Liverpool Banter 4

08 Nov 2026 10:14:08
In January 2018 we signed Virgil Van Dijk and 5 months later we found ourselves in the Champion League Final.

If you could sign one player in Jan who could help take us to the Champions League final, who would it be?

08 Nov 2026 10:25:32
We didn't get to the CL Final just because of VVD.

08 Nov 2026 10:31:30
Declan Rice would probably be the one who'd help the team the most.

08 Nov 2026 10:31:47
I know we didn't, but he certainly helped. Not quite sure if we would have made it with a CB pairing of Lovren and Matip or Lovren and Klavan.

08 Nov 2026 10:34:37
Hotshot Hamish.

08 Nov 2026 10:39:16
Showing your age there, Footyfan :)

08 Nov 2026 10:40:39
Luis Amor Rodriguez.

08 Nov 2026 11:17:01
Like Footyfan's recruitment strategy so I'll go Billy the fish.

08 Nov 2026 11:33:46
In 2018 the team was almost complete in other positions. VAN DIJK came to make a team complete.
Now the team us weak in differebt positions.
We need some muscles CM Fabinho like, RB, strong Right wing or left wing that why i like Minteh, AM or no 10.

08 Nov 2026 11:49:30
It says something about the quality of individual players in today's game that I can't think of a player that would make as seismic of an impact as Alisson, Salah, Mane, Robertson or Van Dijk. Maybe one of PSG's full backs on either side would make a difference for us? In midfield Rice is probably the pick of the bunch but he also has certain limitations, maybe Rodri would still be the best fit for what we might want.

On the wing given our current needs, I don't know, Lamine Yamal probably lol.

{Ed025's Note - i would love to know what Rice,s limitations are PB?, i think hes a fantastic player mate..

08 Nov 2026 11:58:26
For me it's a defensive midfielder.
Probably Sadik as I think we can get him.
It would give the midfield more bite, make us harder to play through.
Gives the defence more confidence and the attack more freedom.

08 Nov 2026 12:57:06
Indeed, Ed25. Rodri has a mobility problem because his lack of mobility (esp. with such stiff hips) was pretty glaring prolly till now.

Rice is a brilliant player so I too, want to know what his limitations are. Not saying he has no weaknesses. Just saying they are hard to pick out because his qualities seem to overshadow them.

{Ed025's Note - yeah im a big fan of his as well Oli

08 Nov 2026 13:06:12
Very difficult question to answer as its more than just one position that is a problem.

Caicedo would probably give us the most defensive impact.

Vitinha might give us the ball progression and cohesion in possession.

Still very difficult to win big things with our fullbacks though.

08 Nov 2026 14:01:58
Rice is no Gerrard nor a patch on him so this idolism is bizarre. The game overall has regressed. Quailtys went down on all fronts. Years ago you could name umpteen worldclass midfielders.

08 Nov 2026 15:04:59
If all of our players played to their full potential we're 2 fullbacks and probably 2 midfielders away from challenging.

08 Nov 2026 15:27:11
Rice isn't Gerrard but that's a bit of an unfair bar to compare him to one of the top 3 best midfielder in PREM league history lol

I don't think it's unfair to say that as an all round midfielder rice is probably the best in the Premier League currently.

08 Nov 2026 13:05:32
I think his limitation is that he doesn't play for Liverpool Ed25. We would big up him if he was part of our team.

{Ed025's Note - never a truer word said Taurus..

08 Nov 2026 08:07:28
I hate being negative, but today I can only see one result, a Palace win. They are in terrible form overall and have had a torrid start to the season so it should be straightforward. But I can see another tepid wasteful day in front of goal and a 1-0 Palace win to take us in to the international break.

I want to be positive but the players we have spent a huge amount of money on simply do not work as a team. Poor recruitment is now biting us in the ass.

08 Nov 2026 08:57:16
I see you still have a Fernabache hangover. Try putting the Brighton, Bournmeouth or Brentford result in your mind instead, or even all 3.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion & view point, but I do honestly thank Fowler that my brain isn't wired this negatively because for me everyday would be so miserable.

08 Nov 2026 10:48:00
I'd like Gakpo and Munoz to start on the wings. I fancy us to win ( I always do) but it's never been easy there.

08 Nov 2026 10:54:24
Going for a 4-1 win.

Isak 2, Barcola & Gakpo the other 2.

08 Nov 2026 10:55:47
Bit of a bogey team, it'll be a scrappy hard fought game. A win would be a brilliant result.

08 Nov 2026 11:42:50
Ismaila Sarr is injured, Mateta is suspended, Wharton is out of form, they have pretty much sold all their good defenders, they played a European tie three days ago, the fans are starting to call for the manager's head and they don't exactly have pace in behind, I'm not sure we should be shaking in our boots.

Their best player this season is probably Kamada and Tyrick Mitchell is their top scorer with 2 (in the same match).

08 Nov 2026 12:12:18
I'm going a scrappy hard fought 3-1 to us with a late goal to seal it! But it won't be comfy or pretty to watch.

{Ed025's Note - Palace are a mess BR..4-0 to the reds for me mate..

08 Nov 2026 13:00:58
SzSz8 for me, Brighton was our best and most cohesive perfomance of the season so far esp. in the PL.

We took the fight to them, rode our luck a bit I agree but we played with conviction and efficiency in both boxes. Sure, they had a lot of possession but simply clouldn't hurt us because we set up to nullify them and hit them on the break.

As for the Palace game, I don't do scores nor predictions because I know football games can get mad esp. in that stadium. All I want to see i'd whether this team has some shame on pride esp. after the Ferne game.

We shall see.

08 Nov 2026 16:19:09
@Bristol_Red:

Where did you get your crystal ball?

"I'm going a scrappy hard fought 3-1 to us with a late goal to seal it! But it won't be comfy or pretty to watch."

Any chance you could message me your Lotto picks?

08 Nov 2026 13:22:35
Your speaking like a man full of current confidence Ed 👍.

{Ed025's Note - i thought you would win BR, but your guess was superb mate and i hope you had a bet on it?..

08 Nov 2026 03:58:40
Some people still think we have a chance at the title. I need that delusion in my life.

We probably should focus on both cups as chance for a trophy because the CL and PL are not what we are challenging for.

We haven't really seen much changes in terms of football still no identity i don't know what we play for 90min.

But hopefully ownership change brings a new era for us.
A new day a new dawn
FSG era has been good but more of a what could have been.
Hopefully we look at some right kind of characters for the club starting with midfielders and full backs.

08 Nov 2026 04:20:40
Name one non-fictional person that believes Liverpool can win the title.

{Ed666's Note - I honestly thought we were in with a chance if we’d have beaten Arsenal. I’m being straight with you. Now we got the same chance as winning the premiership this season as Blackburn rovers have

08 Nov 2026 05:46:01
I agree, I did too, but this was posted a week after we lost to Arsenal and Fenerbahce. Not one person alive thinks this team can win the title now.

08 Nov 2026 06:07:45
Are you sure you don't see a difference in terms of how we play? Because I can see big differences that are clear as day. Is this what two losses does to us, I see people here saying we look the same as we did under Slot and I wonder if we're even watching the same games.

Yes we let in three stupid goals under Fenerbahce, but I really don't think that's going to happen again, we're not consistently leaking goals in a systematic way.

08 Nov 2026 06:26:48
Yes because there would not be 2 bad losses if anything had improved in first place. Playing well in 3 games and then regressing back to wasteful no identity football is not improvement. Its rather more concerning because it means the characters in this team can't rally on positive results and results get to their head and they let their levels drop or even worse they aren't fit to give their all week in week out.


So yea you can remain in your dreamland and realise the same by end of year it end of season.
I won't judge iraola because its too early but there isn't daylight between him and slot at the moment. Slot still won the league because he had salah, iraola as it stands looks like wont.

08 Nov 2026 06:46:34
Agree, the difference is clear, we are playing with a greater energy and enthusiasm but the problem is, the players are not good enough.
We have signings such as Wirtz, Frimpong, Kerkez, Barcola who are simply not playing well and some for 15-16 months now. Then you have a midfield that have performed poorly for 18 months plus.
Add to that established players like VVD and Allison who are several levels below their best and are now showing consistent signs of decline.
We have a long way to go yet before the squad is ready to challenge, but the signs are good, Jacquet, Araujo, Ndukwe (when he is back) are excellent signings, Nyoni is playing really good and will get better too, Isak is scoring (I too would like an alternative striker) and he is a proper forward, Barcola I believe will improve and be the player we have seen on the European and world stage.


We must get the midfield and LB/RB positions resolved and we need a striker that can alternate with Isak and cover until Ekitike returns.

08 Nov 2026 06:51:22
Ask the manager and the team and they will tell you they are not too far behind to go on a good run and make up ground on the leaders. They will talk of still being in four competitions and battling on until it's mathematically impossible. They will talk about belief and how the impossible can be achievable.

Ask some fans and they will say that losing a game to Fenebache and Arsenal means all is lost in early November.

08 Nov 2026 07:46:39
People are allowed different opinions of the game Pat.

08 Nov 2026 07:50:15
I thought if we hadve beaten Arsenal we would've got a major boost out of it and been in a title race although still would've thought Arsenal as a whole package good bit ahead of us.
Today's game massive for us, fenerbahce midweek did seem like a hammer blow performance wise, threw it away against mediocre opposition.

Good positive performance + win today stills leaves us having had a good start to season I feel.

08 Nov 2026 08:15:48
Call it delusion but who says it's impracticable?
Go on a 15 winning streak and you lot would change your minds. It's still Nov guys. We are in a good way, that is all that counts at this point.

08 Nov 2026 08:18:59
Again you are just referring to results rather than the way we played. Fenerbahce yes we were terrible and threw the game away, but I think Iraola just got it wrong with team selection. Play your first choice front line (maybe leave Rio there on the right) in their proper positions with Araujo at right back and we probably win that game and Iraola takes off his attackers, Wirtz and Araujo after an hour to save them for Palace.

I do not agree that the Arsenal game was a bad loss, Arsenal put in a magnificent defensive performance to keep us out, and we were just not at the races when it came to finishing the great chances we did get (Macca usually buries that header, and 9 times out of 10 Isak would get a penalty for that). A game against Arsenal is never a game we're going to get loads of chances in (and neither will they against us), you have to score the one or two opportunities you do get.

I have no idea what you are talking about when you talk about 'no identity football', we do have an identity even in these very early days with Iraola, we show signs of the high press penning teams in, but we don't have the fitness or understanding to sustain it for long periods yet. We also show signs of how quickly we can get up the pitch when we transition from a zone to a man to man swarm and win the ball. Most importantly we have shown that we can defend and that we take pride in defending, when teams get in and around our box we have a solid shape and don't look like conceding. The spaces between attack, midfield and defence are much smaller, and as a result our double pivot doesn't look exposed, which is why Macca looks like a player reborn now.

All of this and you say that we don't look like we have changed? I wonder if you just watch the highlights or check the score.

08 Nov 2026 08:40:46
100% agree with that PB I have enjoyed watching our development and there was always going to be ups and downs. I thought the game against Arsenal was a great game which we pushed the current champions hard. I rewatched the full Fernabache game and it's not as bad as seemed to be have written about.

Bad result definitely, but not as bad a performance, they are a part of developing the team and learning, which I think the team and Andoni Iraola will benefit from.

08 Nov 2026 09:48:04
We still have to do well in the league and champions league to show that progression.

And while I'll be surprised if we pulled off the champions league, I'd be less surprised when we won in 2005.

Also while you call some people deluded, with equal measure they can call you a defeatist. Personally, I'm a fan of the never give up mentality that some people show. Defeat will be accepted when someone else is raising the cups. Until then, we just keep going for everything.

08 Nov 2026 09:51:40
Putting aside the s*** show in the week, we have improved defensively. This is in no small part because of Araujo and Jacquet. There is also more urgency going forward and it's not as boring and laborious on the eye, though in some games I honestly haven't noticed any difference to last season.

I've said on other threads that Iraola was never going to come in and flick a switch. I'm still waiting to see the improvement in players that a lot of folk thought would come about. We all know who those players are.

It's going to be an up and down season, like I always expected it would. Hopefully reinforcements in January, though I won't hold my breath.

08 Nov 2026 09:57:47
I've seen teams start worse than us and win the league.

We're not even halfway through the season.
Totally ridiculous to write us off.

08 Nov 2026 10:08:43
It looks like Frimpong could well be going as early as Jan, so if that's the case I do think we'll try and bring a RB in.

Any other movement will probably depend on form and fitness between now and then. No one is nailing down the RW spot so maybe Minteh as well.

08 Nov 2026 10:12:57
Rome, but are you only watching the highlights or checking the score?

08 Nov 2026 10:14:26
Patrick, part from defending better because of better players like Jacquet and araujo there is hardly any difference.

What intensity are you speaking of?
Our attack is disjointed and the midfield is a sham absolute sham we don't press and we don't even pass or keep the ball either. We don't really run either?

So what exactly is this pattern or deep press that you are seeing? If we pressed our running stats would have been better no?

08 Nov 2026 10:19:05
I rarely watch us, JK, as I'm having trouble illegally streaming nowadays. I just go by what I read on that Twitter thing.

Hope you're well, mate.

08 Nov 2026 10:27:02
I think we're miles off a title. Interesting to see fans think we're close.

Come summer we've still not replaced Salah, then you've got VVD & Ali. I genuinely think we're years away.

FSG timing on this sale isn't a coincidence, I think they're looking at it, and decided they can't take us any further.

08 Nov 2026 10:28:32
Same mate, I only watch when John Barnes is playing.

All good here mate. Hope you're well?

Hopefully 3 points today with Digger on the scoresheet and a clean sheet for Grobs.

08 Nov 2026 10:51:52
I still think we can do it. Why wouldn't I? The top 2 are not much better than us just getting favourable shouts.

08 Nov 2026 10:53:52
I've no idea why we've bought Speedie, but hope he proves me wrong.

2-0 today. Jocky with a header and Spackman.

08 Nov 2026 11:06:46
For the anoraks, my post would be factually incorrect, as Spackman left before we signed Speedie.

08 Nov 2026 12:02:40
Lastfanofslot, I think there's been a fair bit written over the last year or two about the whole 'running stats' thing, and the conclusion as I understand it is that running the most doesn't mean much.

Watching the games with my own eyes I can discern that the team put a shift in working for each other pressing, covering and defending. I'm not sure why you don't see that, it does perplex me a bit. Also I'm not sure that we can't pass the ball, to me we don't have as many problems as we did last year progressing the ball from our box to the opposition box, and Iraola has tried different solutions successfully in games. The problem is when we get in the final third we lack ingenuity. I think that will come in time as the team play with one another more under Iraola's instruction.

I think that he has already fixed the most important thing, which is defending. In the Premier League I'm pretty sure we haven't let in a single set piece goal yet? That's huge considering where we were last year. If you can't defend, you won't win anything. The new coach has been in the door for less than a quarter of the season. Maybe let's take consolation in the improvements that we can see week to week? I honestly think that the team looks better in these early stages than I expected them to be.

08 Nov 2026 12:26:07
He hasn't fixed a thing. Its just better players. That brighton game we won was just outright better players saving the day. Brighton carved us like butter. Just didn't had finishing that day.

08 Nov 2026 13:02:49
He hasn't fixed anything".

Now I know this is delusional as heck.

07 Nov 2026 19:40:39
I just need to get this out and know it will never happen but I can't help thinking the Chesney Hawkes song 'I am the one and only' could be adapted to be a song for Nyoni. I feel better already.

07 Nov 2026 19:58:04
See now you can enjoy your Saturday night KD.

07 Nov 2026 21:22:28
Combined transfer fees for Nyoni, Ngumoha in 2024 equals £3.5 million, well north of £80 million today?

Rio needs to score goals now like the horror Sterling did at a similar age.

07 Nov 2026 23:11:53
Move your decimal point three positions to the left 007 so it can reflect the percentage level your comments resonate with the general consensus.

08 Nov 2026 02:07:02
Rio and Trey and Koumas and one or two more of the youngsters need to focus on improving their performance and levels of consistency, first and foremost.

08 Nov 2026 11:20:49
Made me laugh that KD7 "we've got Trey Nyoni, nobody we'd rather see" 🤪.

08 Nov 2026 13:03:56
Strange thread.

07 Nov 2026 18:44:21
Hi Eds do you think Gapko will go in Jan. We seem well stacked with left sided players now. The plan must have been to sell Gapko when dumb and dumber were making the transfers but I guess as we didn't get a right sided winger in we hung on to him.

Can't help feeling we need a proper right winger although perhaps Rio could do a job but I think we need another option perhaps Minteh. Woukd also like to see the addition of a number 6 but I know Jan isn't the best window to buy.

{Ed001's Note - I think he will see out the season, at least. Crazy to sell the best attacking player mid-season.}

07 Nov 2026 19:09:40
Don't you find him extremely frustrating in the final third and laboured off the ball?

07 Nov 2026 20:00:26
If Gakpo is your best attacking player and you achieve Champions League qualification you have done a Leicester in 2016.

07 Nov 2026 21:27:59
Though his performances of late have not been fantastic and his refusal to play the early ball is extraordinarily frustrating, without his contributions this season we'd be battling it out with United in the bottom half. He has been absolutely key, there's no chance he's going anywhere atm.

07 Nov 2026 22:04:20
" Congratulations" to Nottingham Forest on beating a league 2 side, and Maresca for finally getting the best out of Rory Delap, which has pushed man United into the bottom three.

07 Nov 2026 22:16:39
Oops Liam Delap.

07 Nov 2026 22:41:30
I never want to see us not win, nor Chelsea get any result, but just for one weekend a draw, villa turning them over and a Sunderland win sees the Mancs bottom of the league!

I'll take the neighbours being above us for now just to see that!

07 Nov 2026 23:18:32
Edd001 that's crazy to think given the players we've bought and the money invested upfront.

{Ed001's Note - I just don't know if we bought well.}

08 Nov 2026 07:56:48
Ed001 do You include Wirtz in the attacking players?

{Ed001's Note - no because he is mostly covering the defence when CGravy or Szobo play.

07 Nov 2026 15:42:56
Ed01 - hope your well mate

Just spent an excruciating few hours down at Ashton Gate and the talk again is of another change in manager down here.
The Stevie G rumours have re surfaced and
Looking what Frank Lampard has done at Coventry & bearing in mind they were on their arse when he took over do you reckon the job at Ashton Gate would be a good move for Gerrard?

{Ed001's Note - yes I do. He needs the drop down. And can you imagine being one of their players & getting Stevie G taking your training?

07 Nov 2026 18:29:24
It's a brilliant set up down there Ed, super ground and top class training facilities but small time mentality by the board time & time again!

He'd give the place a massive boost, unfortunately he'd want to do it his way without interference from the board which is what tends to happen down there

Thanks for the reply Ed.

{Ed001's Note - a good ground and training facilities is a big draw for players and coaches, maybe they just need to realise what they have?}

07 Nov 2026 20:03:08
Always think Stevie talks sense when he's on the tele. None of the hyperbolic sh!t£.Mightn't be an Enrique but could still be a decent coach. And like Ed said imagine playing for Stevie G.

07 Nov 2026 23:20:14
Nearly every young English player still says their idol was stevie g. The two bellingham brothers mentioned stevie as their idol. He's an icon.

08 Nov 2026 13:05:48
Icons don't make good coaches or managers often. Too much evidence of this throughout history.

{Ed666's Note - King Kenny, Pep, Enrique, Zidane, Deschamps, Beckenbeur. Zoff, Heynckes, Cruyff and Ancelotti would disagree.

07 Nov 2026 17:21:54
Looks like the PGMOL have already picked the Premier League winners.

07 Nov 2026 17:45:23
Ah what happened now?

07 Nov 2026 17:05:19
Damn looks like Arsenal in their lucky era of no other superstar manager

Will run away with the league so easily

Hopefully next season lfc will be in a much fitter and stronger position.

07 Nov 2026 17:23:34
This time last week we were in the title chase for some.

07 Nov 2026 17:26:54
Don't think they'll run away with it.

07 Nov 2026 17:41:48
Grinding out results while not playing great? Hard to look past them.

07 Nov 2026 18:00:15
City look weaker then you'd expect.
Can't see anyone able to compete with Arsenal. So fortunate they've got a decent team whilst the rest of the top teams are poor.

07 Nov 2026 18:19:42
What if they're just grinding out results Irish while playing as good as they can? ont get me wrong I think they'll walk the league because of that defence but you won't keep winning games 1-0.just no one else is consistent enough.

07 Nov 2026 19:14:03
Best squad in the league.

07 Nov 2026 20:04:20
Us or Arsenal?

07 Nov 2026 20:37:57
We sacked a manager who schooled Arteta to win the league for someone who was supposed to make our players fit and play attractive football.
Meanwhile Arsenal wining the league without playing the so called "attractive football".

08 Nov 2026 06:15:48
Arsenal do admittedly have the best squad in the league for what they want to do and how they want to play. If Rice got injured, Bruno G can play that role without many problems. They only lack a bit of quality up front, Havertz, Merino and Gyokeres is hardly a frightening set of center forwards. We have a bunch of players who on paper form an excellent squad but were bought without a very coherent idea of how they are supposed to fit together. The difference is that Arsenal have had years to put that squad together, and Iraola is only just beginning his journey in figuring out who fits with what he wants and what he doesn't.

The bright side of it all is that we are already seeing very positive glimpses of certain players who look like they will be the foundation of our future and will likely be stars in the making, Jacquet and Nyoni, and Munoz, who will be a very useful squad player and could blossom into something even better than that, Rio of course could be a superstar if he irons out a few chinks in his game. To have a young English midfielder who can pass and has positional awareness like Nyoni, that's already saved us 100m plus if he continues his development.

08 Nov 2026 06:21:57
Ah yes, a return to the good old days "One nil to the Arsenal, one nil to the Arsenal" and repeat every match, every week .

08 Nov 2026 13:07:53
If Arsenal have already won the title then, the standardsof the PL is in deep, deep, doodoo.

{Ed666's Note - maybe it is?

07 Nov 2026 11:41:39
Have faith.

07 Nov 2026 12:12:21
George Michael tribute act?

07 Nov 2026 12:21:06
I agree mate

Going off the meltdown over the Result midweek, it's a must win for Iraola. I reckon he'll be under pressure from the fans if he doesn't win.

On here was wild after Fenerbahce, usually it's me sticking in the knife to the Club after a poor performance, but the reaction here actually shocked me.

We have to win, the manager will start to feel it, he's come from what is usually considered the smallest club in the Premier League in Bournemouth, to what is usually considered the Biggest club in England, the levels of expectation have jumped immensely.

For Iraola over anyone, it's a Must win game.

07 Nov 2026 13:09:11
I don't think there is any pressure on the manager from the fans yet, maybe some from behind the scenes to play the expensive players.

07 Nov 2026 13:15:18
Don't think it was to bad on here. Was a lot worse last year when we lost in Turkey.

07 Nov 2026 13:27:01
I am definitely chalking this one off to a bad day at the office. The attitude of the senior players was poor and I hope that it will be an outlier.

Crystal Palace is the bread and butter. A must win.

07 Nov 2026 13:30:20
No pressure on the manager at all. Well, apart from the odd moron on here and other platforms. It was always going to be a stop start season. I said before a ball was kicked that he didn't have a magic wand, even though there were some who thought he'd fix everything. It was never going to happen.

07 Nov 2026 16:11:55
Top midfielder in January gives the team a huge boost. I'd like two but not realistic.

07 Nov 2026 16:41:33
There is no pressure on the manager whatsoever other than the natural pressure that rightly accompanies the Liverpool job. Liverpool fans are generally an informed bunch, and we can see very clearly that the manager is the least of our issues.

07 Nov 2026 17:04:33
The pressure is going to be relative to expectations. I don't think many expected a top two finish, but most fans expect as a minimum top 4/5, a run in the CL to the quarters at least, maybe something in the FA cup. Some fans probably also expect an improvement in our relative standing against the top two, and obviously a much more attacking style of play with more goals and good chances being created.

At the moment we're twelve points behind Arsenal, which isn't an improvement on last season, and we're not scoring more goals or creating better chances than we were. We're a bit better defensively in the league which is probably something we least expected.

I'd say we need to show more signs over the next six weeks or so of being able to consolidate top three or four, as well as some tangible improvement in attacking play and goals.

If we go into the New Year with no real improvement from where we are in those things there'll be a lot of pressure on the Jan window, and the club generally including Iraola.

That's not something we should need to be contemplating as it's just rinse and repeat of where we were at the beginning of this year with Arne, Richard Hughes and co. I think the owners will be thinking the exact same.

07 Nov 2026 17:11:44
Good win tomorrow, get us back into the Champions League spots and it will have been a decent start to the season. Only essential is getting top 5.A domestic Cup

on top of that would be a bonus. Hopefully match last seasons CL run. Get to January, get some of the longer term injured players back and maybe a signing and we should see improvement.

07 Nov 2026 17:53:46
Sorry @Rome, But what should Adoni Irola fix? His predecessor won the league and finished inside the CL places and left a very good squad. Other than "players intensity" what should Irola fix at LFC?
If he doesn't win the league then that's a failure. Isn't it?

08 Nov 2026 02:04:33
Most fans expectations in the summer were a top 4 finish and entertaining football this season. We were highly unlikely to be battling for the title. i'd say Iraola is meeting those expectations while implementing his tactics and philosophy. There were always going to be hiccups in his first season just no need for people to wet the bed when they happen.