05 Dec 2025 19:47:11
If we do sack slot I'd hope we'd get an interim manager until the end of the season if we couldn't get who we really wanted now.
Naggelsmann is top of my list to take over. I think he's potentially special. I don't want Glasners football. Zidane, alonso, ariola I'm not fond on atall for many reasons.
05 Dec 2025 20:51:44
Do you think an interim manager will come in and turn things around? I don't think you've really thought this through. Forgive my ignorance, when was the last time an interim manager stepped in, turned the fortunes around, and then stepped down for an incoming manager.
To be honest, unless there's a permanent solution to our problems, I suggest we stick with what we've got; and I'd guess that's precisely what Edwards and Hughes are doing.
{Ed025's Note - Martin O,Neill at Celtic Rome?..
05 Dec 2025 21:06:02
Evening Ed025. With respect, does Scottish football count! Even Gerrard did ok up there!
{Ed025's Note - it was the only one i could remember Rome, mind you at my age i cant remember if iv put sugar in my tea mate.. :)
05 Dec 2025 21:17:24
To be fair my mate, you shut me up with O'Neil! I never claim to always be right. I'm often proven wrong.
I've stopped taking sugar in my tea for that very reason!
{Ed025's Note - i dont think anyone can shut you up Rome...and i can certainly live with that mate.. :)
05 Dec 2025 21:20:36
Gus hiddink, not Liverpool related but he done well at Chelsea as interim.
05 Dec 2025 21:37:24
Scouse, you've shut me up as well, mate! I'll get me coat!
05 Dec 2025 21:55:14
Remains to be seen, but we should be good enough to make top 4 whether we keep Slot or not.
The real question is what is best for the medium to long term.
05 Dec 2025 21:57:09
Not really a fan of interim managers as well, Rome but sometimes, they are necessary. Whether they take the job full time afterwards, is another story.
05 Dec 2025 22:10:24
Didn't Rafa do a decent job at Chelsea too.
{Ed025's Note - and at Everton Keith....oh wait no he never because he was an absolute bag of crap who has not got a jar of glue mate..
05 Dec 2025 22:11:39
You never know. Di Matteo won the Champions League as interim manager, with Chelsea.
I remember it well, even though I forgot the year. Chelsea was doing very well under Villas-Boas. Then he lost 2 or 3 consecutive games, and Abramovich's trigger happy fingers did the rest. Di Matteo took over as interim for the remainder od the season.
05 Dec 2025 22:48:30
Faith you really believe were good enough for top 4 if we keep Slot . it looks nowhere near top 4 for me . hope im wrong because im a Liverpool fan but think if we keep him on . can only see 6th to 8th myself.
05 Dec 2025 22:54:19
ArAy1969, and got sacked which is what saw Rafa getting the interim job.
05 Dec 2025 22:57:48
What did Rome do for us.
05 Dec 2025 22:56:39
Ed25, slow down on the Rafa slander. Even you said at the time that Rafa should never have taken the job cos his affiliation with LFC would always be his downfall whenever things went south, which eventually happened cos we all knew it would.
You were very gracious with him at the time and I agreed with you that Rafa at Everton was a lose/ lose situation. Now you are changing your tune and calling him all types of names. Not a good look, mate.
{Ed025's Note - i was full of expectation at the start Oli, turned out he was a bit of a numpty mate, after Liverpool he never seemed to keep a job down mate...i think that tells you all you need to know about the clown...just my opinion of course..
05 Dec 2025 23:21:50
This is the real conundrum and I’d guess the reason why Slot is still in situ. Sack the manager and bring in what would clearly be the clubs 2nd or 3rd choice replacement or give Slot till the summer and get there preferred option who they obviously believe is a higher caliber than what is available now. Question is can we afford to wait ie can slot achieve champions league football.
Jury is currently out! In terms of an interim I actually think the only viable option is Klopp as he would most likely be happy to do the job for a short period however that would make the next managers job even tougher kinda like when Fergie stepped down but was always lurking the corridors of old Trafford.
06 Dec 2025 00:13:03
I know everyone is clutching at pearls at the moment but we are literally 2 points away from top 4.
06 Dec 2025 02:06:30
Ed25 - You don't criticize anyone like that. but why take it all on Rafa?
Was surprised with your rant.
{Ed025's Note - a bit of it is tongue in cheek Sami but he was really awful at Everton mate, not only was the football abysmal but the players he brought to the club were not worth a carrot and cost a fortune, add to that his miserable demeanor and it adds up to a marriage made in hell..
06 Dec 2025 04:48:39
Yeah but Ron, we are two points from fourth on a downward trajectory. Im sure we’d all love to win the majority of the next 20 odd games and be close to the top, but all the signs of this season suggest we will have a tough time staying above mid-table.
06 Dec 2025 08:05:51
Darwin, we are “close” to top 4 now.
Maybe I should stop reading Stromsgodset’s posts.
06 Dec 2025 08:46:23
To be fair ed25, Everton were a basket case ?.
{Ed025's Note - we were Irish, but he made it worse..
06 Dec 2025 09:47:32
In that case we should be fairly optimistic for the season, Ron. The treble is still on regardless of how awful we have looked.
06 Dec 2025 10:05:10
Yes the fall out from Rafa at Everton lasted for years, as the "fans" were willing the team to lose hoping for Rafa to get sacked.
That gave the players the message that losing week in week out was ok and until Moysey came back that is what they did, and flirted with relegation for a couple of years.
{Ed025's Note - i dont know anyone who wanted us to lose Langland, but it was a very dark time in our history when the fat Spanish waiter came to our club mate..
06 Dec 2025 12:18:32
We’re on an upward Darwin, points wise. Performance wise slightly up as well. Tonight though is as always the key game. If we win it’s definitely onward and upwards, if we lose its a bit back to square one.
I think we’ll win tonight, Isak and Wirtz to score. No interim required and a decision will be made in the summer on Arne. That’s what I’m hoping anyway.
06 Dec 2025 13:02:49
Ron, if you stop reading my posts, your life will be a lot duller . embrace my posts ha.