11 Dec 2025 09:07:30
Genuine question here. I think its pretty obvious that i support Slot and would like to see him come through this spell, something im hoping were seeing now with this little unbeaten run. After lastnights result it is now 2 wins from 8 games for Alonso who seems to be the dream Slot replacement. I love Xabi myself and wouldn't be against him coming in if Slot goes (which is totally contradictory to the rest of my post) as a player for us he was terrific on and off the pitch. But he is getting slaughtered in Spain for the EXACT same reasons slot has. An abysmal run, terrible tactics and poor relations with the players. Now i know we'll say that's Real's players are pampered just as we said about Spur's with Frank and Utd's for the last decade but ours aren't? I know a lot of the goodwill towards Alonso is from his time as a player but that was a generation ago.
In their time as Managers Slot and Alonso's careers are pretty comparable. Slot maybe holds an advantage with his Premier League triumph. I don't think i've ever seen a team want their manager gone to bring in a manager who is going through as tough a time or maybe even tougher, to replace him. So at last to my question, why apart from Alonso's history as a player and maybe a dislike for Slot do so many of us want him to come in for Slot when his own job is hanging by a thread for having an equaly terrible run of results.
11 Dec 2025 09:19:27
Good post, Florian.
11 Dec 2025 09:41:00
Was thinking exactly the same thing myself, personally I don't see Slot leaving this season, I think he will turn this around, the win against Inter was a step in the right direction, a win at home to Brighton on Saturday will build more momentum.
11 Dec 2025 09:45:59
For me, Florian, the difference is that they are each getting pilloried by their supporters for the exact opposite style. We, who are used to heavy metal geggenpressen are seeing a worrying drop off in energy levels towards the end of matches. Ed001 has relayed that the fitness training that Klopp seemed to be so keen on has been reduced in order to preserve energy for later in the season. However, that does mean that our energy levels are dipping early.
On the flip side, Xabi is putting the team through their paces to increase fitness levels, which is contrary to the more laid back, skills based RM of previous seasons.
Surely a swap can be engineered?!
11 Dec 2025 09:59:32
Spot on Zed.
A swap between the managers and then a LFC vs RM final. OH we can but dream.
11 Dec 2025 10:15:54
I'd like Iraola to replace Slot in preference to Alonso. In saying that I'd prefer Alonso than Slot if Iraola was not an option. Not because I bear any bad tidings towards Slot it's because I think he has lost his way at LFC and he cannot regain it and persisting with Slot will bring us deeper into the mire. Our football is atrocious!
11 Dec 2025 10:21:18
Zeddicus - Exactly this.
This limp, euro-trash style which Slot is trying to implement smacks of ego and his mono-vision for how he wants his team to play is not suited to the hustle of this league.
Besides that, Alonso speaks sense, he is an intelligent man and he is able to relate to and connect with the players as Jurgen did, which is essential.
Slot has quickly come unstuck . Alonso could be our manager for a decade.
11 Dec 2025 10:23:24
Are we used to heavy metal? i havnt seen it in years. Certainly didn't win tbe league with it.
11 Dec 2025 10:44:39
How does Alonso speak sense? how do you know he is an intelligent man? Is he connecting with the madrid players? A lot of this just seems that we like him from a playing days and he is not Arne Slot.
11 Dec 2025 10:48:08
We did win the league with it FM. And the European cup too.
11 Dec 2025 11:12:50
Just a point of note. We played Alonso when he was at Leverkusen, then this season at Madrid. Hammered Leverkusen, beat Madrid. Just saying.
11 Dec 2025 11:38:12
Yeh. years ago Shanks, We havnt played that way since the 21/ 22 season.
11 Dec 2025 12:07:34
For instance who out of the 20 odd senior players now at the club have played real Jurgen in your face heavy metal ball? Alli, Ibou, Virg, Robbo and Mo? A handful left and i would say all them them apart from Ibou would struggle to play that way at this stage of their career.
To everyone else in the squad, they would have never experienced it.
11 Dec 2025 12:14:28
So nobody thinks Alonso's issues are with the RM prima Donna's which they have a lot of.
11 Dec 2025 12:38:24
Another point of note Rome, Palace beat us 3 times this season. Glasner must be far superior than Slot.
11 Dec 2025 12:39:44
Im sure some of the issues are with Prima Donna's McGoveb, just as every Man U post fergie manager has, same as Frank at Spurs etc but i laugh when its apparently only Lfc where there's no Prima Donna's and its all the managers fault.
11 Dec 2025 12:45:38
Mcgoveb, I think it does due to precedent so can't rule that out.
"This limp, euro-trash style which Slot is trying to implement smacks of ego and his mono-vision for how he wants his team to play is not suited to the hustle of this league. "
Now I don't know about the "euro-trash" stuff means BUT I agree with your overall sentiment.
11 Dec 2025 13:17:33
Ibou never played Klopp's heavy metal football though. He came after that. The only ones in the team have would be Alli, Vvd, Gomez, Robbo and Salah. Maybe Jones too but I think he hadn't broke into the first team then.
11 Dec 2025 13:32:04
Crazy that with all the hustle of this league that that very same limp euro trash style has won it 5 years on the trot.
11 Dec 2025 13:48:04
Sorry Drac you may be right. I was sure Ibou played vs Real in the 2022 season and we changed at the start of the 22/ 23 season. Was it not that season we drew away to Fulham 1st day and it was clear Hendo/ fabs legs had gone and Trent nd Robbo's roles had changed?
11 Dec 2025 13:58:28
FM, not splitting hairs but you did suggest that HMF didn't work and my response was it did. That really was the only point I was making and I get what you say about the players but it isn't the players that dictate playing style. Slots football is horrendous! With the jewelry at his disposal he should be doing much much better.
Nobody could watch this rubbish and think we're on the up. I'm firmly in the out camp. And the sooner the better. It's hard to actually comprehend the mess with the club currently. Brighter days await regardless!
11 Dec 2025 14:23:35
Good result and decent performance (Chivu clearly didn't prepare by watching any of our defeats, much like Emery didn't with Villa) versus Inter.
I don't see anything new or adaptive. We are still slow in closing down, don't win tackles until the opposition arrive in the box, the press is completely pointless and have no repeatable attacking patterns.
Add to that the lack of interest in sparking the Anfield crowd into life, I don't see what has changed.
We resemble a late-stage Wenger team.
ps A reminder that if you play >25% of your passes long against us, you beat us.
11 Dec 2025 14:40:33
Thatt's the way I look at it as well, Shankly. Good things are coming, under Slot? no chance but in the future we'll be back to our best. We have a team full of quality, the problem is the manager.
11 Dec 2025 15:40:56
You and I are on the same page Salah. The remainder of December will be interesting.
11 Dec 2025 16:43:34
Touché Mfahmee2.
11 Dec 2025 18:05:52
The team has quality players no doubt but we are weak in certain areas. The full backs are definitely a weakness as is cb. In addition we lack pace and physicality, a lot needs improving.