05 Mar 2026 07:39:01
{Ed's Note - KeeDal has posted a new article entitled, Liverpool Concerns Over Slot, Standards and Squad Attitude
05 Mar 2026 08:27:30
Took the words right out of my mouth, mate. I agree with everything you said 100%. There are no excuses. It's all down to Slot, our fitness, and players' attitudes.
05 Mar 2026 08:35:23
Stopped reading at "Klopp's second league title in all but name."
What a load of nonsense.
05 Mar 2026 10:02:25
I think injuries, players dropping form like Konate and Van Dyke, changing lots of players, buying quality rather than caring about squad depth are also factors to be taken into consideration.
The change in formation with the actual squad vs previous squad is also a factor in the performance.
We had Trent with long cross balls, gone.
We had Diaz with speed and helping the left side of defence, gone.
We had Nunez with his speed and ability to help in defence, gone.
Needed time for Kerkez to adapt to our playing style.
Salah had to adapt to new colleagues' playing style.
Barcola was promised in place of Diaz, but that did not happen.
We literally killed the game with no fast players in the squad.
Fans wanted this and that player; we got them, but they need time to adapt.
Now they want this or that manager, and then will still complain if Alonso does not perform to the expectations and will say give him 1 year to adapt.
In that case, just give Slot that 1 year to correct things which went wrong.
There are ups and downs in football and bad luck too.
I would keep Slot as he knows what is wrong and will make those changes.
We knew we needed a defender in Jan, but still did not buy one for Jan, only for July.
Letting so many youngsters go to balance the books has depleted the squad. Most of them were homegrown and would not have been a problem.
Thank you.
05 Mar 2026 10:08:36
I'm with you on that, 6 Gold Stars.
05 Mar 2026 10:17:42
6 Gold Stars and Rome, that's my only beef with the article. I find that dig a bit low because even Klopp would be livid with that dig towards Slot.
Now, all the rest? I fully agree with.
05 Mar 2026 10:58:32
That's just not a very thought out piece in general.
You call Slot the worst manager in our history, yet before Shankly came along we were languishing at the bottom of the old 2nd Division. Surely there were worse managers back then?
Souness took over a title-winning team and took them backwards.
Evans was entertaining, but never really challenged.
Houllier won a treble, but in truth never got close to a title.
Rafa won number 5, but his boring football ultimately cost us (he should've won a title in 2009 but drew too many games with his conservative football).
Hodgson was truly awful at everything, but it was a difficult time for the club.
King Kenny steadied the ship.
Rodgers nearly cracked it, but his ego cost us a title (he just needed a draw at home against Chelsea and blew it), and then he fell off a cliff.
Klopp won 1 title and 1 CL; our best manager since King Kenny, first time around.
Slot won the title in his first year at the club.
So you see, just looking at our Premier League managers, Slot cannot be considered anywhere near the worst because there is only 1 other manager who won the league and only 1 other that even came close.
You're also not taking into account anything that happened in the summer in your somewhat biased assessment of his reign.
You're just annoyed that we haven't won as many games as you'd like and are looking for someone to blame for your bruised ego.
In truth, there are many reasons for this season, and yes Slot is one of them, but he's far from the worst manager we've ever had in our history.
05 Mar 2026 11:13:38
Liverpool hadn't won the title when Souness took over.
05 Mar 2026 11:38:06
Technically he did. LFC won the 89/90. He took over in the 90/91 season.
05 Mar 2026 12:10:44
91/92 mate.
05 Mar 2026 12:21:58
Got you now Pbn. Souness took over in April 91. ?
05 Mar 2026 13:05:21
To be fair, Kenny left an aging squad for Souness, who then bought the wrong players.
05 Mar 2026 13:07:03
Even if what you say were true in terms of results, the league was very different when Rodgers and Hodgson were managers. Can we seriously sit here and say that the Norwich that Suarez would single handedly knock the stuffing out of every time we faced them was anywhere near the level of a Forest, West Ham, Wolves today? Spurs are 17th in the league, they are also in the last 16 of the Champions League.
The Premier League is awash with money and the fact that every single team bar maybe Burnley (though Esteve is a decent player) has a player that a top team would contemplate picking up if they went down is very revealing of where the league is at right now. Can we honestly say that Forest, West Ham, Wolves, Bournemouth, Brentford, Fulham, Leeds wouldn't make it through the Champions League playoff stages to get into the groups if they were seeded there? I genuinely think they would beat pretty much any team in the qualification stages, Prem teams are just that much more athletic, physical and defensively organised than teams elsewhere because of the massive budgets. It used to be that Stoke would be a banana skin for teams because of their physicality and specialisation at set pieces, well, now every single team is like Stoke City with frightening pace on the counter and a hundred times the financial budget.
That's what makes the suggestion that Slot is the worst and luckiest manager in our history absolutely ludicrous, and I find it a bit appalling that anybody could agree with that. The Premier League now presents unique challenges and with the massive amounts of money involved and the desperation to minimise risks given the money involved, has assumed a form that few of us anticipated and even fewer of us enjoy as a spectacle.
I find it a bit odd that the narrative keeps being pushed on here that Slot has an idea of football that he wants to advance and force on the team, that his idea has repeatedly failed but he keeps trying to thrust it down the throats of the players and the fans.
To me the reality is very different. It's rather that he had an idea of how he expected us to play given his expectation of the league, that idea was rudely shown to be inadequate, and he has tried throughout the season to try and adapt and pick up points at the expense of whatever philosophy he had, which he has been unable to execute whether through personnel, fitness, timidity, fear and conservatism on his own part, or whatever. I think he has been shellshocked at points at times this season and has been foundering and has made bad judgments from time to time, but he has also made good judgments from time to time as well and arrested a slide into the abyss when things were at their worst.
I don't know about the rest of you but. as I have repeated time and time again on here, I still find it difficult to lay everything at the manager's door. Until he leaves the club he is a part of the club and my support for the club means that I support him too. I think we are in a difficult situation for a number of reasons, and he is the person tasked with making the best of it, and I hope that he does, because I can see that he has been trying to.
Of course we can and should criticise the solutions he has devised when things go wrong, but I just don't get the spitefulness and the venom towards the man, which can assume such outrageous proportions, taken completely out of context, that he is anywhere near the worst Liverpool manager of the Premier League era.
05 Mar 2026 13:47:30
Patrik, In fairness, Spurs are only there because of this new format. They've played Monaco, PSG, Dortmund, Copenhagen, Slavia Prague & Frankfurt.
The league format is more entertaining, but massively watered down in quality and necessity to win games.
05 Mar 2026 14:42:00
Yes, but against those teams, they proved that they can hold their own against a lot of big teams in Europe. Dortmund were thoroughly outdone by Spurs, and Spurs barely looked like they had to break a sweat most of the time, despite looking utterly wretched in the Prem.
05 Mar 2026 15:37:35
Pat, Dortmund are a shadow of the team they used to be. And I forgot to mention, the only reason Spurs are in the CL is because they won the most watered-down Europa League ever.
Prime Suarez would still tear apart these modern-day PL teams, regardless of the money inflation the league is in.
05 Mar 2026 16:14:53
He probably would, JK, but what I mean is that the Norwich of yore is nowhere near the standard of the relegation battlers in the Prem today. These relegation battlers, in my estimation, would not be anywhere near the relegation zone in any of the other top leagues in Europe. Dortmund might not be the team they once were, but physically they were nowhere near Spurs. I can't imagine that this imbalance would have existed a few years ago.
I'm not sure why we are continuing to have this argument, unless you think that the quality of Prem teams, with all the money that's pouring into it, is the same as it has always been? A team like Sunderland would never have been able to buy like they have upon promotion and attract a player the caliber of Xhaka in the past.
05 Mar 2026 16:21:58
And I agree with you that Spurs probably don't deserve to be in the CL. But I would also argue that virtually any team from the Prem would make it through the CL qualification stages if they were put in it. Dortmund isn't the team they once were, but the reality is that they are 6 points ahead of the third best team in Germany, in second, and were playing the 17th best team in England.
If Everton were in the Europa League this year, would it be a stretch to claim that they would probably be favourites to win it? So it's not a matter of me saying Spurs are there on merit, but that their performance reflects the imbalance between the Prem and the other leagues at present. It's just not as easy to dominate teams lower down the table in the Prem as it used to be.
05 Mar 2026 16:43:06
Not sure why we are continuing to have this argument.
What argument, mate. I thought we were chatting.
I'll skip past from now on and won't bother engaging.
05 Mar 2026 17:27:26
Jose Sa
Porro
Vdv
Disasai
Diouf
Elliott Anderson
Joao Gomes
Gibbs-White
Bowen
Summerville
Solanke
Not a bad 11 from the bottom 5, and there's plenty like Kulusevski, Kudus, Calvert Llewin, Stack not in there. Would be pushing Champions League places in any league in Europe.
05 Mar 2026 17:39:56
Kit, I would argue that if we did have pace in the squad, Slot wouldn't be using it. So many of our "counters" end up with the ball back w Virgli/Ibou/Ali.
06 Mar 2026 02:48:20
Yeah that was a very good argument I must say. Very well done.