Liverpool Discussions

20 Jan 2026 15:05:05
If there is a massive clear out, and Alonzo is seen as a head coach, would that mean a new DOF or whatever the popular term is would be required?

Perhaps, some on german, knows the club, doesn't want to manage or coach?

Doubtful but would it make sense?

20 Jan 2026 14:42:24
Bit of fun, you can sign 1 defender,1 mid and 1 striker this window. go!

20 Jan 2026 13:37:06
It might be best to come back once the season ends and find out what happens to Slot! It's all becomimg so boring now!

20 Jan 2026 14:23:08
So boring that you thought you would start another thread about it?

Maybe if you want to read about something different you could encourage debate by starting a thread about a different topic?

20 Jan 2026 10:52:51
Just a thought and by no means I know what I am talking about or have inside information.
But, I see it as this.
We have 4 games,
21st Marseille
24th Bournemouth
28th Qarabag FK
31st Newcastle.
Then a 8 day break!
Regardless how those games go would that give the owners the opportunity to ask Slot to leave and bring in Alonso!
Then Alonso has had a little mini break in the sun! I mean, a few days in the sun and I am ready to come home! :) Surely he will be ready to go? All his staff from Leverkusen and Madrid are still unemployed.
Yes his first game will be Man city but what a start that could be!

Saying this in hope more than certainty but we are allowed to hope.

20 Jan 2026 14:59:51
Personally I'd want Alonso in ASAP, but I highly doubt he wants to come in this late in the season to pick up the pieces. I know it's a world cup year and there won't be much of a pre-season for those involved but still, but the Summer still presents him with more of a fresh start, it gives him time to get a feel for the squad and how to best implement his ideas. We're on a knife edge at the moment, a couple of losses could see us fighting to stay in the top half, and I imagine everyone involved is extremely wary of the fact that shaking things up could see us go either direction.

We desperately need Champions League and my guess is that all parties consider that the safest bet is to ride out the storm, as is. Unless things take a turn for the worse.

20 Jan 2026 10:12:05
Why do we want Slot to go? Are we really turning into that fan base. We won the league last year which was the peak for that squad. This team and squad need to develop. When we win the champipms league things will change.

20 Jan 2026 10:44:00
I admire your positivity but the way we are playing we wouldn't win the Conference League never mind the Champions League.

20 Jan 2026 10:46:26
Cant beat relegation teams but we're going to win the Champions League?! Who's your doctor and what does he prescribe? Asking for a friend.

20 Jan 2026 10:59:21
Appreciating what Slot achieved last year and not appreciating what is happening with the team this can be absolutely mutually exclusive thoughts and emotions.

I hate seeing well if you want him to go, what about last year.

Just my thoughts Irish. Hope you are well.

20 Jan 2026 12:14:39
I'm not actively revelling in the thought of sacking Slot, but it's hard to see where improvement is going to come from.

20 Jan 2026 14:06:11
Win the Champions League?. I'd love that but the odds of doing so must be more than when we had Djimi and Kewell in the team going by how we're performing currently.

20 Jan 2026 14:52:42
Slot has shown he'll play with the shackles off in CL. See the Inter and Real games. IMO he's saving energy in the PL and going all in for the CL this season. Is this correct? All will be revealed on Wednesday.

20 Jan 2026 09:27:11
Here's a scenario that is highly unlikely to take place. Would you take Alonso now and scrape 4th spot, or, finish outside top 4 and get Enrique in the summer?

Like I say, not going to happen, but I'm bored!

20 Jan 2026 11:08:14
Enrique won't be coming if we're outside top 4. He'll have far better offers at that point.

20 Jan 2026 12:06:40
VV, I say in my post it's unlikely to happen. I was just wondering what people's thoughts were, that's all.

20 Jan 2026 13:25:52
Tough one that Rome

I'd have to go for Alorique!

20 Jan 2026 13:31:56
Alonso and 4th but I would be ecstatic with either manager coming in whatever happens.

20 Jan 2026 13:40:44
Just on the manager issue Rome -

Not every season does the red Hot favourite come through and win the CL - we can testify to that.
With that in mind and by some stroke of sheer luck Slot wins the CL / gets top 4 and goes close in the FA cup - is he staying?

20 Jan 2026 14:36:50
It's a good question, Bristol. In the unlikely event of that happening, I think we'd stick with him. Certainly given the fact that our owners aren't trigger happy.

20 Jan 2026 14:51:05
If Slot wins the CL his approach to the season will be proven right, and us all wrong, and he has to stay. A PL and a CL in your first two consecutive seasons? You'd be mad to sack that manager.

20 Jan 2026 15:12:49
Bristol, if he gets that much luck and wins the league he should also do the UK, Irish and Euro millions lottos coz he'd probably be still. lucky enuff to win one or all of those.

19 Jan 2026 21:14:48
Nobody really knows when Slot will leave Liverpool or if he even will.

He could go on to turn things around and have a good run until the end of the season.

It could get worse from here on out, forcing FSG to make a move in order to save our season.

It's all guesswork.

19 Jan 2026 23:42:00
I think he'll go Berger, the pitch forks are out and the village idiots are charging at his gates. It's only a matter of time.

I'm not totally against it but care is needed. We don't want to become a reactionary club, there are reasons why we have dropped off this season and Slot's management is only one of them.

We just need to be sure that replacing him is taking us forward and not down the same rabbit hole that so many clubs have gone down and not resurfaced for years. If ever.

20 Jan 2026 02:40:27
A reactionary club is better than a passive one out of the CL places. Not a case of better the devil you know for me SD.

20 Jan 2026 11:00:03
Sean Dundee - Reactionary? He's kept his job for 2 months beyond what would have been considered reactionary, if Alonso was available back in November Slot would already be out of a job.

A great manager is a rare commodity, in our entire history we've had maybe 5, they're not easy to find, sometimes here's a little trial and error. But when you've been handed 400 million worth of talent and end up going backwards, some very serious questions have to be asked, and so far Slot has not provided the answers.

19 Jan 2026 09:08:58
Chelsea in talks for Jacquet, looks like another potential CB going by the wayside.

19 Jan 2026 09:26:54
I was always under the impression that our main target in terms of that profile of CB (early 20's, ready to play but also higher ceiling, scouted from a weaker league etc) was Joel Ordonez. I really hope we can do something there before the end of the window.

I understand the thought process behind the decision to wait for Guehi. It hasn't worked out, but hindsight is a wonderful thing right. With Ordonez though, there is no logic at all behind waiting until the summer. Get him in early to phase Konate out now. Then in the summer we only have to worry about a long term Van Dijk successor, instead of needing 2 CB's.

19 Jan 2026 11:30:53
And Leone should be back in the mix ready to be reintroduced for next season. Certainly gives younger options across all of the CB conundrums.

19 Jan 2026 13:47:17
With Konate rejecting another contract it makes the decision making look even worse. That's potentially three new centre backs needed, given that Gomez should be moved on due to chronic injury issues, Konate leaving on a free and Van Dijk also being at the end of his career. That's without mentioning the fact we also need a defensive minded midfielder and a winger.

19 Jan 2026 17:52:55
I really wonder who Konate thinks is going to come in and offer him big money.

19 Jan 2026 20:40:05
Surely if we're miles apart on terms we would have just sold him, and we wouldn't keep on negotiating if the other side isn't moving unless we think they're bluffing.

19 Jan 2026 22:41:04
How can we sell him Hugo, we have nobody to replace him?

20 Jan 2026 02:46:14
Let's hope Konate keeps rejecting contracts if the club are so inclined to renew him.

20 Jan 2026 07:16:50
Hugo, you can't sell a player if he doesn't want to leave and he wants to see his contract out. As for who'd pay him what he wants, he'll still have a choice of clubs to go to, I'd imagine Bayern would be interested as will Juventus (they love a free transfer), it won't just be the wages it'll be the signing on fee.

19 Jan 2026 06:34:58
Morning Eds, hearing that on the back of being current champions and our most successful manager over his first 60 games, FSG are thinking of offering Arne a well deserved new contract. They are impressed how he has stabilised us over the past 12 games, look well placed for a deep run in the CL, and Saturday's performance ( if not result) was back to the standards of the first two thirds of last season.

If Ibou, Cody and Mac were playing at the same level as then, we would have comfortably won 3-0, which would have been the fair result.

19 Jan 2026 07:52:59
"…well placed for a deep run in the CL"?

We aren't at all well placed for a run in the CL, as soon as we draw anyone half decent we're out. We can't beat Burnley at home and keep conceding cheap goals so how anyone can be delusional enough to think we good enough to win the biggest competition in club football is baffling. Slot hasn't fixed any of the issues that are affecting the team, still weak and soft in midfield and defence and have all the penetration of a eunuch at an orgy. Same rubbish different week.

19 Jan 2026 13:00:05
I'm by no means a fan of how we're currently playing but Carras recent revelation got me thinking whether we are being harsh.
At any level it's very difficult to gain instant success when integrating 5 new players at once. In my opinion the success of the previous year was down to him using a settled team as opposed to Klopps team.

Slot is clearly capable unlike how some want us to believe
He won the league. Klopp didn't the previous year so for anyone who says it was klopps team is unfair and I'm a huge Klopp fan.

He has tried different formations which at least shows he tried to adapt if not always with success. When he tried a very attacking formation at the very start of the season we were left short at the back. I can't help think that now some of the new players have settled he can look to return to this with adaptations.

Statistically we should have battered Burnley but didn't. Is that down to the coach always? I seem to remember Klopp struggling against low block teams and coming out with draws despite high stats post game. Some on here wanted him gone too!
My main gripe with Slot is the lack of set piece potency that we saw under Klopp.

Alonso may come in and work wonders but we really don't know. With Slot we have the benefit of assessing what he's done well and what hasn't gone to plan.

Given that Slot thumped Alonso, has mitigating circumstances of releasing and acquiring too many players at once, Jotas unfortunate death and the huge drop in form of our back 2, I can't help think he maybe deserves another season should we secure top 4.

I have a feeling his 3rd season will be what his 1st season was and his 2nd one should have been.

18 Jan 2026 22:39:13
Ed1 do you see slot making the end of the season? Or a change happening.

{Ed001's Note - hard to say as it comes down to results and performances. It is looking less and less likely though, he is turning the crowd against himself.}

19 Jan 2026 08:59:23
The booing at Anfield was the only time I can remember the crowd booing a manager. The last time we booed was when FSG announced a price hike of the tickets and the fans organised a walkout at the 77th minute about 10 years back. So it wasn't even directed at the manager or the players. Was Rodgers or Hodgson booed during their time?

19 Jan 2026 09:05:08
He knows he's getting the boot so I think he's just waiting for it - expect more nonsense statements from him, he's trying to force their hand to pull the trigger. Even he is probably wondering why they haven't sacked him yet.

19 Jan 2026 09:34:15
All we need now is for us to faff about more until we are 7th or 8th in the league and Xabi takes another job and this abysmal season will reach it's climax.

19 Jan 2026 04:16:20
Slot edward and Hughes all have 18 months left on their contract.

Interesting very interesting. Conspirator in me feels it is an orchestrated event. They all get the sack and rake in the moolah.

Xabi is obviously the first choice for us but i don't see how Hughes and edward can continue after this. They all have proved very very incapable of doing the job and running the club.
I think now they are just sitting to get the sack and secure their bags.

19 Jan 2026 09:00:00
I think the truth is far simpler and more obvious. They're all just out of their depth in their current roles.

19 Jan 2026 09:03:21
They all looked so incapable as Virgil lifted the Premier League trophy last season.

Sack them all and start again I hate being champions.

20 Jan 2026 07:06:14
We were champions last season Sean. We're also rans this season, hope you're enjoying that.

19 Jan 2026 03:39:08
I can see this management issue being resolved this week 🤞.