Liverpool banter 10

22 Mar 2026 19:31:47
Such little noise. Think he stays again.

Massive clear out in the summer hopefully with minimum Hughes and Slot gone. Hopefully Edwards too.

Genuinely don't think we will be in Champions League next season with Slot in charge till the end of the season but what can you do. Only hope.

22 Mar 2026 19:55:35
I said last week, Davey, it's all part of the plan.

Nobody on this earth knows more about that PSG team than Arne Slot.

He's completely and utterly obsessed with them, and the whole season has come to this moment where he will conquer the French.

Problem is, that slime ball Trent will knock us out in the semis. 😂

22 Mar 2026 20:26:42
The only French he's conquering is a bottle of Calvados on his latest Dutch jaunt.

22 Mar 2026 18:37:57
Today Spurs had three shots on target at home and got battered 3-0 by a team that started beneath them.

They had five shots on target in the second half alone at Anfield last weekend.

We knew that result last weekend was bad. That Forest result somehow made it look even more dreadful.

22 Mar 2026 19:47:24.
Football doesn't work like that, Wassa. Spurs came to Anfield under no pressure because everyone expected them to get spanked, which piled the pressure on us.

Today, Spurs were at home in a relegation 6-pointer, having had 2 reasonably decent results in the 2 games before, so they were under pressure to win.



The situation was totally different, which had an enormous impact on the game. Psychology is very important in any sport.

22 Mar 2026 20:00:15
Of course they were under pressure. They are in a relegation fight, big time!

22 Mar 2026 20:26:12
The situation was totally different, Varry, because Forest defended better than we did.

That Spurs team, with most of the squad missing and low on confidence, should have come to Anfield and received nothing but a pasting.

When we went in front, they were all over the shop defensively. We should have killed the game then. The second-half performance invited the result we got.



That second-half performance against Spurs was one of the most insipid, uninspiring halves of football I've ever seen.

On Wednesday, Galatasaray had one shot on target all game. Spurs should have been despatched in the same manner, and would have been, had the same effort and energy been matched in both games.

22 Mar 2026 20:29:04
That's all well and good, VB, and I don't disagree, but that doesn't explain Wolves, Brighton, Burnley, Leeds, etc., etc. It's no good putting a silk hat on a pig.

22 Mar 2026 20:39:42
Varry, what are you smoking, pal? Spurs were already under massive pressure coming to Anfield. They've been on a relentless downward spiral, players boo'd off the pitch in a number of games, fans leaving early.

They lost 4 of their last 5 and were barely hovering just 1 point above relegation when they played us. Exactly what part of that do you define as being "under no pressure"?

22 Mar 2026 21:20:05
What Irish Rover said.

22 Mar 2026 21:22:40
Clueless answers, guys. I wasn't talking about our performance, I was just saying that the circumstances were different.

Spurs were expected to lose at Anfield by everyone, so they had nothing to lose. It was a free hit. How many times have we seen it when a team is given no chance, and so the favourites underperform and the underdog find something to get a result?

I didn't say we were good, for God's sake, we quite clearly weren't.



Spurs were then expected to get the result at home to Forest, so it's a different pressure. If you don't understand that, then I can't help you I'm afraid.

22 Mar 2026 21:55:10
Likewise, Varry, if you can't understand that we allowed Spurs to play in a game we should dominate, we can't help you either, mate.

For "pressure" free performances like you mentioned, I'd refer you to the Wolves game. They defended for their lives and played with a confidence that didn't match their league position.

That is the sort of free hit you are referring to. In those circumstances, you have to meet that challenge (which we failed at).

That wasn't the case with the Spurs result. Spurs didn't have to really do anything. We were just utter crap.

22 Mar 2026 22:17:07
Kinda crazy to see Spurs just a point above relegation. It's almost like sacking their manager didn't work out.

22 Mar 2026 22:21:32
Wassa, did I not say the favourites underperform? Do I need to spell it out for you?

We were crap because we thought we'd win easily. They were there for the taking, but they gained confidence because we were so crap and ended up getting something from the game.

It was different to them playing Forest at home in front of their own fans when they're expected to win.

The mentality is totally different for them, and that affects the way they play.

Why does everyone get so defensive whenever anyone doesn't just say yeah, we are so bad and Slot, Hughes and Edwards should all be sacked. It's pathetic, it really is.

It's like dealing with petulant children.

22 Mar 2026 23:09:20
The irony isn't lost on you, is it, referring to people as petulant children when you refer to other people's opinions as "clueless" and condescendingly talk down to others.

It's very sweet of you to offer to spell it out for me, though.

"Spurs came to Anfield under no pressure because everyone expected them to get spanked, which piled the pressure on us."

That is fundamentally flawed.

The expectation on any Liverpool team is to win pretty much every home game. There is no more or less pressure on the team one week to the next, just because the visiting team is likely to get battered.

You are confusing overconfidence and feeling pressure.

They are two very different things.

Of course, teams who are "expected" to win can often play at a lower level because they think they can turn up and win. The Spurs result was not that, though, and it certainly wasn't the result of any extra pressure.

I'd argue it's more pathetic to try and find some psychological angle to try and justify a lifeless duck egg of a performance.

As for Spurs, I couldn't really give a rat's ass about whether they bottled it at home. The point I was trying to make was that we allowed a dreadful Spurs team to have decent chance after chance. That's an us problem.

22 Mar 2026 23:14:54
Sometimes VB you should just stop after one post. Please.

23 Mar 2026 01:15:42
Lads and lasses, can we spit fire but with the warmth of a mother's hug? :D

23 Mar 2026 06:32:58
Why would Liverpool think they would win easily? Have you seen our results, home and away? Sorry, but you talk half talk some nonsense.

23 Mar 2026 06:58:06
Beckers peckers the condescending plonker has returned. The petulant child who got triggered because there were adverts on the site.

We'll be getting another battle cry speech of him leaving the site again soon.

It's not an airport mate you don't need to announce departures. Nobody cares.

22 Mar 2026 18:31:31
After much thought, I've come to the conclusion that our board are doing right by sticking with Slot.

After being outplayed today, Arsen-hole are still in 3 competitions, which are the same 3 that we are in. And they won't be sacking Arseteta, and so we should stick with Slot as well.

22 Mar 2026 19:24:03
There's a lot of Arse going on there, JLC.

22 Mar 2026 19:28:31
I blame autocorrect, Rome.

22 Mar 2026 20:30:40
I'm going with tongue in cheek, JLC.

22 Mar 2026 21:00:14
Good one, Red Flyer.

22 Mar 2026 21:06:46
Well, it's that or he's swiped Arne's Calvados.

22 Mar 2026 22:18:21
Good that Arsenal stuck with Arteta. They aren't everyone's cup of tea, but, at the end of the day, they are likely to win at least the Prem, have been in the final of the least important cup, and are well in the running for the other two.
Good job.

22 Mar 2026 21:30:07
JLC what are you smoking? Slot certainly needs the boot along with his coaches they have been awful how bad would you let them get before your brain kicked in and you sacked them?

23 Mar 2026 00:22:19
We're not in three competitions, though. We won't win the league. City & PSG will batter us in the FA Cup and Champions League. Season is over.

23 Mar 2026 01:16:22
I guess I don't look at life that way, Vik.

22 Mar 2026 18:27:38
Hello, very long time reader since the Makiavela (sic) days, first time poster. If this is to be Slots' final season and is off in the summer, how would fans feel about his legacy amongst the greats? Even as a league-winning manager, I can't imagine him making it onto many banners with the likes of Shanks, Paisley, Dalglish, Klopp.

I just can't see him being remembered as much more than an anomaly/stopgap.

22 Mar 2026 19:28:15
He's already on banners, Bpoolred.

22 Mar 2026 20:29:36
You have to take the good with the bad. They don't detract from each other. He'll always be a title-winning Reds manager, and nothing can take that away from him. For me, he'll be the one that tweaked what was there to achieve success, and then had everything laid out for him to go on and be an all-time great, but royally screwed it up after that very positive start.

22 Mar 2026 18:26:51
Carra please appear x.

22 Mar 2026 18:21:49
Hi all I hope everyone is doing good? Well every time that I go to post a rant one of the regular posters has beaten me to it. Look lad's I am as mystified and bewildered as you as to how Slot is still in a job. As for his total change in tactics I can only think he had some sort of breakdown or as Ed001 so elegantly put it-He must of hit his head on the booze cruise either way I can't explain it.

It's horrible to watch from where we were last season to now. The change should have happened ages ago so why is it taking so long is unforgivable. Anyway it will happen and we will be back lad's YNWA.

22 Mar 2026 19:51:19
Did you ever stop to think it's not so much a change in tactics, but a change in players that is the issue?

Sometimes the most obvious answer is the correct one.

Don't get me wrong, I think Slot should go either way, but the witch hunt is a bit pathetic.

22 Mar 2026 20:26:02
What do you mean by saying that changes in players are the issue? Slot is the one responsible for choosing who plays and who doesn't, so if that's what you mean, then it is clearly on him.

If you mean adding new players, we still have a good number of key players from last season's title-winning squad, and we've added 3-4 players who are good enough for a top-contending team. The cold, hard truth is that our squad is good enough to contend for the title, yet we're now fighting just to secure a Champions League place.

There's even a real possibility that we might not play in Europe at all next season if our current form continues.

If you have a good squad but many players are underperforming, whose fault is that? It's the manager/head coach, whatever you want to call it. Sometimes the most obvious answer is the correct one. Slot has simply not been good enough this season.

22 Mar 2026 20:35:44
VB, maybe so. Maybe not. A good manager would find a way to get the best out of the available squad. He'd have them scrapping for loose balls, and out-working the opposition. He'd have them in for training on an international break, even if it's mostly youth team players.



Sure, this is on the players too. But, again, we've all had that boss who sucked the living daylights out of us, and we were relieved to see the back of them. Not saying that's the case with Slot, but I wouldn't be shocked if it was.

22 Mar 2026 21:01:06
I will add that, at times this season, when we have needed a performance, we've found a performance. Not the rule, but the exception. The exception shows it's possible, but it's not enough for a team that should be fighting for honours every season. Slot reverts to type, time and time again. More lives than a litter of kittens.

22 Mar 2026 21:35:22
That's exactly what I said. Slot needs to go either way because he hasn't been able to get the new players integrated into a cohesive team.

It's not necessarily a change of tactics, I don't believe Slot wants them to play slow, boring football, and not create chances. Why would he?

It could just be that losing the players we have in Trent, Diaz, Darwin, and Jota, and replacing them with Frimpong, Wirtz, Ekitike, and Isak is more the reason than the tactics.



The players are good enough, but maybe not the same profile of the players we lost, especially without the ball. Slot has then been unable to integrate them into an effective team.

Either way, he needs to go. I just don't believe that the team is playing the way he wants it to, and you're right, that's on him.

22 Mar 2026 22:26:50
Varry, I totally agree. The cycle that we're in, where we hold our breath after a positive result so we can exhale all the expletives at the next insipid performance, is tiresome.

We're not a good team. We haven't been for much of the season. There are a multitude of reasons why it has worked out this way, but it is not all Slot's fault.

22 Mar 2026 22:49:14
This same topic has been on repeat since last October. It is every bit all Slot's fault. Zero debate about it.

22 Mar 2026 22:57:58
I'm most certainly a Slot out, but I'm not devoid of sympathy. If this was his first season he'd likely be given the benefit of the doubt, but after last season's success and the money spent, expectations were higher, and the change away from a strategy that worked, and the refusal to consistently return to it, has left people scratching their heads, and rightly so, given our performances when the team perform to the levels we all know and have seen they are capable of.
Now, I'm not saying there are not others who have contributed to our lack of form. Management backing, with the players he wanted for his system, perhaps? Some players not performing to their best out of spite, or knowledge he is already going? Maybe.

We will likely never know. Ultimately, though, like with any management role, not just football, if you can't motivate and organise what resources you have, then that's on you. That's how it works, always has and always will. He's the coach and he knows, as well as everyone else, that the buck stops with him. Within that context he has unfortunately failed and should be replaced. The only remaining question is when, and how much damage will have been done, or can be motivated during that remaining time.

23 Mar 2026 01:22:06
Shankleys ghost - just as an example mate. Ed1 said months ago that the summer recruitment was done so that we play the way Slot played in Holland.

So if that was that case, then I can't see why we bought two wide attacking fullbacks when Slot's Feyenord system thrived with inverted fullbacks.

Given signing players isn't Slot's responsibility because he is just the coach. So this isn't Slot's fault.

But yes, Slot is left with the challenge of making these players fit in.

Maybe he should change system to fit the players (I think so!)

But then it's like, why did we have a recruitment strategy intended for him to implement one style, sign players who aren't an exact match for that style with the pseudo-expectation that he would just change the system away from what the strategy was?

There are loads of other factors that doesn't make it all Slot's fault.

i understand that the coach is the easiest person to blame and ultimately he will carry the responsibility. But to pretend that the blame pie is one giant Slice of Slot is way off base for me.

22 Mar 2026 18:08:49
I'd play some of the youngsters now. They will have the fire in them. Surely Joshua Abe can compete with our current shower. The kid is a beast.

22 Mar 2026 17:36:22
Evening Ed001

Wrt Edwards, Hughes and Ward, who would you replace them with and why?

{Ed001's Note - I have to be honest, I am not sure. If Begiristain wants another job, I would think he would be a good option. Rangnick might be a good fit but as he worked at United I am not sure he would be given a chance by a large portion of the fanbase. In the short term, I would ask Graham if he would come back, to fill in while we find the right person and to help find them. He seems to have been a much bigger part of the successful recruitment than Edwards ever was.}

22 Mar 2026 19:31:03
Thanks Ed

If those guys are to be replaced, then let's just pray that the homework is done and we get the right people in

It does really seem that the club need a full overhaul, from top to bottom

22 Mar 2026 21:04:20
Ed002 used to speak highly of Paul Mitchell so that would be someone I'd look in to.

22 Mar 2026 17:18:02
Hi Ed's, great site. Looks like the club are going to wait it out until summer. I think they could have done something sooner but they are obviously not convinced that anyone who is available would do any better. I thought they had an opportunity to make a change a few weeks ago, I would have brought SG in until the summer.

Would any of you made a change and if so who would you have brought in to maximise what this group can do? Just a bit of fun, enjoy the remainder of the weekend.

{Ed001's Note - I would have made the change a few months back. If it was just interim, it would have to be Gerrard now, Dalglish would be better but I think he is too old now and it is a bit too much to ask of him.}

22 Mar 2026 18:14:40
There's two sides to this. If Alonso doesn't want to come to us now, when we need him, then screw him. But, if the board ain't sure bout Alonso n want to wait till the summer to see who's available, then if I was him, I'd say screw you.

22 Mar 2026 18:27:59
Or, Jimjim... maybe there is a clause, as has previously been said, that he cannot join another team this season that is still challenging for the CL crown.

I wouldn't put it past RM to demand something like that.

22 Mar 2026 18:36:23
Err, so cos someone will not do what you want, when you want it, he is screwed? Is this how you approach things in life? If that is it, then you are gonna be really disappointed a ton. Take a day off, man.

22 Mar 2026 19:28:15
Oli maybe were living very different lives I'm talking about managing Liverpool football club the greatest football club in the world! I'd die for this football club I wouldn't kill for it but I'd give my give life for this club! I don't expect players or managers to feel the same but I don't want anyone who doesn't feel what a privilege it is to be involved with this great club! But you your cut from a different clout! Shame theirs too many of your like that support our team

22 Mar 2026 20:05:00
Don't be an eedjit Jimjim, perfectly reasonable that Xabi wouldn't be allowed to manage someone else who may face RM in competition this year.

Go polish your 'Best Fan' crown - maybe someone in your household will care!

22 Mar 2026 20:57:35
Zed, I was replying to what Oli said, not what Jlc had said, and I stand by what I said. If the Liverpool job became available, I don't want anyone who wouldn't jump at it now! That's not too much to ask n no one on here knows what's in his contract, but if that is fact then fine, of course we'd wait.

But that has nothing to do with what Oli was implying. I'm glad I'm talking to the voice and rational for all Liverpool fans, as you clearly think you are. 🙄

22 Mar 2026 22:52:14
Ahahahahaha!

Your naive view of the world and contracts etc either means you're a kid, or a bitter (Ed025 excepted)!

Keep digging, son, it's comedy gold 😂

23 Mar 2026 08:50:08
Well you'd know more than me bout comedy zed with you being a clown n all