Liverpool banter 6

13 May 2026 20:23:51
Ed001 where is your head with Slot at the minute you think he stays or goes?
I hope we secure champions league football this weekend by hook or by crook and then have a really bad performance last day of the season to hopefully hammer the final nail in his coffin ⚰️.

{Ed001's Note - I am still hopeful he leaves.}

13 May 2026 20:35:44
That is ed001 saying i don't want to jinx it haha

13 May 2026 20:46:55
Grino, it's somewhat disappointing that you wish for a "really bad performance" the last day of the season. I'm fairly certain that the decision makers have already made up their minds regarding whether he stays or goes, and won't be basing their actions on how we perform that day.

13 May 2026 21:19:54
Rome, I wish I had your confidence, and I hope he goes because another season like this would be awful.
But Tweedledee and Tweedledum, I'm not sure what they are going to do.
But if there was a worse reaction from the crowd than the Chelsea game, I think them above might step in.
But me wishing for it, I don't think makes too much difference, Rome, because it's been bad for 36 league games this season, I can't see much changing.


His barefaced lying about Rio last weekend was awful. When he said he knew what the crowd's reaction was going to be, well it did not look like that when he took him off, then to come up with that crap.

13 May 2026 22:06:16
@Rome, I think / hope you are right. Even if we win our last two games, I still think the evidence of the season is overwhelming that we aren't playing well.

As an example with numbers, I asked my wife to pick three numbers between 1 and 36 and then 3 numbers between 1 and 80 and then added 15 to the second number to get a reasonable length. If you take the following:

11 9 - 24
23 52 - 67
31 29 - 44

With the first number being match day, and the second and third being a 15 minute period in the game, I'd say the chances would be fairly high that you would get a pretty good view of how we have been playing consistently poor football.

I haven't had a chance to look at the games yet, but I probably will - it's hard not to now that the random numbers have been picked. 😀😀

13 May 2026 22:29:35
Alan Turing over here.

14 May 2026 09:26:41
I didn't understand any of that. 🤣

14 May 2026 09:45:11
Holy Jesus, WDW, you must be on the shrooms! Or perhaps I am!!. 🤔😶🤫🥳💥🫵🫵🤣🤣🤣🫨😵‍💫

13 May 2026 20:17:40
We could always poach Mourinho away from Real. 🤣🤣

13 May 2026 21:16:05
Please, don't even joke about that... FSG aren't that vapid. 😱

13 May 2026 22:08:19
Maureen had his day years ago, and even in his day, he relied heavily on pots of money to buy whoever he wanted.

13 May 2026 22:30:12
He'd do better than Slot.

14 May 2026 05:45:26
I'd have Mourinho over Slot.

14 May 2026 06:46:06
I'd take Mourinho any day over Slot, at this current stage I'd take Sean Dyche.

14 May 2026 09:27:55
I know that is a joke, but Mourinho really would kill us. 😅

13 May 2026 20:09:21
Someone posted about replacing Alison should that happen, but the list of who to replace with missed a GK that I think is suited.

Not finished article by any means, but improving every game, can kick too, young.
His name is Joan Garcia at Barca, only joined them this summer from Espanyol (if remember correctly).

I really think he could do a good job, over time.

13 May 2026 20:32:28
Robin Risser looks very good.

13 May 2026 20:44:39
Garcia is very very good. No chance they sell him.

13 May 2026 21:05:05
Maybe we should try re-signing Kelleher, worth testing the waters.

13 May 2026 22:31:39
Did we ever put in a buy back clause on Khelleher?

13 May 2026 19:54:11
Alonso to Chelsea.

Liverpool sticking with Slot. (Baffles me)

Get Edwards & Hughes Out.

Dark times ahead reds.

Flo.

13 May 2026 20:09:35.
Guide to becoming an ITK.

Write any old crap you see on Twatter.

Space it out plenty.

Never cite sources.

Make it more convincing with a sign-off.

Boom.

13 May 2026 20:11:15
Ok, Flo, another ITK not ITK sigh.

13 May 2026 20:11:59
Bringing the nerds back was an absolute howler from everyone involved. Can't wait until they're all gone. I'd rather have Jorg Schmadke activating random release clauses while he's on the ale in Ibiza.

13 May 2026 20:14:46
Another load of rubbish.

13 May 2026 20:26:35
Thanks for the rumour.

Just an FYI, nothing has been decided yet, but keep posting. 👍

13 May 2026 20:28:35
It's getting so tedious now! Everyone is IDK! lol I'm just waiting to see what happens, and will pay more attention here once the same posts aren't repeated every 20 seconds!

13 May 2026 21:18:20
Ok Ron, if you say so.

13 May 2026 22:13:06
Once again, I'd say that when contributors start a new thread or reply to a post, the pop up box should automatically have three words at the start of the post that are protected and can't be deleted. The three words should be 'In my opinion'. Nothing wrong with opinions, but the tendency to read opinions as facts just winds people up (including me).

13 May 2026 18:24:04
Hello, I never post but read all your comments at least once a day (thanks for all of them). If Slot leaves us this season then I am sure we will remember his first year a lot more than his second and if we are all honest, when he signed we would have took a title and champs qualification in first 2 years.
But due to his playing style and obvious reluctance to change I would like to thank him for his service, wish him all the best and give him our love and appreciation and let him leave us with his head held high.

He deserves that not only cos of last season but because we are Liverpool and we set our bar higher than the rest.

I only hope Edwards and Hughes's self preservation doesn't stop them from making a change. Having the 2 people deciding the fate of a manager who came in, agreeing to give them full control of signings etc against someone who could change the dynamic and potentially cost them their very lucrative positions is not ideal is it?

Cammo

13 May 2026 19:19:19
I'd remove Slot from our banner of iconic managers, he doesn't deserve to be on it. The man is a fraud.

13 May 2026 19:49:20
If Slot is a fraud for finishing 5th, then I have some bad news for you regarding Rafa Benitez, Jurgen Klopp, Bob Paisley, and Bill Shankly. Funny story. Shankly won the league, and then finished 7th the following season. I wonder if the best supporters in the world were calling him a fraud back then.

13 May 2026 20:04:58
I doubt they were Arnie.

13 May 2026 20:21:40
It's not the results, it's the performances, it's the disconnect to the fans and the city, it's the total lack of respect to the squad and youth players. It's the inability to motivate our players to get up for big games (cus they mean nothing to him). Now you tell me, can you say the same bout Shankly?? I don't think so.

13 May 2026 22:23:11
I'm ok'd and my memory is dodgy, and it was different times, but I don't recall anyone bad mouthing managers back in the 60s, Shanks, Sir Alf, Matt Busby, Jock Stein, Harry Catterick, Ron Greenwood, Joe Mercer, Bill Nicholson, as examples, were all respected.

The one that does stand out was Don Revie - he was respected but probably a bit more grudgingly. It changed in the late 60s when it started to become a bit more tribal and towards the end of the decade violence started (or restarted apparently) amongst (unsegregated) fans.

13 May 2026 22:32:37
What Jimjim said.

13 May 2026 23:07:48
Arnie did any of them that finished low after a title win have £450 million doubled up the wall?

A title winning team strengthened to finish forth due to inept fitness and tactics?

13 May 2026 23:08:25
Didn't Don Revie leave the England job to take some lucrative one abroad, can't remember who team though, that's why he wasn't liked.

13 May 2026 23:39:20
I'll remember this time for how emotionally immature and incapable many adults are at having coherent conversations beyond one variable.

13 May 2026 23:59:05
Strom, I think Revie was disliked before then. There were accusations that he tried to bribe officials when he was Leeds manager. Pretty sure some players in that team got accused of trying to bribe opp players as well.

14 May 2026 00:17:55
WYR.. I knew his team Leeds wasn't liked because of how they played, but didn't know about the bribing though. But did you see the interview with him n Clough on the TV.. a proper old skool.debate, no holding back, fascinating stuff.

14 May 2026 01:46:06
I have seen that interview a few times over the years. It was excellent. Fair play to Revie for doing it, if I was him I wouldn't have. Clough was funny and brutal at the same time back then.
Don't know if I am remembering this right, but did Clough use to go on Match of the Day around that time?

13 May 2026 17:19:19
As much as we’re hoping for a change of management in the Summer I think we all have to accept that it’s looking increasingly likely that Slot will be given another transfer window. Last roll of the dice, hit the ground running or be sacked by the November international break with an interim brought in until a new manager is found.

So, what exactly is Slot’s plan for next season? His integration of Kerkez & Frimpong hasn’t filled us with confidence that they are suited to this season’s set up. So is it up to them to adapt or is there a change of system being worked on for next season to get the best out of them?
Also, what was the thinking in buying Ekitike & Isak who I suppose are 2 number 9 types….

Play 1 or both?? Where does Wirtz fit in??
This season we have seen far too many square pegs in round holes.
Has Slot provided the powers that be with his blueprint for next season, because this season has seriously brought into question his ability to find a system that compliments his squad?
Why are Edwards & Hughes convinced by him??

13 May 2026 18:28:31
I suppose it's that if one of our No.9 types are injured, out of form or in need of a rest, we have another No.9 type ready to go.

13 May 2026 18:35:08
I'm not convinced by Slot, Hughes or Edwards. And if we continue down this path for another season, it'll be FSG I'll be pointing the finger to.

We're the most negative, boring, soul destroying team in Europe. And we've done nothing in 9 months to change it.

13 May 2026 19:25:38
Not sure why everyone is hung up on Slot getting another transfer window. He didn't get backed in January, why would they back him in the summer?

13 May 2026 19:57:13
@Retire, I agree. So essentially, the club is saying they back Slot all the way whereas when we needed a player or two (at CB esp.) and Guehi was right there ready to sign, they did diddly squat. Really?

Also, they back him so much, they do not have a contract extension on the table? imo, people should not allow themselves to be tricked here.

If it doesn't make sense the first time you read or heard this stuff, it's not gonna make sense the next 5 times you ponder over it.

13 May 2026 20:34:22
Nothing will become clear until after the last game or if we get champs league qualification in our next game.

13 May 2026 22:43:20
Slot's plan for next season doesn't matter because he won't be here.

Rodgers 2.0, worst run of form in 70 years, should have been sacked in November, and everyone knows it. He would have been sacked if Stevie wasn't the only alternative. He wasn't backed in January, he hasn't received an extension, and our original No.

1 target is now available but won't be if we don't sign him immediately.

The entire board of execs would have to be simultaneously suffering from a case of brain-eating amoeba to keep Slot on.

13 May 2026 17:14:12
Anyone watched The Bus on Netflix? About the French fiasco in 2010 World Cup. It's a bit thin, and seems to be entirely based around the charismatic Evra's pov. But that French manager seems like a piece of work.

And, interesting, I think, that all the blowback from the French public fell upon the black players. Something we also saw in the UK after that failed penalty shoot-out.

I find that really depressing.

13 May 2026 17:47:30
Can't stand Evra, no thanks.

13 May 2026 18:21:41
With you, Chewy, I can't stand Evra.

13 May 2026 18:33:41
The fallout fell upon "the black players" because the players who were causing the problems in that particular case just happened to be black. Evra and Anelka have been pieces of work their whole careers. People don't single them out because they're black. They single them out because they're always pains in the backside.

{Ed001's Note - that is so unfair on Anelka, he was not a pain in the backside, he just asked questions about the tactics, trying to understand them. As a kid he had a few issues early on but he grew out of them. If he had been white, he would not have got the label of being a pain in the backside. He did nothing compared to Frank Lampard, for example, yet we are always told what a nice guy he is. It is clear Anelka is singled out for being black and you are just jumping on a bandwagon out of pure ignorance.}

13 May 2026 18:40:34
There is a good programme about how the French gave Qatar their vote for the World Cup, n they got in exchange a deal worth billions of fighter jets, n PSG got new rich owners.

13 May 2026 18:36:06
Evra is a right gimp. I'll give that one a miss

13 May 2026 19:38:48
Evra was a player we all wanted. We hate him because he chose Man U. I just think we are all guilty of assuming the worst of black players. I kind of think that is why Pele is now routinely discounted as the greatest player of all time, which he really was.
None of us mean it, but we view black players under a harsher microscope.

{Ed025's Note - speak for yourself MS, i certainly dont judge a player by the colour of his skin...you are insulting peoples intelligence if you think that..

13 May 2026 19:50:37
Well said edd1

13 May 2026 20:01:56
Can't agree there, Monster. Pele is rightly touted as the greatest player of all time by a massive majority of fans & ex players from that generation, and his colour doesn't come into it.
I only disagree on that because for me Maradona was the greatest of all time - just my opinion & colour is irrelevant.

13 May 2026 20:11:39
Spot on, Ed. @Babbity, please do not be fooled by media propaganda re: Anelka specifically. I lived that fiasco in real time and the then pathetic manager Raymond Domenech was such a pariah in the media even before the tournament, it was ridiculous.

Evra on the other hand? I agree. The less said the better.

The whole "Anelka was the problem" was something completely made up. And you know who did that? Domenech himself. He would later admit that years after and never apologized for how he dragged Anelka's name in the mud to protect his reprehensible conduct as the France manager during that WC in SA.

Sadly, nobody gave Anelka the benefit of the doubt because for years he had been tarnished as the "Enfant Terrible" of French football. I lived in France in the the Pà's into the 2000's and Anelka's image was destroyed from the day he decided to leave PSG for Arsenal at age 17.

Then, his move to RM was a shambles and he got the blame for all that happend to him there by that RM changing room that hated his guts. They blamed him for things he had nothing to do with. Later, the truth came out but of course, it was too late.

Know this: If the French media have a bee in their bonnet about you because you have the guts to speak up for yourself and not tow the line as "un bon garcon" (a good little boy) esp. if you are non white, you are done.Finished. Over. It is open season on you and they will never let up for years.

P/S: They did the same thing to Benzema and Nasri, as well. Now what do both and Anelka have in common? I'll let you figure that out.

13 May 2026 20:37:16
Monster, my dislike of Evra goes back a few years to when he was a pundit at one of the World Cups. I remember him being sat by a female pundit, and him basically saying, and I'm paraphrasing, "you know what you're talking about for a woman".

My dislike of Utd doesn't extend to everyone who's ever played for them, and it certainly doesn't extend to their skin tone.

13 May 2026 21:49:02
Rome, I now remember that and it was clearly what made me doubt his account of what happened in 2010. I thought I was just randomly disliking him, but I remember that moment - and thought yuk.

13 May 2026 23:42:57
"People don't single them out because they're black. They single them out because they're always pains in the backside".

so black people are always a pain in the backside? lol

If that's the default starting point then perhaps take a step back and have a breathe

lol

14 May 2026 06:31:21
Can I ask what Frank Lampard did?

I've never brought into the whole nice guy image with him. He comes across as being completely up himself, and from what I've read is a huge Tory.

{Ed001's Note - there is a huge list of them, the sex tapes, making fun of a group of Americans at a hotel on the day of 9/11 about what happened, and numerous other things. Lots were covered up about him and he was heavily disciplined repeatedly at West Ham and Chelsea.}

14 May 2026 17:28:47
@Faith, this is how you know the anti-black propaganda has worked.

Sadly, Babbity didn't even know he had posted the actual stereotype narrative used to dehumanize and silence black and non-white people in the society whenever said people dare to stand up and speak up for themselves.

Really sad.

13 May 2026 16:42:31
With all these ITK posts and the contradictions, it got me thinking. This is what I have concluded:

1. Carra's source is someone close to Edwards. His knowledge about Alonso, and the previous Isak, Semenyo claims is what I base this on.
2. Robbo's source is someone close to Hughes. The insistence on Iraola leads me to think that.
3. Thefields I think already mentioned sometime ago that his sources are agents, and not someone from the club per se.


4. With VG, I feel his source is more distant and probably someone from the media team. Also explains why he keeps on hearing things so quickly and often different things.

For all the new ITKs, unfortunately I don't have enough data to make any predictions about your sources. Don't consider this as me undermining you.

Lastly, no I don't live in Bakers Street!

13 May 2026 17:17:49
My guess is that all the ITKs don't have direct sources at all, as that could lose someone their job. I just think they are superb analysts, who work out what is most likely to happen.

No shame in that. And their analysis is more often right than wrong.

13 May 2026 17:22:52
Look football news and secrets travel ways you won't even believe. For ex I can give you a complete rundown of every player on Man City's radar via a friend who sits in Dubai and works for them.
So the source does not have to be close to club, he needs to be close to business folks that handle these discussions with club.



Didn't a guy here who used to work in accounts for LFC, or his source, nail a few transfers down to the amounts? (Akira or something).

13 May 2026 17:38:28
Cafu, for interest's sake, mate, do let us know!
Interested to see what our rivals are looking to do this summer!

13 May 2026 17:49:42
Didn't Carra already say his source was a player and/or someone very close to a player?

13 May 2026 19:30:36
Carra and the fields to me seem legit enough maybe don't have direct contacts with their hirearchy but they have some sort of source none the less.

The remaining "ITKs" the jury for me is majorly out, they often contradict themselves never mind other ITK's the true ITK was ED2 since his untimely passing this site has become the Wild West with all these people claiming they are ITK, when clearly they are not, then get all excited if you challenge them and claim they never said they were ITK despite claiming in their posts they are - contradictions .

I love this site as it is the Wild West, grown men literally throwing dummies out the pram on a daily basis is super entertaining. People claiming to be ITK for attention also is super entertaining.

14 May 2026 02:24:49
It was Akira. Iirc, he called both the Diaz and Gakpo transfers before it happened because he noticed the movement in funds and matched it to the valuations banded about in the media. He has stopped posting, though, and there was a fake for a period of time trying to capitalise on his absence. Akira2.0 or something he was called. He has since gone though.

13 May 2026 16:31:25
Couple of things: whose decision was it to let Elliot leave on loan without a replacement brought in? I'm a big fan of Harvey Elliot and he will be like a new signing for us next season with a point to prove.

I rewatched the League Cup win against Chelsea and the level of commitment and effort put in by the kids and also their tactical awareness and confidence on the ball puts our current squad to shame.

There was more passion from our physios and kit man on the sideline that day than our entire current coaching staff all season.

13 May 2026 16:47:43
Wonder what has changed. 🤔

13 May 2026 16:58:45
We probably didn't feel the need to replace a player that only wanted to leave because he didn't get much game time.

13 May 2026 17:10:33
Slot made it clear Elliot is not in his plans, so they probably didn't feel the need to replace someone who would not have played anyway. Another example of poor squad management by Slot and co.

13 May 2026 17:19:16
Elliott needs to find himself a club where he can actually play. He isn't good enough for us.

13 May 2026 17:41:39
Harvey's good enough for how he's been used nearly all of his time at LFC. A squad player who can come on and inject energy against tired legs. He made 28 appearances in his last season, with his 18 Premier League appearances averaging about 20 mins each.

I think about where Harvey is in his career. If he's happy with that, I wouldn't mind him staying at all, but can't see him being a regular starter for us.

13 May 2026 20:14:05
And yet Slot complains he doesn't have enuff players whereas the ones that are there who actually thrived with us like Elliott and Maconnell were driven out by him.

As for Elliott, we should never have let him go, just like McConnell. I've said it before and I'll keep saying it.

14 May 2026 02:28:40
Has Harvey really been all that good for us, though? I remember when the deal was done most were happy or at least alright that he was leaving. The main sentiment was that he isn't good enough and would never be good enough to be a starter for us.

No one was calling for a replacement for him then, unlike with Diaz. Hindsight is great, but I hope people stop acting like it was an obvious thing to do when it happened.