10 May 2026 23:56:20
If anyone is interested you can watch Iraola training sessions and tactics on YouTube. Alonso and Hoeness on there as well. All three are going to be elite. I'd be very happy with any of them. If Iraola comes in I'd hope he can bring in Scott and if Hoeness comes in then Stiller and their lb Mittelstadt.
He's 29, but would be a great option at lb as very flexible and tactically astute from watching breakdown videos. Alonso would also be a draw for top players. My only snag with Iraola is he may want to return home for his family and Hoeness is the nephew of the Bayern Hoeness so may want to manage them at some point.
11 May 2026 07:07:49
I've seen David Attenborough kick a sloth up a hill faster than we run with the ball. We should get him in as head coach.
11 May 2026 07:24:04
Kemi wouldn't tolerate this dog egg play. Woeful and slow football.
11 May 2026 07:29:50
Attenborough/sloth...... Love it!!! ?
11 May 2026 07:32:51
Alonso may also have the pull of Bayern Munich too due to his history with them. I doubt he'll be going back to Madrid again, but possibly Barca could come calling.
Not really something to worry about anyway. If they are wanted by other teams, it's likely to mean they are doing very well with us and winning things.
11 May 2026 07:54:24
I think Alonso has a bigger connection with us than Bayern, so I would not see him leaving us for them.
In fact, I would be pretty surprised if things went well that he was not here for 10+years.
11 May 2026 08:03:02
If we were worried about managers leaving before they get here, we are in trouble.
May as well appoint Gerrard as he wouldn't want to go elsewhere ...
11 May 2026 08:07:13
Totally agree, grino. Met Xabi a few times with his family, funnily enough, both times on Hope St. Top bloke and actually took a few mins to talk to me and the lads. He's my pick. He will bring back the discipline and intensity. ??
11 May 2026 10:06:45
If anyone wants to watch Slot's, they are also on YouTube, titled "how to fake being a coach, the ultimate guide to having as many days off as possible". His second channel is "more fun watching paint dry in slow motion".
11 May 2026 10:28:34
I tried to watch a Slot version of the Iraola video, but his out of office was switched on.
11 May 2026 10:30:16
LiverpoolFC 8 - indeed, and Dave Attenborough is 100 years old.
11 May 2026 10:49:52
Was it a 2-toed sloth or a 3-toed sloth?
2-toed probably easier to kick uphill.
11 May 2026 10:51:57
Iraola, Xabi and Hoeness are all early 40s. They're hardly going to be managing at the club for 10+ years.
So, the high likelihood is that they would leave for another (/bigger) opportunity at some point.
Hopefully, after doing great things with us.
11 May 2026 11:33:57
@Retire, why would you need online clips for Slot's training sessions?
a) We don't train and he's not even there when he decides to actually train these lads.
b) All you have to do is catch a game on a weekend and it is all there in full display. As in, nothing.
11 May 2026 11:40:45
Xabi Alonso is the no-brainer. Aside from having won a Champions League playing for Liverpool FC in the Premier League era, there is enough evidence he knows how to use Florian Wirtz, our huge investment. He knows what the Anfield crowd can deliver. He's worked under Rafa, Mourinho, Guardiola, and Ancelotti.
Lastly, he, along with our former boss, Jurgen Klopp, is the only manager to have toppled Bayern Munich in recent Bundesliga history, with an Invincible league season no less.
Not sure why we have all these doubts about him?
11 May 2026 12:15:46
Alonso is the most likely to be around for ten years due to his connection to the club.
Hoeness could also follow in Klopp's footsteps - don't forget the magic factor once the poetry is back in motion and slothball has been banished back to the dark waters of Holland.
11 May 2026 12:25:00
Feyenoord's training clips when Slot was there were pretty impressive. Their football was pretty good.
11 May 2026 12:45:34
I fully agree with you, Pelican, and I've been saying these same things about Xabi for months. His time at RM is, to me, just a red dot in a sea of green dots.
Either way, it's just an opinion, so hopefully, we get him.
11 May 2026 13:24:16
I think we can get 6+ years out of Xabi easily. Can't see him leaving us for Bayern, he has a longer, richer history with us, and he only went there because it was the tail end of his career. Whoever mentioned Barca must have forgotten who Xabi played for...
He will eventually go back to Real if he is successful, but not anytime soon; maybe during the next squad cycle if things align, and he'll take the Spanish job one day, but again that's further down the line.
11 May 2026 14:17:27
Issues with Alonso - style of play (bit slow for PL) and problems getting players to stay on board with him (at Madrid) and never managed in the PL.
11 May 2026 14:32:06
Ron stop flogging that horse mate
11 May 2026 15:18:51
Ron, none of what you said is a thing and I will explain.
A) Problems getting players on board - Again, at RM, if that toxic RM changing room will get rid of the manager, if and whenever they want. Oh, and Xabi wasn't fired for poor results either, something you conveniently forget each time.
False.
B) Style of play too slow? - Clearly, you never watched Leverkusen play under him.
False, again.
Like @Chewy said, that horse has been dead. None of the reasons you don't want Xabi, do not exist in actual reality. Let it go.
11 May 2026 16:39:01
I have watched Leverkusen play but never in the Premier League - which is my point. You missed that last one.
Easier to play his way when you have time on the ball and space. Just ask Wirtz for validation.
Did he get players on board at RM?
Answer: No.
So, therefore, no matter what excuses you make, it is not a false statement that I made.
You're only fooling yourself by making excuses for him. You're not fooling me.
A good manager will be able to motivate the players and will have authority over the dressing room. I know you don't like it, but it's a fact.
11 May 2026 17:30:08
Talking of flogging dead horses, and yet for the millionth time this season we have a thread that exists purely just to bash Liverpool's current manager.
Liverpool have been pretty dreadful this season, considering they are defending champions and spent a shed load of money over the summer, we get it.
Come the summer there will be a change, that has been obvious for a long time, but heaven forbid you display a little patience.
You talk of Xabi being here for 10 years? The first sign of trouble and you’ll be throwing your toys out the pram yet again, slagging him off and demanding a new manager because you can't seem to function properly as a human unless your football team is bringing home the bling.
I know there’ll be a load of vitriolic responses to my post, and I couldn't care less.
I know I don't speak for everyone on here, but this was a place to come in order to escape the endless entitlement and reactionary b***** that dominates mainstream football pages. Not anymore.
11 May 2026 19:23:01
"A good manager will be able to motivate the players and will have authority over the dressing room. I know you don't like it, but it's a fact."
You must be projecting here, mate because none of what you have posted are facts. So tell me, does this apply to "bad managers" like Capello (twice), Rafa, & Carlo (his first sacking)?
I propose to do more research because you are drowning in your own rhetoric.
If Alonso couldn't motivate the players at RM, how did he get them to a 70% (71.4%) to be exact win rate before the players turned on him and ran to their Daddy Perez to get rid because heaven forbid, he makes them run more?
Also what tha football does the whole "Never seen Leverkusen play in the PL" crap mean? Absolutely nothing and that does not remove from the great job Xabi did there, work that led him to be in the running for the LFC job after Klopp left, as well as the RM job.
If anything, you are the one making excuses and making up narratives to support your point of not wanting him. As I have said before, if you don't want Alonso, there are actual arguments to make.
Till this day, you have none because all you have been doing is make up crap despite being debunked by the Ed's and history (see above), to make Xabi look bad. You just re-posted them again, which proves my point.