Liverpool Discussions

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.

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.

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.

22 Apr 2026 03:18:31
There are a lot of articles saying that Slot will remain as Liverpool's Head Coach next season, and if you think about why these reports keep coming out, it could be that Alonso turned down Liverpool or that the negotiations didn't go well.

22 Apr 2026 14:24:54
RTP.

21 Apr 2026 22:18:31
Two wins and we get Champions League. Don't see others below winning all their games.

22 Apr 2026 11:12:24
I was thinking the same whilst trying to figure out who our most likely challengers for 5th spot would be. As it stands I'm thinking Bournemouth.

To be safe, win our 3 remaining home games and then I believe CL is guaranteed.

It's scarily tight back there. If everybody wins their games in hand Chelsea could drop to 13th (admittedly only if Fulham won 12-0)!

22 Apr 2026 13:17:18
Brighton worry me the most at the moment, they're in great form with 4 wins from 5 and we've already played them twice. With Newcastle, Wolves and Villa coming up I don't see why they can't get 9 points from their next 3. They have United for their final game so add blasphemy to your list of sins.

Bournemouth, similarly, only have one really tough game on paper, their 2nd last against City, but they haven't been in the best of form. I think Fulham, Palace or even Leeds could take points off them.

Brentford have drawn their last 5 and still have to play Utd, City and Us. They haven't a chance.

Chelsea have Rosenior.

22 Apr 2026 18:47:28
Given the number of clubs that CAN reach 61 points - Everton, Bournemouth, Brentford, Sunderland and Brighton - we need 3 wins.

But we should be getting 5 wins and pushing for 3rd/4th.

23 Apr 2026 00:49:54
2 wins and 2 draws will do it, none of them bar Brighton are capable of going on an unbeaten run Zed.

21 Apr 2026 20:02:53
Thanks the fields.

Re Diomande and Barcola, could we possibly get both? We need a LW and RW so surely we won’t just target one right?

21 Apr 2026 23:24:02
Both will be very expensive. It will be Diomande and another cheaper option.

22 Apr 2026 07:33:05
Fofana

22 Apr 2026 11:12:57
I'd happily take Diomande and Fofana.

22 Apr 2026 12:45:43
It will be either not both unless Gakpo is shown the door

21 Apr 2026 16:56:25
I know we've got no chance of getting him n he moving abroad at the end of the season but Man City's Bernardo Silva is some player, I'd love him in our team, he ran the game against Arsenal the other day, workhorse as well as being a dirty lil basket, 31 still got a good few years left in him.

{Ed025's Note - hes excellent Strom, but he has a bit of history with Liverpool so i just cant see it mate..

21 Apr 2026 17:59:33
You must be forgetting his history with us Strom. A thoroughly dislikable human being

21 Apr 2026 18:41:56
Ed025 n COTG.i know he has history with us, i was just looking at him as a footballer, and that man can play football n has that added extra of wanting to win, he was the always the one who I thought if he played well against us then Citeh would win

{Ed025's Note - yeah Strom its always nice to have a little nark in you side mate, your midfield is a bit too nice..

21 Apr 2026 18:56:45
Brilliant footballer, I've no problem with him disrespecting us turning his back. I loved it when shelvey called fergie for everything when he got sent off. Love your own team fook the rest.

21 Apr 2026 19:36:50
Ed025 we've got a nark, Macallister is a toughie haha

{Ed025's Note - aint he just Strom.. :)

21 Apr 2026 20:09:16
Never in a million years I'd want silva at Liverpool he's a 1st class rat

21 Apr 2026 20:20:41
I'm amazed that any fan of LFC would want one of the ring leaders of that sickening mock song of Sean Cox. He's complete filth of a person.

21 Apr 2026 22:46:15
COTG.I am talking about the footballer not the person.what bit aren't you getting

22 Apr 2026 01:05:43
It's a bit hard to separate the footballer from the person mate, especially when you say that you'd love him to be in our team

22 Apr 2026 15:55:00
Stromsgodset the footballer is the same person i would rather he never comes any where near Liverpool football club

22 Apr 2026 17:52:17
Strom. You've had a mare with this post mate. Why not just bow out instead of defending your position? What he did is f@c king disgusting and should not be involved in any "I wish he could play for our team" convos.

How are you not getting that?

22 Apr 2026 19:54:31
I'm with changingofthegvardiol here. Him and that rat Sterling were two of the ring leaders of that song. Unforgivable that.

22 Apr 2026 23:28:38
Well it was all conjecture anyways.he isn't coming n we don't want him.but he is still a great player,