Liverpool rumours 2

27 Apr 2024 11:40:01
Hi, I see some people mention Ed002 opinion on Slot and I have searched but cannot find anything. Just wondered what the Eds thought about the appointment?

I am quite excited to see the new era start, I have loved the Klopp reign, but he does look like he is ready to leave.

{Ed002's Note - I said he would have been my pick and he is a very good coach and good guy. It should work out well.}

27 Apr 2024 11:56:36
If he’s good enough for ed2 he’s good enough for me.

27 Apr 2024 12:02:02
The only worry I have is this league is unforgiving the spot light and pressure if he doesn't start well will be intense, everyone outside of liverpool will be looking for anything negative to throw at him and in reality he will need time to adjust.

27 Apr 2024 11:48:00
Ok brilliant thanks for answering Ed002, much appreciated. Hope you are well.

{Ed002's Note - You are welcome.}

27 Apr 2024 12:10:30
I think the management know what they are doing in selecting slot. Managers get paid well to put up with the pressure I’m sure he will be fine. We have an excellent squad who need new ideas, I think people will be in for a surprise at what slot brings.

27 Apr 2024 12:28:24
The good thing is that Slot will have time over the summer to bed in and get his ideas. He’ll also have time as well.

27 Apr 2024 12:56:41
He needs players and I’m not sure fsg will provide what he needs.

27 Apr 2024 16:16:26
he should get money = we had over £100m for Caicedo and Lavia and we will save wages from the constantly injured players like Matip and Thiago and selling the prima donna.

{Ed002's Note - You need to stay away from the money.}

27 Apr 2024 17:52:15
Ed002-

On what do you base your preference for Slot?

What evidence do you have that he is a good guy and coach?

{Ed002's Note - I have met him and found him affable and he has done well coaching.}

27 Apr 2024 18:31:00
I don’t understand where the ideas around our budgets are coming from.
We pay huge wages to Salah, Alisson, Virgil.
Macca and Darwin are probably on a lot.

Talk of £100m burning a hole in FSG’s pocket seems weird to me.

27 Apr 2024 17:03:49
Either Ed1 or Ed2, do you think Slot will take us back to high intensity high press football or will we further morph into another Guardiola knock-off?

{Ed001's Note - probably a bit of both.}

27 Apr 2024 20:23:15
@Babbity

He likes to be high pressure when out of possession but with the ball he prefers to build play through midfield passing and generate chances via cut backs from the wings, based on what I saw the other day which was admittedly only 7 games.

This is just my view but it's a successful system but it is not much fun to warch, like guardiola there is little to no room for spontaneity and everything stems from drilling patterns of play into players.

He's far closer to pep than he is to klopp.

27 Apr 2024 23:10:32
@Ron, it’s the difference between, we can potentially fund a £ 100m signing versus we have £100 m funds to spend. People can either tell the difference or they can’t.

28 Apr 2024 08:47:46
A recommendation from Ed002 will do for me.

I hope he receives all the backing he needs - and stays true to how he wants his teams to play.

28 Apr 2024 09:10:09
Sorry if this has been addressed Ed002, but I was wondering if Slot will have an “input” on players?

I think you’ve said in the past that Fallows identifies players from a scouting perspective.

It’s clear in the past Klopp had a reasonable input into picking targets. Eg picking Nunez.

It seems Slot will not have as much of a say but considering he will have his own style of football he wants the squad to play, will he be able to give his views on which players in the squad are a good/ bad fit for his system?

{Ed002's Note - Slot's role, assuming it is the same as offered to and rejected by Amorim, will be as Head Coach and whilst he will be consulted over signings he will initially be presented with the list of tagets Fallows, Hunter and Klopp have settled on. You can expect some changes to the list, but it will remain largey what we know now. As you say, Nunez was very much a Klopp signing Keith and perhaps we will see the same with Slot. Certainly Slot will have an input.}

28 Apr 2024 10:36:38
An affable Dutch person!? We may have found the needle in the haystack! Promising
#sarcasm 🤣.

28 Apr 2024 15:19:39
I see the 'Ten Haag in disguise' have started and the well he never played in the premier league so he won't succeed.

I like how people are giving Slot a chance before judging.

Nobody knows how he's going to do.

28 Apr 2024 18:53:44
Name me a premier league winning manager who played in the premier league.

28 Apr 2024 19:23:10
@Ron Keague. my thoughts exactly.

27 Apr 2024 07:13:30
Ed2 do you see Barcelona making an offer for Diaz?

{Ed002's Note - Nothing has changed from what I previously said.}

26 Apr 2024 23:28:06
Eds do you have any further insight to Fabrizio Romano's claim that Nunez was wanted by Chelsea last summer and indeed that's a possible transfer this summer? We know Edwards wasn't/ isn't a fan of Nunez and that this was a Klopp purchase and not based on a data-driven option that Edwards goes for? TIA.

{Ed002's Note - I don't know what Romano has said but it is true that Nunez was purely a Klopp signing.}

26 Apr 2024 21:03:25
Good evening Ed’s,

Have Liverpool agreed a compensation fee with feyenoord for Arne Slot? Also do liverpool have interest in Summerville? Enjoy your weekend.

{Ed002's Note - Yes there is agreement for Slot. I am not aware of interest in CS from Liverpool.}

27 Apr 2024 08:52:05
Thank you.

27 Apr 2024 18:20:42
Hi Ed002, thanks for your information. Just wanted to check, does the agreement with Feyenoord include coaches that Slot wants to bring with him?

{Ed002's Note - No. that needs a separate resolution.#

26 Apr 2024 21:08:45
Rumours around today about Allison wanting to leave can any of the Ed's confirm this. I hope it's not true and don't think kelleher is the answer if he does go.

26 Apr 2024 21:31:19
Can’t see where he’d go to? All the top teams have a top class keeper.

26 Apr 2024 21:40:29
The Middle East Perhaps? I hope he is staying, nearly impossible to replace.

26 Apr 2024 21:41:58
I did mention a few months back per a conversation with some lads in the cafe he wanted to go to Munich.

26 Apr 2024 22:25:57
Manuel Neuer ain’t going anywhere Walter.

26 Apr 2024 22:35:11
Tbf nueur is 38, and Bayern may not have a better chance to replace him.

26 Apr 2024 23:23:50
1860 need a keeper.

27 Apr 2024 00:09:12
Welcome to the Colorado Rapids Allison!

27 Apr 2024 00:38:28
Hope not, best keeper in prem.

27 Apr 2024 01:23:18
If only Allison kept the goal as well as he keep his gold.

27 Apr 2024 02:58:22
He just bought a new house in Liverpool. didn't we just have this conversation?

27 Apr 2024 03:09:51
He's not going anywhere mate, rumours there just to cause a fuss, all media nonsense and clickbait bullsh*t. I hope.

27 Apr 2024 10:59:17
It's just people trying to push the narrative of a disaster scenario for Liverpool.

Allison, Salah, Nunez, Klopp, Diaz, everyone is leaving, including the This is Anfield sign and the Tea lady.

27 Apr 2024 23:18:19
@hsf, Klopp aside I think one or two others you mention might well leave too. It only becomes a problem if the players are replaced either from within or by buying. We sold / let go of Keita, Milner, Fabinho, Henderson and Firmino last summer and - events catching up with the squad after Klopp’s announcement notwithstanding - we are in a very strong position compared to 89 of the other 91 teams in the Football League. It’s not the losing players that’s the problem / worry, it’s ensuring that the replacements are fit for purpose.

28 Apr 2024 09:17:10
At least three of those are leaving HSF?
Klopp and Salah for certain.
And almost as certain that either Diaz or Nunez will go too.

26 Apr 2024 11:45:53
Heard Liverpool has reached an agreement on the Compensation fee with Feyenoord, apparently it's €12m, everything between Slot and Liverpool is agreed so I'd expect an announcement by the weekend.

26 Apr 2024 12:22:18
Hope so, speculative and pure click bait is annoying. Want to thank the 'EDS' for all their time, efforts, knowledge, wit, and sarcasm over the years i've been following.

26 Apr 2024 14:10:43
Is he available before the West Ham match. Ha.

26 Apr 2024 14:25:59
Heard they'll have to pay for Slot's two assistants too that will follow him. Around £13m.

26 Apr 2024 15:00:34
Why would you want him before the West Ham match?

26 Apr 2024 15:32:39
Hope he will SLOT right in!

26 Apr 2024 15:33:25
scouse john L8, because we are absolutely rubbish at the minute maybe?

26 Apr 2024 16:06:56
“ john L8, because we are absolutely rubbish at the minute maybe? ”

Sitting third with a trophy in the bag, three points off top with four games to go.

Whilst the performances have clearly dropped off and we are all gutted, maybe just think about what we consider“absolutely rubbish” now and compare it to what we would have said was “absolutely rubbish” 9 years ago.

As I said the football recently has been crap and I have seen more pulses in a morgue but looking at it objectively we’ve come so far.

26 Apr 2024 16:10:07
Going to face all the same fsg problems Klopp good luck to the poor bloke, he’ll be tired in a few years too.

26 Apr 2024 16:17:04
Scouse, I think Mark was having a laugh.

26 Apr 2024 16:22:14
Just one thing, probably showing inexperience, but I knocked Amorim for it so I think its only fair to knock Slot too. Can he not keep his gob shut until the current season ends?
I wouldn't be too happy to hear my manager, with games left in the season, to be talking about how happy he is to be going to another club.
Now, as I said, it's probably down to inexperience but I would think the top brass at LFC aren't too happy about it either.

ANYWAY, hopefully Slot moves smoothly (slots? ) into the position of LFC manager and uses the talents he will have at his disposal to have a very sucessful career at our club. Looking forward to it actually.

26 Apr 2024 17:08:06
Will he bring Bakayoko to replace Salah?

26 Apr 2024 17:12:45
I think Klopp's and Slot's statements to the press are to allow them to keep control of the narrative to some extent and curtail the worst of the speculation when things inevitably leak.

26 Apr 2024 17:49:03
The Ha at the end should give it away. But Klopp can’t motivate the players properly so a new voice is very much needed.

26 Apr 2024 18:38:48
Surprised me too PC. maybe putting pressure on his club to get it done.

26 Apr 2024 18:44:59
Do you not think a agreement with a manager secretly agreed before klopp devastating announcement would not of caused or eased the unrest which is clearly running through the club now? Or even a quicker decision on who we wanted? Still would of loved alonso, even amor in really excited me but slot is well respected and he's got feyernoord playing decent footy.

26 Apr 2024 19:37:17
I like the guy saying unambiguously that he's up for it. He's also not jeopardising his current team's future by coming out with it now. Feyenoord are pretty much guaranteed to come second in the Dutch Eredivisie. They're 9 points behind PSV with 3 matches to play and a negative goal difference of 30. Meanwhile, the third placed team are 12 points behind.

26 Apr 2024 19:43:22
Lets hope and prey we are not getting a ten hag.

26 Apr 2024 21:55:45
Ten Hag is terrible with the media and I can't imagine he's much more charismatic with his players. I know nothing of Slot and quite frankly I'd never heard of him until 02 mentioned his name. Trusting in what I'm reading and Ed's rubber stamp.

26 Apr 2024 21:56:21
@JLDA agree mate - the bloke is just being honest - he was asked a question and he answered it honestly, fair play to him.

26 Apr 2024 22:18:26
Damnded if you do and damnded if you don't.

26 Apr 2024 22:53:37
WDW3 - A lot of the stuff I've read on Slot stresses that honesty is one of his big features.

27 Apr 2024 02:42:06
Damn the man - what will we do without the tapping up rumours?

On a more serious note - as a Liverpool fan I’m happy that he is joining. He seems honest and capable from the little I have read and those qualities aren’t a bad start in my opinion.

25 Apr 2024 18:20:55
Hi Ed2

Was there an actual fallout between Edwards and klopp as reported in the media And was this why Edwards left initially?

{Ed002's Note - I am not aware of a "fallout" but as I have eplained before responsibilities were an issue.}

25 Apr 2024 22:00:07
I thought the "media report" was entirely speculation on the part of Jamie Carragher?

26 Apr 2024 15:11:53
Wouldn’t believe a word that comes out of Carraghers mouth it’s all basically Sly sports BS.
The fella blows whichever way the story/ gossip goes.

26 Apr 2024 16:17:57
Spot on, Klopp4pm. Carragher si the last person I would listen to.

26 Apr 2024 16:34:42
I'm not sure specifics were ever reported, but from the outside looking in there was a steady stream of departures of key people (Edwards, Graham, Ward) that coincided with Mike Gordon becoming less involved (FSG shifted his focus to other projects), Billy Hogan (a sales background) becoming more involved, and Billy Hogan being seemingly less capable of keeping Klopp from being a lot more involved in recruitment. Always got the impression it was a bad move to put a guy who enjoys pleasing people / getting yeses for a living in charge of Klopp, who needs a stern, strict boss like Gordon.

26 Apr 2024 17:14:48
Only things that come out of Carragher’s mouth is either embarrassing drivel or phlegm.

26 Apr 2024 17:59:09
To be absolutely fair to Carragher on this one he made it obvious he was making a supposition based purely on the timing of Edwards coming back. He didn't try to imply he had insider knowledge about a fallout between them.

27 Apr 2024 02:43:54
What’s the difference between ‘need to know’ and ‘I want to know’ @OP, what difference does it make? We are where we are.