21 Oct 2025 07:39:01
{Ed's Note - PatrikBurgher has posted a new article entitled, I'm Confident That Arne Slot Can Turn Liverpool FC Around
21 Oct 2025 08:58:20
Will he get the time though? Two bad results this week and the board that sanctioned a huge outlay on new players might not give him the time in an attempt to save their own skins.
21 Oct 2025 09:34:28
Endo - where have you ever got the sense that Liverpool operate that way?
21 Oct 2025 10:18:49
They sacked Rodgers earlier in the season than this and he'd lost just two games.
21 Oct 2025 10:30:43
Indeed, @Faith. Seriously, the projection is getting boring now. Slot ain't getting the sack anytime soon cos the club don't operate that way, like you said. As if that's going to fix anything right now esp. if you have no clue who can come in and replace him properly right now. Give it a rest.
21 Oct 2025 10:46:40
I don't want Slot to be sacked but to say the club don't act that way isn't exactly true with Rodgers getting sacked earlier in the season with only two losses.
21 Oct 2025 11:03:44
Yeah but the locker room was lost, he wasn’t exactly in sync with the board, the team had no identity, the team had no connection to the crowd, that was a team on the way down
This is a team trying to figure it out.
21 Oct 2025 11:07:26
Eveyone was praising our transfer business and giving over the top plaudits for getting Isak, Kerkez, Frimpong, Wirtz, Ekitike.
We have too many of the main man now and no support staff.
Added to that, the change of style with Grav having so much of the ball.
Isak was working for Newcastle because the other 10 working off their socks for him. It was very clear that a team cannot carry both Isak and Salah together.
Kerkez - I believe joined more to be with International captain Szoboszlai (playing with him) and the thrill of joining the champions
Has done nothing to prove he is better than washed Robertson. That says a lot.
Good thing is, he has age on his side and can learn and adapt.
Frimpong - not a winger or full-back, still don't know what is his best position. good thing is did not break the bank and was happy to come here.
Ekitike - main man at Frankfurt and can't play support role for long or can't adjust to sitting on bench for too long.
Slot got it wrong benching him to get Isak's fitness. it is costing the team but some blame has to be taken by Ekitike himself.
Salah - Main man for so many seasons and now all others are wanting to be the star man. He has to adjust and adapt and this is taking time. This is a new role for him also and he never was a out and out winger. It would make sense to change his position from far wide to a bit closer or second striker.
Wirtz - Yet to show anything of substance but he was the main man at Leverkusen and everything went through him. He also needs to adapt to a change in role.
hope he lives up to this generational talent reputation.
Never rated Macca during our title winning season also which many of the fans would disagree. He was made to look good because his competition in the team was Jones, Eliott etc.
Just because he came cheap and member of Argentina world cup team and 1 or 2 blinders will not subdue the fact that he is a average a player at best.
Not sure where the stats mean got wrong, they could have done better than Kerkez and Frimpong. I still hope they will come good.
Bradley - for all his CL heroics again mbappe, is upcoming player with lots to learn in terms of positioning and when to attack/ carry the ball and when to keep it simple.
Our requirement was to add more strength in midfield which we took a gamble with an opportunistic signing (wirtz) and it is yet to pay off. He might still come oood and all will be good.
Just because we have an super expensive bench and top talent doesn't mean we ought to be super duper football on the pitch as expected by many fans who are calling for Slot's head.
They need to adapt, and accept new roles and most importantly adjust to other players.
Added to that, this Hettinga replacement (VB) idea at rangers - not sure it is fair to attribute the loss but isn't looking great.
I don't want to see heavy metal stuff again (it is passe) which many of you might not agree. but want slot to get back to his half time tweaks like last year where he would course correct based on match situation (controlled style of play where you pick and choose moments to attack) to return with proper personnel in the team.
Chiesa is no answer for many of you thinking to replace Salah. The one game we lost to Plymoth was a good sample enough.
He is good to come in the last 10, 15 mins and show his stuff. We will be up for bigger dissappointment if he starts . feel so.
21 Oct 2025 11:12:30
Endo, I get what you're saying but you are missing the context. If I remember correctly BR's arse was already on the chopping block the moment the prev. season ended. The late Ed02 had said back then that at the start of 15/ 16, then Sporting manager Jorge Jesus had been approached to take the job, so was Ancellotti and so was Klopp. Ancelotti said no. Klopp said yes.
Notice that as soon as Klopp agreed, BR was given his walking papers the day before the Everton game at Goodison with reports saying that the Merseyside derby would be his last game in charge regardless of the result.
This a much diff. situation to Slot hence, this is why I say, Slot ain't getting sacked anytime soon cos knee-jerk decisions are not what the club does. Hope this clarifies things.
21 Oct 2025 11:17:42
Rodger’s didn’t win us the league and clearly wasn’t up too the level.
21 Oct 2025 11:39:55
The most worrying thing in all This is whichever way you look at it your all debating Slot vs Rogers.
That in its self tells me we’re Bang in trouble.
21 Oct 2025 11:42:53
Easy to say now. if not for Gerrad slip/ back pass and Hendo's needless red card against city.
His tactics were over the top but some of the stuff from S S S was great to see. this is in a way similar to Klopp gung ho style but don't understand the logic of - If Klopp does, it;s great and if it is Rodgers it is crap.
maybe due to his shiny teeth and pres conference. he was so full of himself.
21 Oct 2025 11:49:39
No one is debating Slot vs Rodgers. Just a random assertion connecting Slot to Rodgers.
Also Rodger’s had a lightening in a bottle season and nothing else. Are we saying this is the same as Klopp?
21 Oct 2025 11:50:52
Okay so Chiesa played one bad game against Plymouth, with a lineup that had never played together with one another before, and that means he's put himself out of the running to ever start a game for us? What kind of logic is that?
21 Oct 2025 12:08:55
That game showed there is a gap in the way his mind is thinking and the way his legs/ running. I like him and still like him honestly but if someone has not played him for a year to get him match fit means/ says a lot.
Even now, he looks good because when he comes we don't have many options or time to change the game. Just run behind the ball like hell. In fact he is looking like/ having Nunez Chaos streak when he comes on now.
Nothing wrong in benching Salah forfew games.
21 Oct 2025 12:58:16
Honestly I agree that Chiesa physically probably can't play 90 minutes or even start two games a week and I don't know how well he will do starting as a winger since he looks better for us in central areas, but he is doing so well in his appearances for us surely he warrants a lot more time than he is getting.
21 Oct 2025 12:59:51
Endo, Rodgers was allowed a whole season of being crap between finishing 2nd and being sacked. The only reason he survived the summer is because Klopp hadn't decided to committ to club until October.
21 Oct 2025 13:50:17
We didn’t lose the league because of the Gerrard slip, we lost it due to tactical naivety, that Palace game twice conceding from our own corners due to being caught on counter……I remember whatching the game live and I was furious as I knew then that could be the game that decides the fate of the title.
Had Rodger’s should the ability to make in game tactical changes the Gerrard slip would have been irrelevant, you can’t win a league by gifting goals when 3-0 up.
21 Oct 2025 13:43:29
Bradley is stealing a living off one sliding tackle.
21 Oct 2025 13:46:25
@man. of. todd, I know it’s been over 10 yrs, but Roger’s Liverpool were a slip away from winning the league with far inferior players than were at the disposal of Klopp/ Slot when their teams won it. Rogers team were great to watch, albeit you’d have no fingernails by full time. The following season LFC brought in some mind bogglingly bad replacements, how would anyone think Ballotelli would be the answer to the question of replacing Suarez? So while I don’t think Rogers has become a great manager, I think if Gerard hadn’t done his Bambi on Ice routine, he could have developed into a better version of what he is now.
21 Oct 2025 13:58:37
Sami, by your logic on Chiesa VVD shouldn't play as he's had a couple of shockers, same for Konate, Mac hasn't had one good performance yet, Mo's been AWOL for 4 matches in a row, we wouldn't be able field a team if we followed your logic of dropping a player if he's had a bad game.
21 Oct 2025 15:17:03
Actually Rodgers was hopeless, couldn't organise a defence and was carried by Suarez and Sturridge being able to stay healthy for a season and having the year of his life, Sterling emerging into genuine stardom and Hendo finally starting to look like the player we bought from Sunderland. If you hear Ian Graham's side of the story Brendan wanted more and more power to dictate transfers and every single player he brought in (okay, Joe Allen was a reasonably decent squad player for us) was absolute pants, he forced the issue to the transfer team to get Benteke at all costs when there were other options on the table.
Remember when he gave a cryptic hint to us fans that a very exciting signing was in the pipeline and it ended up being Borini? Yeah, that was Brendan Rodgers, who sent out a reserve team against Real at the Bernabeu (in the 2nd game of our last 4 game losing streak, though that one was much more dismal than this one, I feel) .
21 Oct 2025 15:19:33
Macca and Salah are having a poor season so far and just be dropped, I think that Frimpong and kerkev and Frimpong should not have been brought in, I also think that Isak is taking away from Ekitike, we just have brought in a Jota type player who would be a 2nd striker, not a perfect transfer window at all, slot is definitely under pressure now and a couple more defeats will be a turning point, so its vital that we win the next couple of premier games,
can't see us winning tomorrow night without Grav.
21 Oct 2025 15:34:03
Only thing I’d say about macca is I hope Madrid come in for him in the summer.
21 Oct 2025 15:43:54
Obvious point. Rodgers was coming off a season in which we finished 6th having lost 12 games. He then got a few games in 2015/ 16 probably until we could convince Klopp.
Slot just won the league.
Slight difference in situations.