23 Mar 2026 00:02:35
There is no upside to keeping Slot in charge, not a single one. We will not get past City and PSG in the FA Cup and CL. Not going to happen. We will not finish top 5 with him there either. Surely the board see that. Surely they realise if they don't act now, next season will be so much harder for the new manager without CL football. What do they see? Surely they don't think he will turn this around? It's baffling.
He needs to go now. As soon as the whistle went against Brighton, he was away on a plane again. It takes the mick. Whilst he's getting his tan topped up, we are left fuming at another abject performance. The players look so unfit and like they have given up. He's the worst manager ever to win a title. Wish we had never taken him on.
{Ed078's Note - tell us what you really think KKT
23 Mar 2026 03:55:40
Generational head loss. If you had told me 2 years ago that Slot would win the league in his first season, and was 5th with 7 games to go in his second season, I'd have bitten your hand off. There was a time when I thought I'd never see us win the league again, and 99% of football fans would give anything to see their team win the league.
Winning the league might mean nothing to you, but it means everything to me.
23 Mar 2026 07:14:35
I can see what you're saying, Arnie, if the day Klopp announced he was leaving I would've taken ur arm off for a 1st+5th place finish in following seasons if offered it.
It ain't the losing of games that is my problem, it's the way we are losing them and the way we are playing them. No life in the games, no energy, no fight. If it was just a 5-10 game period u could live with it and understand it, but I've seen 95% of our league and the only good, convincing performance I've seen was Sunderland away. Our last 3 leagues have been atrocious, it's worse we're getting. There's just nothing to like about us, no cohesion when attacking, no bite in midfield, defence a mess individually and collectively, not fit, opposition outwork us 90% of the time.
In Slot's 1st season we looked a slick, top coached and organised team. Now we look the worst coached team in the league. There was always going to be problems replacing Klopp/Salah/VVD/Ali, but there's no way we should be as bad as we are. If there were signs of getting better I would rather stick with a manager, particularly when not an awful lot of options out there, but our trajectory is downward and it's only going 1 way, I'm afraid.
I think winning it last year relatively easily went to Slot's head, and he thought he could almost stroll through to March and then put his foot down, and he's been caught out. He's lost the fans now and I doubt most of the players as well, and they're a long way back from that.
23 Mar 2026 07:35:58
Nothing is impossible. Some of our greatest wins have been the face of adversity. Arsenal final at Cardiff, against a top side that battered us the whole game, then Owen pops up with 2 goals that emptied the Arsenal end. West Ham at Cardiff, the Gerrard final.
Let's not forget Istanbul, a bang average Liverpool side that lifted the trophy against Europe's elite team.
Slot or not, I won't be throwing the towel in until it's done. I know it's hard to be positive at the moment, but we are still in this.
23 Mar 2026 07:37:50
Arniej, Slot will go down in history for winning the league in his first season. Unfortunately, his memory will be tarnished for the way we played in his second. You have to at least work harder than the team you're playing to beat them and we don't seem to be able to do that consistently. That blame has to fall on the coach.
23 Mar 2026 08:29:09
Some generational virtue signalling and toxic positivity from ArnieJ there. Facts are that we're playing horrendously poorly, we're far too easy to play against, we look clueless in possession and even worse out of it, we're second best all over the pitch, out fought and out thought in almost every game this season. Take away those flukey wins at the start of the season and we'd be in the thick of a relegation battle, because that has been our form since October. The reality is that we won't beat PSG playing the way Slot has us playing, nor will we beat City either, so will you still be happy to just make up the numbers, Arnie? Happy to just take part? As for 5th, we're in free fall right now, I can't see where our next league win is coming from given how woeful we are.
We've taken 1 point in the whole of March, it's entirely plausible that we'll repeat that in April with the added joy of being knocked out the champions league & FA Cup. Will you still be so happy then, Arnie? It's possible to thank Slot for last season, but accept that it's simply not working this season and that he hasn't got a clue how to put it right. It's time for him to be sacked. He should have gone after the Forest & PSV games, as they were unacceptable. Nothing has improved since then.
23 Mar 2026 08:44:08
Arnie, you're comparing an era of never winning the title again to one of our most successful modern times. If it wasn't for City, Klopp likely would have had multiple league titles to his name.
Yes, when he left, we weren't on top, but it was likely a hugely emotional time for the players, and a blip is always expected. Slot then came in and got a world-class squad challenging, and won the title in a season where City and Arsenal were not at their best. Still, that doesn't take away from what he achieved, but let's not pretend he was up against the City of old.
He then spent nearly half a billion on world-class talent. I, for one, would fully expect a title challenge and to go far in the CL; it's not like he overhauled the entire squad. He added exceptional players to the team, then decided to start playing players in random positions and sticking with out-of-form players.
I'm sorry, but at no point would I bite someone's hand off for a 5th place finish. City are awful, as is the rest of the league bar Arsenal who, even now, aren't walking it. The minimum should have been a top 3 finish with a cup and a good shot at the CL.
23 Mar 2026 08:45:39
Question is, how long does last season's success buy Slot time?
If, for example, Slot stays and we miss out on CL qualification, and we go into Spurs-style free fall next season, then will the excuse not to sack him be that he won the title in 24/25?
23 Mar 2026 09:06:24
The thing that worries me is the long-term repercussions this season could have on our players and club.
We've gone from a winning culture, breaking records at home, to losing by 3 goals at home, to relegation fodder, players downing tools, toxic culture, losing/give up/soft mentality, and allowing ineptitude from senior staff.
That's very bad, and not always easy to turn around. Look at how hard it's been for United to turn around their toxic culture from the past.
23 Mar 2026 09:13:03
JK, I like the thought of going to places like Chipping Sodbury and Malvern in the Hellenic League. I think it would take us about 8 years to get there, so we're heading in the right direction. By then, I'm sure Slot will have a full head of hair, having made several trips to Turkey, back and forth, and his teeth will be visible from outer space. We'll still be asking Ed01 when will Edwards and Hughes be sacking Slot.
As a footnote, there's a delightful Wetherspoons in Malvern that offers wonderful views of the surrounding countryside, so every cloud.
{Ed001's Note - delightful and weatherspoons in the same sentence? Well there is something I never thought I would see!}
23 Mar 2026 09:46:20
Oxymoron, Ed. Hope you're well.
{Ed001's Note - all good here mate, how are things with you? How do you know the Malvern area so well?}
23 Mar 2026 10:21:39
I'm good, thanks, Ed. Got gym kit on but seeking the enthusiasm to go.
I'm from the Black Country, so it's about 40 miles away. I live in one the most undesirable areas of the country, but we have some lovely places on our door step. Also, we have the Black Country Museum and Dudley Zoo.
I never thought the Liverpool Rumours site would be turned into a promotion for the Black Country Tourist Board! Thank you for giving me the opportunity!
{Ed001's Note - not sure you are really selling it all that well with your talk of it being "one of the most undesirable areas of the country".}
23 Mar 2026 10:34:22
Hang on, Rome - nothing wrong with Chipping Sodbury, mate!
A pub crawl in the space of 100 yards and a good curry house!
23 Mar 2026 11:04:56
"Arniej, Slot will go down in history for winning the league in his first season. Unfortunately, his memory will be tarnished for the way we played in his second."
And this will be all of his own doing. Really sad.
23 Mar 2026 11:19:37
Sounds brilliant, Bristol! I'll meet you for a curry when we're playing in the Hellenic League!! If I don't see you down Padstow beforehand!