why? This doesn’t make any sense, and is such a glaringly obvious thing to see. I think the writing is on the wall to be honest, we are in relegation form and look bereft of confidence and cohesion, and Slot has seemingly lost the ability to make meaningful tactical changes in games.

29 Nov 2025 08:32:48
Isak doesn't start every game.

29 Nov 2025 09:41:01
Isak has been awful no denying that but whilst Ekitike did hit the ground running he’s got something like 1 goal in his last 9 appearances for us.

He’s easily been our best signing so far but for me he’s just been the best of a bad bunch.

However we know that bad bunch could be an excellent bunch. They just haven’t been.

{Ed001's Note - to be fair, he was going well until he was dumped for Isak.}

29 Nov 2025 11:38:08
The way we are just sticking isak out there to feed on scraps is kind of criminal if you ask me, at Newcastle he was always involved in the play and had two wide players in Gordon and Murphy who would feed him whenever they could.

Now i appreciate that we have three goalscorers on the field with mo and cody who are the precise opposite of touchline hugging crossing wingers, and I also understand that isak won't have as much of the ball as he did at Newcastle and has to do more with less, but playing him in this fashion is like having 10 players on the field on or off the ball. We can't have two wingers whose only thought is to go for goal themselves every chance they get when we have one of the best 9s in the world, it just isn't going to work even after isak gets match fit finally.

I thought the plan was for our attackers to rotate and confuse the opposition, not have our 9 be a ghost on the field and for our wingers to be the solitary source of goals every game (and goals they have to create themselves by isolating their fullback) .

One of the saddest things about the forest game was isak coming off and looking sheepish and almost glad to have come off the field. I do think he has to show more than he has done but to be fair a lot of the time he doesn't even look like he features in the game plan beforehand.

29 Nov 2025 11:53:36
Yeah. More over he looks like trying to do everything and shooting from improbable angles last few games while keeping head down.

He was not doing that in the initial games when he got his goals.

When we were linked with him earlier, watched his videos where this negative trait was clearly captured. Hope he looks up more and passes when in tight space / angles.

29 Nov 2025 11:55:21
Thing with Ekitike is, he was flying 6 goals in as many games until this year's version of Slot stepped in n took our in form striker out the team n played a half fit Isak, Ekitike confidence hit the floor like the rest of our team. some shocking decisions this year by Slot but that's the worst one.

29 Nov 2025 11:59:55
Ed001 that’s true. I think isaks first start was a much changed league cup game that Ekitike got sent off in so Isak had to start next league game.

29 Nov 2025 12:11:13
Strom, Ekitike could possibly have taken that gesture you described as an F u, add the red card and the way Slot went for him publicly possibly added to the F u.

Slot imo should have told the press, If there’s anything to be said, it will be in house.

Slot could have been hitting home the expected standards at LFC, yet I think this is possibly where the dressing room has been lost to a degree, the public hanging of a new player.

29 Nov 2025 15:37:36
Kew 17 . I agree Ekitike most prob thought what's the point, getting dropped for an unfit player . last year he dropped Quansah after the 1st game n everybody thought wow this is a man who takes no nonsense, then this year he has left Salah on most games, played Macallister who has been woeful but his biggest F up has been playing a player who won't even sign a contract but playing the worst football he's ever played n still picking him.

29 Nov 2025 15:45:11
But Slot has always been like that, even during our winning ways last year. Being asked about Endo's good game, and Slot would answer with something like "yes but (so and so) was equally good if not better". He even admitted he should have used Endo more, and we see how that has happened this year. And he's clearly hung Ekitike out to dry, for all to see.

This is a key difference with Klopp. Klopp would go to war for his players, even when they were wrong. That's how he earned respect and loyalty from them. This dude has no clue.

29 Nov 2025 17:29:19
Slot isn't a prem league manager, just another ten haag or amor in. . If he'd of changed us straight away we wouldn't of won the league. We won the league with the players playing how they was for years under klopp.

Still slot was picking wrong teams at times and getting lucky making changes at half time. Very poor selection of manager for me from day 1. His severe lack of man management is the undoing.

29 Nov 2025 18:13:24
PatrikBurgher - And yet to defend Slot and seem sure that he will go on to be a great, elite level manager. Who is to blame for the current predicament?

30 Nov 2025 09:09:28
ed1 - yeah it was random, i can't recall which game, but Isak made his first start and it felt rushed. He didn't look fit and just looked out of place.
Ekitike hasn't quite hit the heights of the games before that moment. and also let's not forget the second yellow he picked up when removing his top to show off his name.

I don't care about the ego, but was more interested in what it potentially revealed about his mentality since Isak came in and then suddenly got pushed ahead of him to start.
Hope he gets back to his best soon.