26 Oct 2025 01:10:17
Wirtz needs to be taken out of the team, the defence looks terrible, but a lot of it is still down to how easily we get played through the midfield, which has been the case for a very long time. Slot doesn't seem to acknowledge this at all, he just about got away with using Endo in a few games last season, but it's a much more pressing need now.
Wirtz is like a boy against men in the PL, taken off the ball so easily, constantly losing it. Offering zero threat going forward unless he has no defenders within 20 yards of him. I'm perplexed how people constantly state 'he will come good'
He has no attributes which would even remotely suggest he will come good, even at his best in Germany, I never thought he would be anything but an ok player in the PL. Hence my initial statement that his arrival did not excite me as much as someone like Mbuemo would have.
I genuinely think he is going to overtake Keita as our worst big money signing.
26 Oct 2025 01:49:55
Nonsense, this is not on Wirtz. Most level headed people can see he's a class act but unfortunately he's playing in a team lacking everything at present. Players like him might hopefully pull us out of this rut. There's bigger problems right now in this team.
26 Oct 2025 01:02:41
Writing any new player off after 9 league games is ridiculous especially when the whole team is struggling so badly.
26 Oct 2025 01:16:27
Does seem a bit like another Thiago signing atm. Clear intent to shift our style of play but not working despite the talent.
For me it’s the silly little passes he keeps playing first time in the middle of the park. Understand if they come off it will look great and open up space but the players he is playing with don’t have the ability to take them in a retain the ball. When he or they invariably lose it it leaves us exposed in the middle of the park. 2nd goal is the casing point, no need for him to play that ball first time - doesn’t seem to have concept of risk vs reward.
Constantly moved off the ball as well and shirking challenges. Needs a few months to bulk up and get Upto speed but until then needs to use his brain a bit more. For 100 mill should also have scored the one chance he had.
26 Oct 2025 02:33:08
They just need more time.
Players will get used to Wirtz's one-touch passes and movement.
Few times Bradley had the ball on the wing with Wirtz cutting across the box for the ball. Instead of trying to play to Wirtz, maybe work a 1-2, Bradley just turned back to his CMs and then we recycled across the invisible force field we put up 25 years out from goal lol
I just think people who say Wirtz should sit out, are waiting for magic. He has magic in his boots, but more important is that the chemistry builds
The guy who should be on the bench is Mo. Giving absolutely nothing. and yes, I am not swayed by his goal.
26 Oct 2025 03:54:09
Our issues are down to poor pressing, slow counter attacks and a leaky defence. All the things we used to excel at under Klopp. Blame players all you like but the system is not helping them at all.
Slot needs a serious rethink or he might find himself out of a job by Xmas.
26 Oct 2025 06:52:21
Christmas? This can't go on until Christmas.
26 Oct 2025 06:57:09
Blaming Wirtz? WTF?
This season, no matter which team is put out wrt personnel, it's always the same. We were lucky to get those results early on, and now reality is hitting hard.
What the team is going through is not a personnel issue wrt players, it's a setup and tactics issue.
Slot and his managerial team are fully to blame hear.