Liverpool banter 2

06 Dec 2025 23:01:27
It seems pretty obvious that Salah was given assurances before signing his contract and now feels betrayed. Do you think it was always in the plan to get him to resign a contract so that we can sell him for a fee? I’m backing Mo in this 100%, dropping him for 3 games is a statement from Slot and one that lays blame at Salahs door and although Salah hasn’t been great and should never be guaranteed a start he is miles ahead of other players.

Salah was POTY last season it’s slots fault with his stupid tactical tweaks that Salah isint firing the same in the exact same way that Isak didn’t suddenly just become a donkey, Wirtz a liability and Kerkez a mess. Bad tactics make for bad playing performances, not absolving players of all liability but if tactics are shocking then there going to look bad.

06 Dec 2025 23:28:32
There's no guarantee of a massive fee for Salah, with the Saudis being the only suitor and him being 33. I think if the club wanted rid they'd have just not extended him. We've paid him about 20 weeks wages since the end of June when the last contract expired.

That's what? £8m at least.

06 Dec 2025 23:30:27
Given assurances of what? He has been made to be the scapegoat but he deserved to be dropped the problem is so many others also did yet only Salah was.

Would be bizarre to assure him he’d start every game.

06 Dec 2025 23:49:25
Assurances like what? that you can't be dropped (the way any other player can) no matter how poor you play? i think people are letting their hate for Slot effect their judgement. Even Mo deep down would know he hasn't performed this season and its not all down to tactics.

07 Dec 2025 01:35:15
Not in no way defending AS tactics as they are making us an embarrassment, but how exactly are the tactics stopping Mo from having the ability to make a 5 yard pass? he has been very poor this season and will not get any better as he always comes back from AFCON in poorform for a month or so.

I personally think he should have kept his mouth shut as he only seems to speak when its for himself never for the team. He has been a legend for us over the years, but if that is the only qualification needed to guarantee game time then rushie n king kenny can start lacing up their boots too.

07 Dec 2025 01:37:46
Also, the other players who have been having complete mares to brain fart Konate don't have as many back up options, could you see the fan base putting up with VVD being replaced by one of the under 21 like Lucky, this forum would explode.

06 Dec 2025 23:00:17
All not right behind the scenes, so sad after last season. Feel Isak debacle has caused unrest for one, apart from the loss of DJ. The togetherness doesn’t seem there at present, they’re getting through games but I’m seeing few smiles.

06 Dec 2025 23:00:02
Gross. Re-signing for a Jan transfer. Gross. Mo’s comments. Gross. Slot’s tactics. Gross. Konate playing like peak David Luis.

Pascal fooking Gross.

06 Dec 2025 23:29:09
Christian Gross in?

07 Dec 2025 00:50:48
The gross is always greener on the other side.

06 Dec 2025 22:53:04
Amazing numbers and has been absolutely vital to us for years BUT Salah has ALWAYS been selfish and all about himself.
This outburst proves it without a doubt.
He has been terrible this season and should have been dropped earlier. Obviously he is not the only one. I Can't believe Mac Allister has had as many chances as he has.

You can add Gakpo to that as well.
Konate and Van Dijk would also have surely been dropped if we had any fit centre halves.
Salah knows exactly what he is doing with the media and has done it on previous occasions.
The manager and a number of these players are leaving our club and supporters down!

06 Dec 2025 22:41:01
Long time reader but never felt so confused. I am pretty calm normally but what is going on with our club? 40+ years and can't remember it being like this - we have (somee) great players but the chemistry is completely wrong.

Please for the love of God drop Konate!
I reckon both Slot and Salah will be gone by end of Jan.
Even an interim manager could do better with this sh**show. Then sort in the summer with the right candidate.
Ridiculous thing is we are not that far off top 5 which is realistically the best we can hope for.

I am just waiting for Carra to post for some sense.

06 Dec 2025 23:04:56
Great player, but a twit: always puts himself ahead of the team. All of those interviews over last two years: initially anti Klopp, then begging for a new contract.
He poisoned Klopp’s final season, and is doing the same now. I know Mane was complicated, but maybe he was right about Mo? Without doubt, the hardest of our legends to like.

06 Dec 2025 22:37:29
After mo's comments somethings got to give, the silence from the club can't remain. As fans we are at our wits end with the results. My take on mo's comments is his as confused with this seasons tactics as the fans. And i wouldn't think his the only player at the club with this issue. My take is slots gone.

06 Dec 2025 23:54:35
Ngumoha's goal, Dom's goal today, two beautiful pieces of play that have been all too rare this season. We can bang on about tactics allday and im not saying their perfect but the major fact this season is that the players just havnt been good enough during this horrible spell.

Leeds's 3 goals today could all have been avoided if certain players did the basics better. And that's been the story of our season, not tactics.

07 Dec 2025 00:53:17
Finglas, He's lost more than Salah in that dressing room. This only ends one way.

06 Dec 2025 22:31:43
Salah is right to speak, something he’s said maybe should have been reworded but I have no issue with a player speaking up.

06 Dec 2025 22:59:08
He’s right to voice concerns about the direction the club is going but he didn’t do that did he?

He spoke to preserve his own reputation whilst knowing it would cause a media storm around himself which would make our current predicament worse.

He’s a legend for this club but that was completely out of order.

06 Dec 2025 23:40:15
Speaking out does not help.

Salah spoke out about Klopp
Salah spoke out about his contract.

He needs to stop.

06 Dec 2025 22:31:38
Here’s my take on the whole salah situation. Personally, I don’t think he should be doing this so publicly, however, I can see why he isn’t happy. He definitely isn’t the only one under-performing but he’s the only one taken out of the team.
Konate has been by far the worst player this season and yet he’s played every minute. Gakpo starts without fail despite the fact he’s one of the most one dimensional players I’ve ever seen, just constantly cuts in on his right foot.
Macallister has been so sluggish and off the mark all season, yet he starts most games.
I think tonight is a clear indication that slot has lost the dressing room and I don’t see any way back now.

Ed001, what do you think is more likely? That salah has played his last game for the club? That slot will be gone before he returns from AFCON? Or both?

{Ed001's Note - I think both is looking likely right now. Slot is unlikely to survive while serving up this crap and Hughes would like to move Salah on.}

06 Dec 2025 21:41:22
Klopp was brilliant at man management and keeping players happy. Slot is nothing like that. The best thing to do is sack Slot and sell Salah to Saudi for good money and get a capable winger to replace him.

06 Dec 2025 22:47:49
Salah has just made Slot’s position safer. All the heat will now be on Salah and if he’ll be sold in January. Hughes will know this year is a transition year with Salah going and new players brought in needing time to gel and with more changes to come.

The dressing room will be completely different next pre season with Klopps players mostly gone and Slot’s players in. Slot pretty much has a free ride now this season.

06 Dec 2025 22:58:57
Konate hasn't been dropped because (A) we've had no other fit CB's half the time and because (b) Gomez is even worse. In Salah's position we at least had other things we could try.

06 Dec 2025 23:13:01
You might think Konate is a better player that Gomez and that is fine. But you seriously cannot say Gomez could play any worse than Konate is currently playing. His form is absolutely diabolical.

06 Dec 2025 23:56:49
Oh he could JK, i've seen Gomez have mares. And now he seems to have lost his pace which was his get out of jail card.

06 Dec 2025 22:00:17
I’m a grassroots coach who’s coached the teams of my 3 sons for the last 15 years.

I’m not saying I’m an expert but this is kind of my point.

Two issues with Slot’s tactics stand out for me. We’re so slow in the build up that by the time we get bodies forward if we lose it if the oppo counters quickly and bravely we can face overload situations. By simply moving the ball forward quicker we may not be so susceptible to these counters.

When facing low blocks surely it’s better to play with a left footer on the left and right footer on the right to get in behind and cut the ball back. Inverted wingers just run into traffic when faced with the low block.

06 Dec 2025 22:44:55
Wingers like Salah and Gakpo like to cut inside onto their stronger foot. Full backs are typically left footed on the left and right footed on the right are they not? Exceptions of course like John Barnes to name one.

Luis Enrique last season I believe said we were the best team in Europe on the transition. Slot has coached that out of us this season which doesn't play to the strengths of Salah, Wirtz and our two strikers.

06 Dec 2025 22:11:01
I remember coming on after the West Ham game saying myself and am sure others wasn’t convinced, as we got the 3 Pts but it was West Ham and we still looked average.

I can't believe we still somehow tossed away a 2-0 lead to Leeds? Albeit it wasn’t going to be plain sailing and i get Konate is an absolute dope, but i just can't understand it.

As i said a couple of weeks back, we are really in a position where a couple of more bad results and top 4 becomes a big uphill battle. At the minute we are somehow in touching distance, but they need to act now with Slot, that is that for me.

5 pts out of them 9 is horrible.

On top of that, I criticised Mo being abit off it at the start of the season and he has had bad performances at times. However, the manager’s decision not picking him has been bizzare. Even today why did we set up to hold out the lead at 2-0 and completely neutralise our attack? It would have been perfect to change the midfield very slightly and rotate the forwards.


A lot of people are blaming Konate and so they should for that first goal but the managers decision did not help at all. So deflating even watching us at the moment, you would some extent rather them not play, as you have that glimmer of slight hope and it’s all knocked away quickly.


Ed01 penny for your thoughts mate on everything really the Salah interview? Slot? And where do we even go from here in your opinion, if you can of course.

{Ed001's Note - I think the club is falling apart under Slot right now and it is time to change while top 4 is still a realistic prospect.}

06 Dec 2025 22:31:29
Totally agree with you ed. Spot on.

06 Dec 2025 22:33:52
I would love to see us play w Ekitike and Isak up top. Don't care as a 2 or a 3 but seems madness that we spent 200m on two players and only 1 plays at a time.

I think if we had 10 subs Gakpo would come off 9th or 10th w maybe only Virgil keeping his spot. If Salah is a problem with his form, I raise u Gakpo Macca KONATE. If Slot wants to play only in form players we'd have only Dom and Ali on the pitch.

06 Dec 2025 22:39:02
Can't believe how farcical we've become this year. Surely the people in charge can't allow this to go on any longer.

06 Dec 2025 23:00:00
Sombre abd sobering comment Ed01 think we all agree.

06 Dec 2025 23:01:04
Ed001 genuine question, did you think Slot was a good coach when he came in last year?

{Ed001's Note - I had no idea, and I was very clear that I didn't know enough about him.}

06 Dec 2025 23:03:01
Why is it madness? we needed two and went for the two that in the clubs opinion were the best two we could get. What happened to"its not our money"?

07 Dec 2025 00:02:56
Ok ed, was genuinely curious. My stance is i knew zero of him. Bloke came in was a breath of fresh air and delivered No.20.Stance this year is a sense of shock, like most fans. But i do think peoples hatred of Slot is pointing them towards slating tactics (which im not saying are perfect) and man management while i just think the players have not been good enough.

You can't put the amount of basic, huge errors and poor execution of basic skills all down to tactics in my opinion.

{Ed001's Note - yes you can, they put pressure on the players in dangerous areas. This is all on Slot.}

06 Dec 2025 22:10:28
We stumbled our way into a 2-0 lead. I had zero confidence in us seeing that out. Can’t believe what is being served up. Zero movement, awful press, no idea how to break on the odd occasion we win it high up. It’s just baffling.

06 Dec 2025 23:04:47
I thought it was a classic away performance with two well taken clinical strikes. were in total control until Konate.

06 Dec 2025 22:09:16
Ed 001 may I ask please. It has been said the board want to give Slot as much time as possible, as he was a Hughes pick he wants to see him succeed. But where would you say the end of that thought process happens.

Surely it is seen by Hughes and the other decision makers that things are in a dreadful state as regards to performance on the pitch. They must see the players are starting to get really unhappy. But this doesn't seem to make them act .

Will a new way of thinking begin once there is a real possiblity that the team won't make top 4 and are eliminated from the CL this season? So basically a financial catastrophe as regards to no CL next season. And if so would continued participation in the CL this season be enough to keep Slot safe? Surely if that's the case there is a real chance we could get knocked out in the latter stages of the CL and by that time be to far off top 4 to challenge for those spots. Surely that's not a risk the board are willing to take?

{Ed001's Note - it is impossible to say, because performances are just as important as the actual results. The fact that there has been some signs of improvement could well keep him safe for now. There have been problems with the players for a while, so they have backed him over the players initially - though it can't continue for too long. I would expect that Hughes will get him out if the fans turn on him in his role as sporting director. That is usually what sees a manager go - directors do not like to feel the heat.}

06 Dec 2025 23:01:12
Problem with the players before? I assume you're talking about this season ed001? What with Virgil calling an emergency meeting and if I had to gather problems before it would be him banishing Quansah to the shadow realm along with Harvey and Chiesa.

I felt last season the reason why we struggled towards the end was his lack of use of squad players so when they came in they look out of sorts as they spent months twiddling their thumbs watching on the sidelines.

06 Dec 2025 23:08:53
Thats the shame about earlier,7 points from 3 games in a week for a team that had been struggling so badly would have been a real turnaround. Up until konates idiocy it looked like only 1 goal conceded in 3 games too. We even would have been in the champs Lge positions. that's the real shame of today not Mo's tantrum.