30 Dec 2025 16:59:32
Reading Carla’s latest post regarding Slot’s position, I still maintain that if he goes after having 2 years at the club, then both Edwards and Hughes need to follow him.
He was their man - they chose him and if he’s not right for LFC, who is to say that ME and RH will pick the right one next time around?
30 Dec 2025 17:18:38
He is the right man, won a title, had to transition us away from trent and salah leading to our worst run in 70 odd years but still has us 4th with over half a season to go.
30 Dec 2025 17:26:28
Just stop playing boring football. Nobody “demands” titles. We don’t even have the right to win games.
But we do demand decent attacking football, and if we’re going to lose, going to go without trophies, at least Play the right way, the Liverpool Way.
30 Dec 2025 17:42:57
And that is the crux of it liverpoolfc8.
30 Dec 2025 17:45:41
The whole point of the structure is to provide continuity of the sporting side of the business. In these structures, coaches, like players, come and go with the structure being capable of handling that. Ambitious Sporting Directors move around too as they build their CVs and may have designs on becoming sporting CEOs or even club investors/ owners one day.
If Slot has two CL-qualifying seasons with LFC plus a title before leaving, that would be deemed a success, wouldn't it?
Klopp and Guardiola type of reigns are rarer than hen's teeth in modern football.
Don't get me wrong, the jury is out on Richard Hughes for me. Let's see what he does over the couple of windows but also, what the vibe around the academy will be - a good indicator of the culture that is being fostered at the club.
30 Dec 2025 17:53:44
Anyone could have spent half a billy for LFC, Hughes has done nothing special as yet.
Buying the next Robbo / Mane / Firmino is the work.
30 Dec 2025 18:03:31
3 months ago everyone was raving about Hughes, saying our best ever transfer window. What's changed?
30 Dec 2025 18:11:14
Not everyone, Rome. Not everyone.
30 Dec 2025 18:13:27
The league table Rome. If we get a few players in the key positions, play some better football, and start battling for the top places the off the field stuff will be forgotten.
30 Dec 2025 18:25:39
Hughes surely deserves some credit: players as sought after as Wirtz, Kerkez, Isak and Frimpong don’t usually join us.
I am curious about Semenyo. It is striking that Chelsea so quickly stepped back, and that we haven’t made a concrete move for him. I suspect he has wage demands that make City his only viable home?
30 Dec 2025 18:34:59
Agree with AR, FC8,Scouse John.
30 Dec 2025 19:05:10
Rome
6 months before that Hughes was getting it in the neck from all and sundry.
30 Dec 2025 19:15:00
I'm pretty sure most demand titles or do you want to give them all back? Attractive football is a nice to have, titles are a requirement when you are LFC. Are you honestly telling me you're willing to go another 35 years without a title as long as we play attractive football? Give me a break.
What brings in more revenue? A mid-table, trophy-less team that plays attractive football or a PL/ CL winning side that plays "boring" football? I get that fans want to be entertained, but there's no way in h3ll top club owners will accept not winning trophies in lieu of playing attractive footie.
30 Dec 2025 19:15:58
Swiftly, I don’t agree that he should have transitioned away from Salah. No one will ever convince me that the highest scoring and assisting MVP last season has turned bad in a couple of months, let alone the staggering coincidence that his form dipped as Slot’s turgid tactics come into place.
30 Dec 2025 19:36:32
Frode by all accounts, due to Salah’s age, he was exempted from tracking back last season because his attacking output was so good. That output has dropped off considerably this year. In the games so far this season his passing has been woeful, he loses the ball a lot, his touch is heavy when he gets the ball and his shooting has been way word. Slot didn’t make that happen, he is just out of form, an awful lot of people were calling for him to be dropped and our form has improved since he was.
It is sad to see, but Mo has an awful lot of miles on the clock and playing constantly, high octane football for so many years was always likely to have an affect on his body, even for such a supreme athlete who looks after himself.
30 Dec 2025 19:52:25
Frode, we were always going to have to transition away from Salah - but the expectation was that it would be gradual. His form since March has been dreadful, and Slot should have shown some bottle and benched him far earlier.
We continued to use Mo as our creative fulcrum for far too long, when all the evidence suggested we should not be doing so: every ball to him came straight back at us, with his first touch having left him, and all made worse by his refusal to track back, or pass the ball when he hadn’t lost it.
I don’t think it a coincidence that we are unbeaten since Mo has been dropped. Mo - if he so wishes - still has a major role in this squad, but he needs to fight for his place, and become used to being an impact sub.
Wirtz and Ekitike now the players to build our attacks through.
30 Dec 2025 19:57:27
@redmob: think the club flourished financially under klopp winning nothing but getting to finals. sponsors fighting to be part of it and biggest kit deals in our history not bad for not many titles eh? Unlike this sh*te We are being served up now. We’ll soon be last on motd again at this rate.
30 Dec 2025 19:58:19
I agree fully with Frode. Well said Sir!
30 Dec 2025 20:08:41
Get a grip Scouse John, the sponsors are only interested in how visible their brand is, not the type of football the team plays. I bet some American companies couldn’t tell you anything about how soccer is played.
LFC will always be prime for product placement. This is why MU continue to be such a draw for sponsors, even though they haven’t had a good team since Fergie left.
30 Dec 2025 20:16:10
@scouse - the club flourished financially because we were winning and challenging for titles and had one of the biggest personalities at the helm. The Nike kit deal happened the year we WON the PL and the year after we WON the CL.
Had we not been at or near the top and out of the top 4 on a regular basis the years prior to that, but still playing oh so exciting football, I think the financial picture would have looked vastly different.
30 Dec 2025 20:16:12
Scouse, we all like to see propulsive, attacking football - but I think even Klopp would struggle to deliver it when every club is now playing football as rugby: strong defensive set-up, wait for the opposition to concede a foul, and then cash in on the set piece.
Hard to judge what Slot’s identity for this new team is as we are currently playing damage limitation. But it’s definitely less boring than the Rafa or GH days of playing the channels.
But I don’t think a coach builds a team around Wirtz if they don’t appreciate intricate play.
30 Dec 2025 20:26:56
Apparently we can either play good football or win titles and not both. Whilst I like being the champions and clearly want us to win titles I watch football for entertainment not as an investor or sponsor and honestly I’m bored to tears watching us play under slot, even when we were winning! Ask yourself would you even support Liverpool if they played football like this when you first watched a game.
30 Dec 2025 20:35:34
Dow-ney, that takes the biscuit.
You don’t think LFC got any new supporters over the last 30 years at times when we played bad?
I said it before, there are some loons on this site.
30 Dec 2025 20:43:57
Dow-ney, many of us started supporting the club during Paisley, and the football wasn’t always great. Winning, though, was always entertaining.
After Dalglish, the only time we played prettier football than anyone else was under Roy Evans, and we underachieved then. We had a soft underbelly, which is what you get with pretty, attacking play (eg Ange at Spurs) .
England’s bazball cricket is a pretty good recent example of the emptiness of playing to entertain, rather than to win. Sportsmen aren’t paid to entertain, but to win. The entertainment in sport is the contest, not about anything else other than winning or losing.
30 Dec 2025 20:56:04
I started supporting Liverpool at the age of 5 in 1981 and I can honestly say that I want to be entertained when watching us play the majority of the time. Matches are every 3/ 4 days and last around 100 mins, winning a trophy is an evening or 2 of jubilation and life goes on.
30 Dec 2025 21:04:02
Dow - Torres made me first watch LFC; listening to Anfield sing YNWA that very first time made me stay - it was like nothing else and it still gives me chills every time. I knew nothing about LFC because I lived in the US, but have grown to absolutely love this club, the good and the bad. If all you're looking for is entertainment, then I'm sure there's a team out there that will satisfy that requirement. And when/ if they become boring, you can find another team after that. But LFC is about more than just being entertained, at least to me, and I suspect to you and a lot of others on this site as well, which is why we're all here and so passionate about them succeeding and reaching their full potential. I'm sorry if you're suffering through every game, I would love nothing more than to have this team playing entertaining AND winning football. Unfortunately, we're just not there right now. But I hope we get there soon so no more tears are shed ;)
If entertainment is simply the goal, then you're right, I wouldn't continue to tune into LFC either.
30 Dec 2025 21:04:31
Some good bants tonight people. For My 2 bob. I miss attacking football we played under Klopp. I loved it when the ops had a corner as I seen it as a way of us getting an attack.
Much as Nunez was poor he was the one with Diaz that basically flew at any defence. Just their directness caused havoc. I know we couldn't keep that pace up all season as it burnt the team out in the business end. Credit to Slot he recognised that and tempered it. Often he spotted problems in the first half and tweeked it at half time. I thought he was brilliant at it. But now I don't see much from him. Our transition is way to slow, gives teams a chance to block low. And we spend the next 5 mins playing across or backwards.
Some mix would be nice.
Get a chance and atack.
30 Dec 2025 21:26:38
Get Slot out or we'll lose the sponsors now??. love it.
30 Dec 2025 21:31:59
Chrissy, I miss it too - but we no longer have Trent or Virgil (now manmarked) able to ping those balls from deep, and we no longer are presented with space to run into.
But if, say, Wirtz consistently does damage through the middle, then our wingers will once again get some space, as teams look to block the middle of the pitch.
30 Dec 2025 22:38:48
I totally agree with @LiverpoolFC8. I’d love to see us playing exciting, quality football and being entertained. If we could play like we did at the back end of 2019, all the time I’d be a very happy man.
The funny thing is, if we could play that way we would win things anyway - the best of both worlds and it would also generate money fit the owners and sponsors…….
30 Dec 2025 22:54:49
No team, I don’t care who they are, plays exciting attacking football every game.
Not even Klopp’s. The closest was Brazil 1982 and they won jack all.
Every team goes through bad spells, they don’t get the breaks, they don’t get the decisions, they lose players to injuries in the same positions. Every team goes through it.
Confidence is low.
Fitness levels are low because the whole squad had a disrupted pre-season.
The defence is shambolic because Virgil is on the wane, Robbo’s legs have gone and none of the right backs can stay fit for 2 games.
No team plays exciting attacking football in those circumstances.
We need to build confidence and consistency, then to get exciting football.
Does Alonso’s teams always pay exciting attacking football? Or Iralola? Or Inzhagi?
If you sack Slot after 1 league title and a top 4 finish then which managers are going to want to join knowing they have to win the league every season playing exciting attacking football?
I swear some of the comments could be coming from Real Madrid fans.
31 Dec 2025 00:53:36
@Ron, Brazil in 1970 played exciting football all the time, mate - they were the exception though.
31 Dec 2025 11:17:09
One must not forget the most important thing in the football game.
And that's a team that win games.
Now that should be your first, second, third, fourth and fifth concern.
Now after you have that, and you know you have that, then you can start to implement your grand design.
In other words folks, first thing is first.