12 Oct 2026 19:38:11
I have been doing some looking at stats which tell a grim reality
Over the last 44 PL games we have failed to score in the first half 28 times. (It's 5 out of 6 this season )
Last season our average time to score our first goal was the 45th minute
This season it's the 40th minute (it's lower due to isaks early goal against Ipswich, without this it would be over an hour)
I have since last November been expecting us not to score every first half - we start games so slowly And without tempo
Although yesterday was much better - we never looked like creating much
This has to change or we are in trouble again this season.
12 Oct 2026 19:52:01
Well we watched a full season and every single Liverpool fan could see the holes in the squad
Then summer came and we didn't fill the Gaps.
Added onto that we've lost the best player we've had since Steven Gerrard and didn't bother to replace him either
So if your calculations are correct and we've started just the same as we carried on last season, it makes perfect sense, because all we've done is swap the coach and said to him "go work a miracle".
12 Oct 2026 20:03:10
Exactly LFC8. So you're coming round to my way of thinking. It wasn't all down to Slot.
12 Oct 2026 20:06:53
I thought Slot was the problem last season. Iraola is going to improve every player right?
12 Oct 2026 20:23:42
No it was The 3 musketeers that ruined us. Slot, Hughes and Edwards.
I always said it was all 3, not just Arne.
Hughes was still here destroying the club in the summer and that's why we're still in just as big of a mess as we are now, because he wasn't sacked.
Disgrace of a summer Rome, it's set Liverpool back years that transfer window.
12 Oct 2026 20:32:13
I think the play is improving we went toe to toe with city yesterday that wouldn't have happened under slot sorry? Bad recruitment imo, Darwin may not of been a goal scorer but he was always available. I just hope those in charge can see what we see and act.
12 Oct 2026 20:46:31
Fair enough, LFC8. However, there were absolutely loads on here saying that last years squad would've won the league, but for the "bald fraud". They've gone quiet. I banged on all last season that it wasn't all down to Slot, even though, come the finish, I'd had enough of him. Iraola was never going to come in and wave a wand, like absolutely loads on here were saying.
He's a football coach, not Jesus. It can be argued that Slot was dealt a bad hand with the summer 2025 transfer window, following your rationale. That's looking a more disastrous window than the one that's just gone.
12 Oct 2026 22:27:36
Not replacing Mo Salah was a catastrophe Rome.
One of the biggest football clubs the world has ever seen, with no recognised Right Winger.
How that's happened is beyond me? It's got to be the worst window of modern times. 6 months before he went, we knew he was off ? it's actually unbelievable.