25 Oct 2025 23:06:36
Hello all,
I understand it's fragile times but I will stick by what I said.
Slot will not be the manager of LFC next season.
Van Dijk led a charge behind the scenes to get PMA injected into this team, Slot wasn't present.
Worrying times,
So, on the flip we would have a long queue of world class managers waiting in the wings, willingly prepared to leave current posts.
Ta.
25 Oct 2025 23:18:18
Thanks carra.
25 Oct 2025 23:20:14
Thanks Carra. Do you think he’ll last the whole season and we’ll only change then? It’s not looking good on the pitch.
25 Oct 2025 23:23:48
So you don’t see a possibility of slot turning it round carra?
25 Oct 2025 23:27:01
Issue has been since the PSG game we have been very poor, seems to me Slot became fascinated by the PSG setup and tried to replicate.
We have had massive investment and he has gotten players most other managers would dream of and it’s been incredibly poor to start.
Interested to see who we would possibly get in if it was to happen.
Iraola, Glasner, Enrique?
I also wonder if there is a possibility of Alonso, rumours from Spain if they lose heavily to Barcelona he will get the boot.
25 Oct 2025 23:29:30
Will he be the manager in January?
25 Oct 2025 23:30:20
Thanks, Carra.
Absolutely gutted about that performance tonight. Looked like a group of players who didn’t want to be there.
25 Oct 2025 23:31:20
I have no idea who these world class coaches waiting in a queue might be. Very concerned.
25 Oct 2025 23:37:24
Thanks Carra do you think they will give him till the end of the season things are getting ugly.
25 Oct 2025 23:40:21
Ed1, you think Slot have enough credit in him to survive whatever this is? If this continue, we will be out of title race even before the christmas period. I seriously don't understand how we manage to strengthen the team massively during the transfer window but also manage to make the team look weak and lost.
{Ed001's Note - only if he turns it around fairly quickly.}
25 Oct 2025 23:42:45
Thanks Carra, it's not looking good. I think slot will be fired.
25 Oct 2025 23:46:09
Who do you think will get the managers job Carra? Thanks for all your info ?.
25 Oct 2025 23:46:43
Thanks Carra your putting your neck out there and i for one appreciate your views and opinions. I don't think slot will be the manager come christmas if things continue. We have the squad but we seem ton have completely lost our identity, I'm not sure what's happened between last season and this but it appears Slot is really losing the players fast i just hope we don't become the new chelsea and sack managers left right and center.
Slot seems ton have also lost the fans which is never good, klopp had a similar run in his second last season but fans forget that yet pray for him to come back, i like slot but something seems off.
25 Oct 2025 23:47:44
Cheers Carra. Do we know who we could end up going for? Any chance we may be approaching klopp again?
25 Oct 2025 23:51:41
Crazy to think Slot has lost the dressing room but based on what we are seeing he has no clue.
The amount of chances we give away trying to play intricate passes in the middle of the park and getting broken on. It’s all well and good Wirtz being able to play one touch passes in tight spaces but if his team mates can’t he needs to stop putting them under pressure.
Kerkez has lost all confidence and doesn’t help Virgil barking at him all game while playing poorly himself.
Wirtz way too light weight atm. Salah a shambles. Only player to emerge with credit today was Jones.
Something drastic needs to change and if that’s the manager so be it. We can have a bad season but must make top 4.
25 Oct 2025 23:53:00
Jurgen back after his recent comments?
25 Oct 2025 23:54:01
A long queue of world-class managers doesn't exist in the world full stop. The only ones I would take are Xabi, Luis Enrique and Flick and none of them are going to happen. People need to be really careful what they wish for.
25 Oct 2025 23:57:34
Forgive me, but what does a “PMA injection” mean?
Thanks for the update Carra.
25 Oct 2025 23:57:51
Lost the dressing room? I work in Sales, I'm a top performer. Even a scent or whiff that my manager is taking overdue credit for my performance or the team performance, I want them gone.
26 Oct 2025 00:04:03
What's the meaning of PMA
And why? Is it because of locker room problems or disappointment from tactics?
26 Oct 2025 00:17:16
Iraola please.
26 Oct 2025 00:18:21
Appreciate the info Carra and don't doubt you sir. This is only my own personal opinion on the matter.
I really really like Slot. The amount of work and sacrifice he put in last year was incredible. He is living away from his family for crikes sakes. He will figure it out but he has no chance if the players got their panties in a bunch.
What are the players cribbing about. They would want to look at their own performances . Slot has to choose between many poor performers right now and some might be performing marginally better than the ones he is picking but it's slim pickings with those on their game at the moment.
I hope Slot turns it around and comes out stronger for it.
Not sure what world class managers are out there anyway. Is Enrique going to leave PSG? If not, Id rather stick with Slot.
I hope Slot comes through and the players start coming through for him.
26 Oct 2025 00:41:19
Who/ what is PMA? Ta Carra.
26 Oct 2025 01:09:51
Thanks for the info Carra, as always its much appreciated. If Virgil though has led the charge for PMA then he needs to show it on the pitch, he's been a mere shell of himself in the last 6 weeks so imo its not all on the manager but ultimately the buck stops with him.
I just can't get my head around how poor we've been, there's something seriously wrong. I hope Slot can fix it but im running out of confidence now. I really don't know how we are in this situation. I've said a lot this evening on here but ultimately I'm lost for words.
26 Oct 2025 01:18:24
Does not surprise me in the slightest. The only shock for me, is he’s still here.
Unwilling to change, Ultimately will be sacked.
26 Oct 2025 01:23:20
Thanks Carra.
But, I was wondering, what is PMA?
26 Oct 2025 01:33:06
PMA. Positive Mental Attitude. How about they just do the basics and give 100%! All well and good having meetings about PMA and clear the air talks! Work your socks off, you're playing for Liverpool lads, everyone of us here would love to be in your shoes!
26 Oct 2025 05:01:36
As a unit we are too easily bullied at the moment, the gk keep kicking the ball out n is lacking composure, midfield has no physicality n is leaving the defence with no protection, gakpo contributed nothing against Brentford, mo can't beat whoever he is up against, wirtz seems lost, only player to come out with credit in last 5 games has been szboz, macca seems unfit, I would try 3-5-2 with vvd gomez konate
Salah szboz grav macca Wirtz
Gakpo/ chisea Etikite/ isak.
26 Oct 2025 03:33:14
I feel for Slot I really do. I want him to be successful. But his post match comments are pretty ominous in saying that he has "no answer" to opposition long balls and low blocks. We played more "long balls" than United and Brentford. Very concerning and I don't see this ending well for him. Massive bump down to earth here after last season. But that's 26 out of a possible 51 points last 17 games. So it's not just this season that we've been struggling.
Eds/ Carra can u comment on Slot not being included in the meeting? Are there suggestions that Slot is losing the backing of some of the players? Thx.
{Ed001's Note - it is a very common thing for players to have those kind of meetings, but there are clearly unhappy signs. Ekitike blanking Slot and celebrating with Chiesa when he scored against Frankfurt spoke volumes. There is very much a feel of Slot losing his way and the players.}
26 Oct 2025 07:13:32
November fixtures look tough for a team playing like we are.
26 Oct 2025 07:22:33
Thanks Carra.
I honestly hoped (and still hope) that Slot can turn this around, but i think the dye is cast.
11 defeats in the last 24 competitive games - 7 in the last 17 PL games - is not a blip.
Seems like he’s lost the dressing room and it won’t be long before the money men start getting twitchy about potentially not qualifying for the CL next season season.
Shame, but it’s a ruthless business.
26 Oct 2025 07:38:29
I think he has one more league game. Lose that badly and he’s gone. Hopefully FSG will be having talks privately with a few managers including Iraola. We can’t have a go at the owners here, they gave huge funding.
This is on our current manager. Knowing you’ve got problems against low blocks and counters attacks and not solving it, just doing the same thing over and over again, and failing is just madness.
26 Oct 2025 08:04:28
The issue started after our loss to PSG last season.
Slot became so obsessed in trying to make us play like PSG forgetting that Aston villa almost knocked out PSG just by being more physical.
I will always say that the only way to inculcate Wirtz properly into our starting 11 is by playing him as a LW with him moving infield amd not giving him the kind of freedom we give him now.
We also need all our players to learn how to press properly and win our duels and that is why Salah being on the bench is non-negotiable.
We can't keep having passengers in our teams.
And more importantly, for now, Dom has nothing to do at RB because he's our best pressing midfielder.
For now, our midfield 3 should always be Dom, Curtis and Grav.
Robbo should start ahead of Kerkez and Gomez should start at RB to add more defensive solidity to our game.
Iraola would be the choice pick, i believe.
26 Oct 2025 08:09:49
Buying Isak was a big mistake. Slot favouring certain out of form players is a big mistake but the person who needs to take a long hard look at himself is Virgil Van Dijk.
Van Basten said it midweek, he is not a ferocious leader. The only player he bullies is Kerkez when it is the likes of MacAllister, Salah and Gakpo he generally needs to be bawling out.
However yesterday, Szoboszlai was awful, Ekitike was poor and Salah had the worst 80 minutes of a player in a Liverpool shirt since Konchesky. I hate to say it but we deserved to lose yesterday. We are so easy to play against, everyone knows what Gakpo is going to do, what Salah is going to do and all they have to do is wait and then pick up the ball. We do not win 50/ 50 challenges anymore, we do not contest the breakdown and teams run through us.
We either need to set the team up around Wirtz style of play or what was the point in buying him? The tendency to hoof the ball to Salah is a habit that they need to get out of and fast.
Yes, Salah scored at the end but that was polish on a turd of a performance.
It is going to be a long hard season and a new manager will not change anything until certain players egos are given a fundamental shake to the core. Even if it happens, Konate (who has already checked out to RM) and Van Dijk have a tendency to sulk rather than produce a positive performance and Salah is done, shot, finished.
Big contracts were a big mistake. We need to learn from this, it is not Edwards way and we should have held firm and suffered because we are suffering anyway. The beauty of hindsight, hey?
{Ed001's Note - how is it not Edwards' way? The last time he was involved, he handed out a bunch of big contracts and left us hamstrung with FFP until the Sauds stepped in and bailed us out.}
26 Oct 2025 08:33:38
Might be an unpopular opinion, but at the moment I wouldn’t like to see Slott gone. I’d give him the season at least, these days of boom and bust are crazy, win the league last year and gone the next after 10 games, seems madness to me. I suppose if there’s big callings out the. That might be another thing, but I think Slott has earned the right to be given time. There’s been a hell of a list of change to the starting 11 since last year, and certain key players seem to have fallen off a cliff, MacAlistwr, VVD, Konate, Mo, for example. If that’s due to his coaching or set up then I guess he should carry the can for that, but they seem to be making individual errors left right and centre.
We also been on the end of some tough refereeing calls that could have gone the other way (I’m not necessarily we’ve had wrong calls, but calls that could have easily gone the other way and probably not been overturned, the two pens for yesterday for example and the head injury against utd) . Gakpo missing a virtual open goal against utd at the end too. I know we’ve not played well, I can’t argue with that, but fortune has deserted us for a little while too.
26 Oct 2025 09:45:55
Lets hold our hands and go through this times together.
26 Oct 2025 09:53:05
should FSG and Slot hire back Heitinga? The defence was much organised when Heitinga was around, he left for Ajaz (now 2nd in Eredivisie) . Gio Van Bronkhorst is currently Heitinga replacement.
I remember 2nd half of season we slowed down in goal scoring and won by odd goal, that's because our defence was organised and held up well even under huge pressure.
FYI:
GVB was previously sacked as coach by even Guangzhou China.
26 Oct 2025 09:56:41
Ed01, pretty sure Ed02 said it was Jurgen who pushed for the big contracts for Hendo etc and that is why Edward’s walked but I am happy to be corrected.
{Ed001's Note - Edwards had the decision making power.}
26 Oct 2025 10:12:16
I don't think anybody wants to see him gone. He has cemented himself in Liverpool folklore by winning the league. But as much as I love him the worrying thing is that there is no light at the end of the tunnel. If we could see palpable evidence that there is a plan that we are trying to execute and we are just falling a bit short here and there as we go through growing pains then I would 1000% back him to my last breath, the problem is not only are we bad on both sides of the ball we look unfit and listless (well, every player except maybe Dom) .
And yes, I take your point that we have had bad luck. When you're not playing well, you need small things to go for you, or at least you need small things to not go AGAINST you. If we got a pen and they didn't, then it might very well have been a somewhat different game though we would have been just as vulnerable to their throws and set pieces anyway. If we had scored any of the countless big chances we had created despite being awful in all the games we lost then we would be looking at a different situation now, though it also wouldn't paper over the massive flaws we have tactically and physically.
So yes, I can agree with the entirety of what you wrote, but only to a certain degree.
26 Oct 2025 10:40:27
Sadly I think Slot has been “found out”. That happens and top managers make adjustments.
There are no signs of any adjustments from Slot.
When we’re talking about stoppage time goals and rough refereeing decisions then that’s a signal the team is not controlling games - and we’re definitely not. Every win has been lucky, we could be looking at an even worse record had we been unlucky so far.
The team is set up wrongly IMO. We’re too easy to defend against and we’re too open at the back.
Salah has either checked out of this manager or he’s washed, either way I think we’re now open to bids for him.
Virgil - maybe his time is nearly over.
I think this November run is going to be decisive for Slot. We could be struggling in the CL and the PL.
26 Oct 2025 12:08:20
I think he deserves atleast the season and a chance to turn this around as I do belive he is a good manager. There has been lots of changes this summer and I hope he can find his best team and the best style of play that suits the team not necessarily the style of play he want's. At the moment he isn’t helping himself I admit he has his favourites and playing players who are abysmal week after week Kerkez and Salah should not be in the first 11 at the moment.
Anyway chin up lads where the current champions and things could be a lot worse onto the next
Peace out up the reds.
26 Oct 2025 12:57:45
It depends who's vision for tactics and style this is. Working as a head coach is more tricky if the DOF is choosing players who do not fit in with your system.
Whilst We wanted to evolve the way we play, as football styles evolve every 5-10 years and we need to stay fresh and up-to-date, if what is being put on you is very different to how one usually does things, something has got to give.
I do not like Slot's whining about long balls and low blocks, if you are a top coach you talk through your training and with the improvements made. He has also thrown a couple of players under the bus, which Jurgen never did . This does not bode well for team spirit etc.
Slot does not sound supremely confident and so far has no solutions, despite the huge outlay.
If we loose to City, Real and Palace, i reckon he may be at risk, although we are not a reactionary club. The problem is the complete lack of identity and buy in from the players to whatever Slot is pushing.
26 Oct 2025 13:11:05
PMA = Positive Mental Attitude.
I think Slot has lost the Players. They can see the tactics are not working, Slot is not playing players in form, ie: Chiesa.
VVD is trying to rally the troops.
26 Oct 2025 16:04:31
There have been a lot of changes. Remember when Buck brought in 6 or 7 (DON'T! ) players in one window and it disrupted everything. And I genuinely feel that the loss of Jota is bound to have taken a sharp edge from those players who knew him so well. I am not saying that Slot will survive but I hope he is given time to try and create his own team from these players.
One thing that is perfectly clear is that either he does not have the right system for the players or he does not have the right players for the system.
26 Oct 2025 22:06:44
ed1 - I rekon the slippery slide started when Slot was partying in Ibiza when the season hadn't even finished.
I thought back then, that was a break of character from the calm and stoic Slot that we've seen. But then I thought, hmmmmm, maybe that is his actually personality. Wasn't a good look to me at the time.
{Ed001's Note - I was not impressed with that, the whole squad basically went on holiday with him. Save all that for the off season.}