26 Nov 2025 22:20:50
Hell diddly no,
Whilst Slot prior to today had the nod from above to get through this, I wouldn’t be surprised if things have changed.
Iraola would appear to be the favourite, would take a relatively large fee to prize him away at this stage of the season.
A certain Jurgen, whilst I stand by him not being an option - I asked a question to someone close to his circle and I can’t believe I’m typing this but he will listen to anything the club has to say.
My opinion is that we will see a new face in the dugout before the new year. Interim options never really work out.
Sorry this is very speculative compared to my usual posts.
26 Nov 2025 22:31:35
Stupid sexy Flanders.
26 Nov 2025 22:32:57
Hi hope so! I would love klopp to come back and hope it happens.
26 Nov 2025 22:35:43
It’s gone on far too dang diddly long now. Thanks for the update Flanders.
26 Nov 2025 22:37:40
Love klopp . BUT he can't come back . can only see that working very short term . I don't know . if he rocks up after the west ham game . will be excited
Would rather him than going for irioala . that screams another BR to me . doing a great job making an average team look good . but will sink under the pressure of the crest.
Hate to say we prob have to wait to summer for anything meaningful.
It's been a bad calender year . and we won the league! . justbdoesnt make sense!
26 Nov 2025 22:38:44
If Klopp would listen then get talking, we need his man management and fire. Iraola is not providing that, this hell hole we're in right now needs more than just tactics.
26 Nov 2025 22:45:05
Big Sam would be an improvement on the Slot right now.
26 Nov 2025 22:47:05
Just not sure its the way forward for me Klopp, don't think it will ever be long term.
If he comes in short term, its a case of finding someone to replace the irreplacable.
26 Nov 2025 22:54:16
So we're bringing in iraola for an Areola.
26 Nov 2025 22:58:57
Get rid of Slot today. Don’t even wait another game - absolute joke. Get Klopp back til the end of the season. He will get this team playing and secure top 4. Then iraeola in summer if Klopp doesn’t want to stay.
Konate should never play for the club again. Evident for weeks and shows Slot’s weakness as a manager to keep playing him. He is costing us game after game.
26 Nov 2025 23:11:12
Give it Kloppo 'til end o' season!
26 Nov 2025 23:37:15
Said it in the chat. Klopp took over from Brendan in October 2015 and finished 8th that season. It’s 6 weeks further in to this season already.
He would need all his old backroom staff to come back in - unlikely. He would need a pre-season to get fitness levels up, that doesn’t happen half way through a season.
Plus - there’s Edwards. We know they’ve clashed in the past.
He won’t come back, Edwards would sanction him coming back and if he did come back it’s unlikely to change anything this season.
Appreciate the rumours Neddy.
26 Nov 2025 23:52:30
I honestly don't understand why people wouldn't want Klopp as an interim manager. He loves the club and his tactics and man management would light the fire our boys need to turn this season around.
I get people don't want a knee jerk reaction or to be in the position where we have to sack a manager mid season, but I don't want to be in the position we're in and see no hope that Slot can turn this around now. Maybe if he had shown adaptable after RM and villa results and continued with more positive tactics, but we've somehow gotten more ponderous and boring since then.
Unfortunately, the time has come.
27 Nov 2025 00:00:40
Ron, Klopp finished 8th in his first season because his ideas were new to the team, he sacked off the league for the Europa, plus the squad was grim. It's a completely different scenario.
27 Nov 2025 00:14:42
Slots exit is being considered. Klopp is not coming back.
Fabregas?
27 Nov 2025 00:14:39
Point is Babbity, Klopp’s methods are unique to him. He’s not going to change fitness levels in a few weeks whilst the season is on-going. He’s not going to rejuvenate Salah, Robertson and Virgil. His ideas will be new to Isak, Ekitike, Kerkez, Frimpong, Chiesa and Wirtz.
Gakpo and Grav didn’t exactly excel under Klopp.
You’re forgetting how we finished under Klopp, arguments with Salah on the sideline and players quitting.
He hasn’t got peak Salah, peak Mane, peak Virgil and peak Bobby.
27 Nov 2025 00:41:45
Klopp was never about coaching or making players better technically. He was about making them, and us, believe and getting them to put their bodies on the line, something that is completely lacking right now.
I personally don't think it would be a good move to bring him back.
He left for a reason. If he came in as an interim and turned it around there would be a clamour for him to sign up for another contract.
But looking at what is out there, I can't see anything that could potentially give us the kick he could.
27 Nov 2025 01:55:35
Abreast doing really well with Como.
27 Nov 2025 01:57:24
Klopp was never about coaching or making players better technically? Really?
27 Nov 2025 04:07:35
Klopp's strength has always been to forge a sense of camaraderie throughout the entire team. However, people often forget how different the football was during the latter parts of his time with us. He dropped the hard press of the team and favoured a more intentional build up in his latter years.
We've not been "gegenpressing" since we won the title in 2020. He was also visibly worn out by the end so I'm not sure he would be the success people think he would be. I don't want his legacy to be tainted so I think we should look forward to a new manager who can make this team perform to its highest potential.
27 Nov 2025 04:19:14
If we're making a change now, the only realistic move I can see happening is that we appoint an interim to see the season out. then buy us time to sort the long term manager.
27 Nov 2025 06:43:56
Not one for trigger happy decision, but if we do not make changes soon, there might soon be nothing to change for.
Drop Kerkez and bring back Robertson and we started winning, and then what do we do? We bring back Kerkez.
We are leaking goals, and there's problem. What do we do? Do the same thing and hope for different result.
FFS!
Kerkez should get nowhere near the team. He is a Sunday league footbaler. hit and run and run and fall.
If we do not play Gomez, and yet use the fact that he had only played so many minutes and is not fit to play, how does this work?
Againts PSV, the defence is horrendous.
See how VVD raise his hand, how Kerkez kept the only play with a threat in a move onside and yet stay on the wrong side of the player, how Jones attempted to cross into his own penalty box while defending, and how Konate continues to remain rubbish.
Still, I think our midfield is the issue, and there's where changes need to start.
Definitely I would not use the same players, play the same way and hope for different outcome.
I would have brought in Endo and work with Grav as double pivot to shore up the defensive side of things.
Macca can be dropped for now. Szobo can play ahead of that 2, or so can Wirtz, with Endo taking over from Endo.
Gakpo has been rubbish almost all season, apart from the odd games.
Bring nothing to the game.
Time for Chisea perhaps, who seems more hurt than the rest.
Talking abt Gakpo, need to talk abt that hopeless Kerkez. Every pass to Gakpo he did, will follow with him running in front of Kerkez right into the middle, and even the penalty box.
No width, no variation, and restrict Gakpo's option too.
Kerkez must be the most hopeless player I have seen in defence since Konchesky.
{Ed001's Note - sorry but that is utter crap - Kerkez is not the issue and you are making nonsense comments about him. He is nothing like Konchesky, you are making crap up. He has more ability in his right toe than that useless gimp had in his whole body. Bringing back Robbo didn't fix anything either, it was the reversion to Klopp's tactical approach that brought success.}
27 Nov 2025 07:12:58
Klopp as temp with Gerrard as assitant, hopefully preparing to step up. Our club does best when there is a deep connection between players, leadership and the fans.
27 Nov 2025 07:15:05
I said before. The huge Klopp gives is not simple. You need a man with emotional energy to pull it off, otherwise it's cringe. Klopp has that energy of general where troops willing to die for him. But i don't want too much damage to Slot career! Slot is great tactician.
We could go back to Roy Evans - Benitez set up.
27 Nov 2025 08:04:05
Klopp would turn this around in a flash and it’s perfect time with the run of games we have coming up.
By the time we got through these games the player’s fitness levels would be back to where they should be.
This is not form under slot this his his management style it slowly kicked in last season as the player fitness levels dropped and by February we where not competitive and even with our start we have not been this season we where lucky at the beginning of the season a lot of that was down to other teams not getting up to full fitness as the season had just started but as the season as go on and there fitness levels go up and ours stay the same we are second to every 50/ 50.
27 Nov 2025 07:45:29
BTS what on earth are you talking about.
Anyway if Klopp’s wife wants to manage us we take it. Anyone related to Klopp would be terrific.
27 Nov 2025 08:31:24
Kerkez doesn't get into the premier league team of the year for nothing. it's how he's coached now that's the problem. there's a good player in there somewhere.
27 Nov 2025 08:47:26
Well @Ed01, not saying that Kerkez is the issue. He is AN issue, but that is my opinion.
I agree it is a tactical approach that really rocked everything.
My though is that we still lacked defensive cohesiveness which can be provided by a functioning midfield, and of course this is a tactical problem.
Yesterday however, was a defensive horror show on top of that.
27 Nov 2025 10:05:33
Kerkez is not up to the standard the club expects you can say it is tactics but a pro must be able to adapt to all systems and i am afraid Kerkez can not adapt .
His defending is school boy and it mostly ends up in him doing a last ditch tackle .
Also VVD looks mentally fatigued he has not had a rest for months.
Grav has fell of a mountain along with maca, Gapko and Mo and Slot looks like a rabbit in the headlights and i have backed him to sort this mess out but loosing all hope .
Probably karma for us all laughing at efc and mufc for their poor seasons. YNWA.
27 Nov 2025 14:42:23
With the exception of Dom and probably Ekitike not 1 single player is performing to the level expected of them. It's unfair to target Kerkez saying that he should be able to adapt. What about all the other players, many of whom were good enough to win the title last season and who have not had to try and settle at a new club?
The team is broken and has not played well all season. A new manager needs to be seen as a reset for all of the players. If a new manager can come in and get the team playing some decent football we can then start to assess the new players properly. They are excellent players and to write them off in the current situation would be insane.