04 Sep 2026 07:57:48
All Ed's and reds
I agree with the view it's time for us all to get behind the Manager and the team. Like Ed001 I'm chuffed and excited we got AI I really think he's going to be the next LFC great.
I am still fuming with the club though, I want STC replaced with a seriously good DOF that is decisive and won't make us a laughing stock.
I'm fed up with the way we all expected areas of the squad to be strengthened and to be left so short that even (rat boy) Gary Neville makes comment. It's infuriating!
Anyway we have a few months to get sorted now. Get the squad fit, get rid of Hughes, i'd targets for the next 2 windows. Then push on.
Time and again I said on here SLOT Was undoing 10 years of progress made by Klopp. I hope it has stopped. Now the only way is up.
Come on you mighty Reds!
I'll take a 1-0 win tonite.
04 Sep 2026 08:35:14
It's Ipswich. Surely it's more than that, but then again I don't want to sound too ungrateful. A win's a win. I hope BB29 gets some minutes and we keep a clean sheet.
Wishful thinking for that last one tho
04 Sep 2026 08:51:29
Just get the 3 points tonight and get our season going.
04 Sep 2026 08:52:07
Any win away from home is well earned in the PL these days.
04 Sep 2026 09:17:03
Why are we a laughing stock Chrisy? We prioritised wingers this summer and got 2 very good ones in. One of them is arguably the best out and out winger in world football. We wanted another but we missed out and that can happen as we have seen with numerous other clubs.
We finally sorted the CB situation too.
Jacquet and Araujo both look good signings and Leoni is due back soon.
The only other positions people say we need are fullbacks and a DM. We bought 2 fullbacks a year ago was does it really make sense to replace them after the whole team was poor last season and they've struggled in a new system with new players in the first 2 games?
Iraola doesn't play with a DM (as most good coaches don't these days) so it wasn't a priority. We have a midfield who we know can be effective together as they were just over a year ago and we can now give game time to Nyoni who we've all wanted to kick on for the last 2 years.
I think we are in good shape. It could be better but a squad is never really perfect and never really complete. It's the same with all teams.
I think of the title hopefuls, Arsenal have had the worst window. They needed to strengthen their attack and actually weakened it. They were rejected by Vini Jr, Barcola and Alvarez and sold their entire left side. They replaced 2 players with Tzolis who's not a bad player but is certainly no better than what they already had.
Now the window is shut it's game on ?
04 Sep 2026 09:34:38
Richardsstepover is working hard.
We’ve got a lopsided squad and success will depend on the new coach overperforming while putting square pegs in round holes.
CL qualification is the best we can hope for this season, which is rather embarrassing with 700m spent.
04 Sep 2026 10:04:57
We're not a laughing stock.
And Slot didn't undo the work done by Klopp.
Slot won the League with Klopp's team and he was only there for two seasons.
If anyone is embarrassed by their team qualifying for the CL, then I don't think football, and the tribalism and banter that goes with it, is the sport for you.
You need a thicker skin than that. I often chat, in real life ?, with fans of our rivals for CL qualification and I don't get embarrassed.
Well, not for a long, long time anyway.
04 Sep 2026 10:41:51
Most successful club in English football history = Laughing stock.
Christ on a bike, tad dramatic, don't ya think?
I dread to think how some of our posters would survive if they supported another team - there are literally millions of fans who would chop an arm off for their team to be where we are right now.
I get people want to see success, but even as good as we've been, we've won the top league 20 times in over 100 years.
It's hard. It doesn't always feel great. It's bloody football; that's why we love it. We will compete, yet we may fall short. That doesn't make us a laughing stock; it makes us just like every other football team on the planet. No team is perfect. No team has a right to succeed.
{Ed025's Note - good post that CH..
04 Sep 2026 11:23:16
Amazing how words trigger people.
We could always say the club, despite being sufficiently resourced and making its best efforts, has failed to increase the probability of winning the major honours. We now all hope that the inexperienced but talented coach will overperform with the tools he has.
This is a tad disappointing for some fans who would like to have seen a concerted effort to make the club a title challenger again given the resources at their disposal.
Does that make you guys feel better?
04 Sep 2026 12:06:55
With you there, @stradarosso. Just get the win cos Iraola and this team needs it badly at this point to boost confidence.
04 Sep 2026 14:28:05
If you think someone disagreeing with you is being triggered, then you might need to try again, Pelican. ?
It's the interweb, mate. We use words to communicate and we won't always agree.
It's not a big deal though. ?